DENVER -- Ke'Bryan Hayes sat at one stall, towel sagging over his head, staring straight ahead. Bryan Reynolds sat a couple stalls away, slumped back and still bandaged up from the strained oblique that's lifted him out the lineup. And strolling along in their direction, but no more or less engaged, was the ghost of Roansy Contreras, who's still with the team on the alleged-taxi-squad basis even though he was technically optioned to the minors a week ago.
There. They matter, those three.
Anyone else?
I paused at the portal to the visitors' clubhouse one last time following the Pirates' 13-2 thrashing by the Rockies on this steamy Friday night at Coors Field and gave it a second try.