Ray Searage deserves all the praise, multiplied many times over, and even then he deserves a cherry wrapped in a bright red bow on top.
Hey, let's set off a whole barge of Zambelli fireworks up there, because there might not be any individual at any level of the Pirates who's had more of a direct hand in this franchise's ascent since he took over as pitching coach late in the 105-loss 2010 season.
As Neal Huntington mentioned to me recently, "Honestly, people don't even know everything that Ray's done for us, what he's meant. I can't even put it into words."
No, but at least everyone's always trying.
Not so with Jeff Branson.
"I'm not sure why more people don't talk about the job he's done," Josh Harrison was saying after going 4 for 4 in the Pirates' latest prodigious output, a 10-2 trouncing of the non-Miller-Park Brewers Saturday night at PNC Park. "It means so much to us as hitters to have someone like Jeff who we can trust, who can prepare us, work with us ... you name it."
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