Welcome to Bucco Breakfast, a new daily morning feature designed to help you 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.
The Pittsburgh Pirates used to be a shifty bunch. They were certainly not the first team to employ shifts regularly, of course. Yet they played an integral role in the early Clint Hurdle-era years.
As was (and still is) the case with many analytically-inspired innovations the Pirates have implemented, the rest of MLB seems to have passed the club by.