The Strategies of Pittsburgh Pirates Club Analysis

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10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_153How to use a DOI?

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Pittsburgh Pirates; Financial history; Revenue; Pitch framing; Catchers; Baseball theory

Abstract

The Pittsburgh Pirates have one of the lowest baseball payrolls, with the management being given only a $15 million budget in 2013 to bring in more baseball talent. Between the years 2007 and 2008, The Pittsburgh Pirates made about $29.4 million which is recorded in the financial statement documents. Even though some clubs disagree vehemently on the fact, it has become evident that Pittsburgh has spent relatively less time compared to its opponents and also evidently in the won-loss records posted. The trend shows that the team has been gaining regardless of the losses that it has been recording which still raises the question of 'does the team lose to gain more revenue' and in case the team decided to be winning, would it gain more or it would lose its consistent track of increasing trend of the revenue. Pittsburgh Pirates have utilized a skill that hasn't been used to measure the capability of players before - the Pirates used pitch-framing data to identify catchers with this skill, Framing refers to the method in which the pitched ball is received from the pitcher for presenting the pitch to the umpire in an increasing likelihood manner; hence the pitch ball being called a strike. Some of the top catchers of the team include Ralph Kiner, Honus Wagner, Willie Stargell, and Pie Traynor. The team is known to have low payments to the players and employees to save more money.

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