{"id":432798,"date":"2026-01-27T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/432798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:22:07","slug":"vote-is-this-the-year-the-pirates-get-back-over-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/432798\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Is this the year the Pirates get back over .500?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Pirates fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Pittsburgh Pirates were last over .500 in 2018. We\u2019ve been waiting eight years now for them to return to winning baseball. With Paul Skenes still on the roster and some improved hitting, is this finally the year? Our question is asking, do you expect the Pirates to be over .500 this season, under .500, or right at .500?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cast your vote, tell us in the comments. We\u2019ll be back in a few days with the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,10000,2240,99],"class_list":["post-432798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}