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Via ace St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist and St. Louis radio host comes this tidbit: cheap soccer jerseys   The Pirates have gone 34-16 in their past 50 games (winning 16 of their past 21). In those 50 games, the team that looked like it would set offense back 100 years has averaged a robust 5.3 runs per game; Andrew McCutchen has hit .399/.456/.720 during that stretch, cheap soccer jerseys   with 15 homers. We're just going to until he stops destroying everything in his path.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh's pitching keeps cruising along, with the Pirates allowing the third-fewest runs per game in the National League. How havecheap jerseys for sale    they done it? As Pirates fan notes, the Pirates don't have a single homegrown pitcher in their rotation. James McDonald came over from the Dodgers in exchange for two months of Octavio Dotel; the Yankees dumped A.J. Burnett on Pittsburgh like he was a raging virus; cheap jerseys free shipping  Erik Bedard was a cheapie free-agent acquisition; Kevin Correia's on the third team in his 10th major league season; and Jeff Karstens landed in the Steel City four years ago in a deadline trade that netted four prospects cheap jerseys online   and cost the immortal Damaso Marte and Xavier Nady. In fact, baseball's other biggest surprise team, the A's, don't have a single homegrown starter in their rotation either. Yet another reminder   cheap jerseys wholesalethat there are a million ways to build a successful ballclub.