Kevin Gorman
speaker
2,591 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
Kevin Gorman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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bottom of the order for one, and with Nick Gonzalez playing shortstop.
But Nick Gonzalez and Jared Triolo could be interchangeable.
I don't know that they have another third baseman.
So there's a concern there that if Jared Triolo is playing shortstop, who's playing third base and how much you're downgrading there.
But that's what the lineup would look like based on what I've seen here in the first two weeks of spring training.
I don't think so, but I do think it's important that they kept Alika at shortstop in the minors as a guy who could play short to third and second base that has some major league experience so that if they're making a call up, if somebody's either injured or not performing, that they don't have to call up a guy who has no major league experience.
I think that's key.
to have guys like that at AAA that have major league experience, and you're not calling up some rookie who's wide-eyed, making his debut, and is completely overmatched, which has been kind of what the Pirates have been doing the last three or four years.
His numbers are far better at the leadoff spot last year than they were anywhere else in the lineup.
That's where he generated a lot of his power numbers in April and May when he was playing good baseball before he kind of fell off a cliff.
What he showed us yesterday is why I put him there.
He's a guy, if he can get on base, gets on base field, second base, fly ball moves him over to third, a
a sharp hit to right field by Ozuna scores Cruz, and you've got a guy who's capable of stealing bases.
You've got a guy who's capable of going from first to third or even first to home, you know, depending on it.
And you've got some guys behind him who can drive him in now.
You know, it's not just Brian Reynolds, but you've got Lyle Reynolds,
O'Hearn and Ozuna.
And so I like O'Neal Cruz with some, with some guys behind him that he's not just out there, you know, trying, trying to score runs on his own, but he can essentially just use his speed to his advantage.
But I also, you know, if you're not batting him first, where are you batting him fifth or sixth?
And I feel like for the power that he has, that's way too low in the order.
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