Welcome to Bucco Breakfast, a new daily morning feature designed to help Pittsburgh Pirates fans through the offseason. Each day we’ll roll out a quick topic designed to spark conversation as well as provide some interesting baseball reading from around the web.
For this week’s Bucco Breakfast menu, we will look at how each Pirates’ starting pitcher earned his strikeouts in 2018. Today’s subject is Joe Musgrove.
Musgrove struck out an even 100 batters in his inaugural season in Pittsburgh. His K/9 (7.80) and K% (20.6 percent) were both down from 2017, though a subpar July in terms of striking hitters out brought those numbers down a bit.