2020 Pirates Win Predictions

Well, we can't let the fact that humanity may not survive interfere with tradition, now can we?  The Pirates shall play only 60 games this year in a season that makes one wonder about the propriety of caring about baseball.  We decided to go ahead and predict how many games the hometown team will win this year.  It's a rebuilding year for the franchise, and the way the union and league negotiated with a global pandemic as the backdrop, even if planet earth lasts another year, Major League Baseball may not.  Heck of a swan song for America's pasttime.

For reference, the 2019 bar on the chart below shows how many games the Pirates will win this year if they repeat last season's forgettable win percentage of .426 (and that's even rounded up using traditional rounding).