DETROIT -- This miserable Michigan weather forecast permitting, the Pittsburgh Baseball Club's 132nd season will begin at 1:10 p.m. with Jordan Zimmerman's first pitch to Adam Frazier.
The same season will probably end with Josh Harrison employed elsewhere.
But in the interim, for however long that lasts, even after he popped off about the Andrew McCutchen and Gerrit Cole selloffs, expect to see nothing less than his extraordinarily energetic self.
"It's baseball, man," J-Hay was telling me earlier this month in Bradenton. "You know me. You know what I'm all about. Baseball is my everything. I'm going to give everyone everything I've got, just like I always have."
He burst out with a singular laugh.
"It's not like I've got some other gear."
He really doesn't.
I'm not writing this to emphasize any potential drama related to his departure once it happens. In the same year Cutch and Cole are sent out, sorry, but the biggest headline fonts have already been worn out. J-Hay's a two-time All-Star, but he'd be the first to attest he shouldn't share a sentence with his best bud, in particular.
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