Pirates Face PB 2-8, One of 22 Upgraded Pitchers

The Pirates will be caught up with the rest of the league after their 4th home-and-home series, this one with the Dodgers. Unfortunately the need to face Julio Urias first, who is one of 22 pitchers upgraded based on their 2022 WAR (Wins Above Replacement).

These pitchers now all have their PB in red in the set of cards, in Urias case a PB 2-8, while still allowing singles up to 23 and only 4 walks allowed (43-46). If a team has a completely new card then we put the entire card in red, such as Trevor McGill in the Brewers set, as he was traded from Minnesota. Our hope in doing this is that if you've already printed your cards then you can just write in "2-8" by Urias or others. 

Statis-Pro originally would upgrade certain pitchers from the PB determined purely by their ERA (or FIPs) if they had a certain number of Wins on the season. As Wins became a less used stat, I stopped using that. However, it occurred to me the logic behind inventor Jim Barnes doing this made sense - but it made more sense to use WAR (Wins Above Replacement). Therefore if a pitcher had a 2022 WAR of at least 4.5 then they must be at least a PB 2-8. If their WAR was at least 3.0 then they need to get at least a PB: 2-7. Below are the pitchers who we upgraded in the game.

Team	Upgraded Pitcher due to WAR	Original	Upgrade
ARI	Zac Gallen	2-7	2-8
ARI	Merrill Kelly	4-7	2-7
ATL	Max Fried	2-7	2-8
ATL	Kyle Wright	4-7	2-7
CHW	Dylan Cease	2-7	2-8
CIN	Alexis Diaz	2-6	2-7
CLE	Triston McKenzie	4-7	2-7
COL	Daniel Bard	2-6	2-7
HOU	Cristian Javier	4-7	2-7
KCR	Brady Singer	2-7	2-8
LAA	Tyler Anderson	2-5	2-7
LAD	Julio Urias	4-7	2-8
LAD	Tony Gonsolin	2-6	2-8
MIA	Sandy Alcantara	2-7	2-8
NYY	Nestor Cortes	4-7	2-7
SDP	Yu Darvish	4-7	2-8
SDP	Michael Wacha	2-6	2-7
SFG	Logan Webb	2-7	2-8
TEX	Martin Perez	4-7	2-8
TOR	Alek Manoah	4-7	2-8
TOR	Chris Bassitt	4-7	2-7

From best to worst, each pitcher can be a PB 2-9, 2-8, 2-7, 4-7, 2-6, 2-5 or worst 2-4.

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