ST. LOUIS -- You know, maybe everyone's right.
Maybe the Pittsburgh Baseball Club's 134th season, which formally sets its strange stage here tomorrow night before an empty Busch Stadium, will be every bit the disaster so many expect.
Maybe the Pirates won't win a third of their 60 games, won't so much as sniff one of the now-16 spots in Major League Baseball's expanded playoffs, and won't even match anyone's definition of 'getting better,' the one phrase Ben Cherington, Derek Shelton and all on the inside cite as the chief goal for 2020.