Most people may look back on him with bad feelings, but you must remember that is only twenty-two years old and definitely has a future in the Pittsburgh pitching staff. The second pitcher that I referred to would be another former first round pick, Brad Lincoln. He came to the Hill City in the month of July and mad eight starts for the green and gold. You could talk about his 1-5 record, but to truly understand his impact, you might want to look at his 4.75 ERA and twenty-nine strikeouts in only eight games. If he would have just got a little run support, he might have been looked at as a future all-star. And to finish off the pitching, I have to end with the bullpen. If I had to point out the one issue with the team this year, it would be these guys. They ended up with nineteen losses and what I can only imagine to be one skyrocket of an ERA. But the offense tried to overcome the shortcomings on the mound; they had eighty-nine home runs and six-hundred RBI. But it just wouldn’t be enough to power a team that played in a pitching heavy league. Some guys I would like to point out include Negrych, who lead the league in average and was the only Cat in the All-Star game, Keel, who lead the team in home runs, and Angel Gonzalez, who had the most stolen bases on the team with nineteen. Some of the other mainstays on the team include Kent Sakamoto who had a crazy one hundred and twenty-four strikeouts. I often referred to him as Kent ‘Strike’amoto, because of that stat. Jamie Romak, who only played in seventy-seven games, led the team for most of the year in home runs with eighteen.

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