{"id":446515,"date":"2026-02-03T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446515\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:23:08","slug":"sb-nation-reacts-results-is-this-the-year-the-pirates-get-back-over-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446515\/","title":{"rendered":"SB Nation Reacts results: 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.\u00a0<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>\u00a0to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Last week\u2019s question asked about the record for the Buccos. The last time the Pirates were .500 or better was 2018. However, the Bucs have one the league\u2019s best pitching staffs, and after finally adding some offense, the Bucs seem poised to actually score some runs this season as well. Will all of that add up to finally getting over the .500 hump? Here\u2019s what you had to say:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/72ec9ad82a8630da12d797418f782924.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A full two-thirds of voters are taking the over .500 for the Bucs. Add in the 10 percent of you who think the team finishes right at .500, and that\u2019s 77 percent of voters who think the Bucs will be .500 or better this year. That\u2019s more optimism than we\u2019ve had in a long time. Let\u2019s hope the Bucs can meet our expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thanks for voting. We\u2019ll be back soon with more Reacts.<\/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":446516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2319,363,10000,2240,99,209881],"class_list":["post-446515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-mlb","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports","tag-the-bucs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446515","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=446515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}