.500, for any Pittsburgh Pirates fan this number has more significance than 715, 406, or 4256. In the 19 years since Pittsburgh fans have seen a winning baseball club Major League Baseball has added four new teams all of which have made it to at least one world series, everyone else in the NL Central has won the division at least once, an 86 year curse has ended, and ten different teams have been crowned champions. In that time Pittsburgh as also had 22 first round draft picks (including the number one overall pick three times) and have developed only one All-Star out of the bunch, current outfielder Andrew McCutchen.
McCutchen did all he could to end the losing streak in 2011, carrying the suprise Pirates to a winning record as deep as July but with not a lot of help behind him outside of developing second basemen Neil Walker they fell back down to earth. ForPittsbugh fans .500 would mean a future, no more seasons of being out of it before it really has a chance to start. But A...
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