The Pittsburgh Pirates decision to dismiss Derek Shelton to just 38 games from the season may have surprised it in and around Baseball, but not the Star launcher Paul Skenes.
“We are 12-26,” said journalists the recruit of the National League of the National League a few hours before Pittsburgh improved at 13-26 with the victory of Friday on Atlanta. “Someone must be held responsible. And unfortunately, right now, it’s him.
“It’s just like that. But I do not know that this corrects the root of the problem, that is to say that we must play better.
Skenes, a peeling feeling and the boyfriend of Instagram Livvy Dunne celebrity, is certainly not the problem.
Although its record is only 3-4 for the year, Skenes ranks 20th in the majors with an average of 2.77 made and has an impressive whip of 0.95 (walks and safety by Manche), which is better than all the Hurlers except 10 this season.
On the contrary, most of the problem is based on the worst attack on pirates, where the new manager Don Kelly will have bread on the plane for him.
Skenes, a peeling feeling and the boyfriend of Instagram celebrity Livvy Dunne, is certainly not the problem at Pittsburgh, where he currently has the 11th best whip of MLB
The pirates dismissed the director Derek Shelton (photo) and replaced him by Don Kelly
Don Kelly is now 1-0 as Pittsburgh Pirates Manager after Friday’s victory in Atlanta
The native of the Pittsburgh region has spent the last two more and more decades to create an improbable story of success that has transported him from a liberal arts college in the city center to almost a decade in the big leagues as a service player who has obtained more intelligence than innate talent.
Now comes a very different task but not less intimidating than any Kelly faced as a player: trying to find a way to breathe life into the season of his hometown.
The pirates of the last place are a waste, on and off the field. On Thursday, the managing director Ben Cherington dismissed and presented a mop in Kelly, asking the club’s longtime bench coach to bring part of his “ heart of his teacher ” to the replacement of Shelton.
It is a large humiliating and exciting part for someone who grew up 5 miles south of the Three Rivers stadium and used for Trick-Or-Trame at the Maison du Manager of the Jim Leyland renowned temple in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s.
So there were butterflies while Kelly went to PNC Park on Friday before the start of the Pittsburgh weekend series against Atlanta. A touch of anxiety too.
These assaults will soon disappear while Kelly, aged 45, tries to corpse more an underperforming list which did not play as the group that the most in the organization felt was about to conclude at the start of the season six weeks ago.
The pirates took a small step, very small – in the right direction in the beginnings of Kelly, using a pair of circuits from the bottom of the range and six lanches of Bailey Fmeter to lead the brave 3-2.
Kelly received the usual post-match celebration, being sprayed in icy water that did not attenuate his enthusiasm after one of the strongest performances in Pittsburgh this season.
“It is sure to say that I have the impression that everyone was playing a little for (Kelly) tonight,” said Falter.
At least one fan of pirates joked on Livvy Dunne by replacing Derek Shelton in Pittsburgh
Influencer and model of Livvy Dunne swimsuit showed his silhouette in a bikini on a beach
Dunne and her sister, Julz, crossed the waves of southern Florida hunting for a house
At least one fan of pirates joked saying that Dunne replacing Shelton at Pittsburgh.
“Already a fan of his replacement,” wrote the user X alongside a false graphic saying that Dunne was the new pirate manager.
While Skenes works at the start of what seems to be a brutal season in Pittsburgh, Dunne struck the sand of Hutchinson Island in Florida, where she was photographed in a leopard print bikini.
Fresh out of the university, Livvy begins with herself after having called a career on her stay in gymnastics.
An injury suffered in his last college season led to the fifth year of senior gymnasts deciding to focus more on his career on social networks and the model than sports.
This does not mean that we will see no less livvy in the world of sport.
Earlier this month, Dunne was spotted in Churchill Downs for Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby.
