Welcome back, baseball fans. There is reason for optimism. The surging Pirates get Starling Marte back tonight from his 80-game steroid suspension. There also are many concerns remaining with 69 games to go this season. All questions are sic’d. If you have a question for next week’s mailbag, send it to snesbitt@post-gazette.com or to @stephenjnesbitt on Twitter.
Here we go.
Brian: will cutch get to 3,000 hits?
Stephen: This is fine and fair question, Brian, and my guess would be “no.”
Andrew McCutchen’s RBI single Sunday was his 1,400th career hit, and another single Monday brought him 99 hits from the halfway point in his question for 3,000.