Over the last few years, Bryan Reynolds hasn\u2019t had much help around him in the Pittsburgh Pirates lineup beyond Oneil Cruz and Andrew McCutchen, putting a lot of pressure on him to drive the offense.<\/p>\n
That won\u2019t be the case this year, however, as the Pirates finally have some proven sluggers<\/a> to help him carry the load.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Pittsburgh loaded up on bats<\/a> this offseason, acquiring former All-Stars Brandon Lowe, Ryan O\u2019Hearn and Marcell Ozuna. The Pirates also have a pair of young breakout candidates in Konnor Griffin and Jhostynxon Garcia who appear poised to help<\/a>.<\/p>\n At spring training on Monday, Reynolds weighed in on his new teammates and their potential impact on Pittsburgh\u2019s lineup, which ranked last in runs, home runs and OPS last season.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited about it,\u201d the two-time All-Star told Kevin Gorman<\/a> of Tribune-Review Sports. \u201cSpring\u2019s just a little different now. Different vibes, different thoughts and everything. So it\u2019s fun to just build off of that\u2026Everybody we added, been really happy to see.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The 31-year-old outfielder is heading into his eighth season with the Pirates. He\u2019s never made the playoffs or experienced a winning season in the Major Leagues, but that could be about to change<\/a> if Pittsburgh\u2019s new additions perform as hoped.<\/p>\n They might also help Reynolds bounce back from the worst full season of his career, as he slumped to a .720 OPS last year while setting a career high in strikeouts. If he returns to form, that would also give the Pirates a considerable boost.<\/p>\n More Pirates: Report: Former Pirates All-Star To Sign Minor League Deal With AL Team<\/p>\n The post Pirates All-Star \u2018Excited\u2019 For New Star-Studded Supporting Cast<\/a> appeared first on SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the last few years, Bryan Reynolds hasn\u2019t had much help around him in the Pittsburgh Pirates lineup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[1151,5,1751,5343,19257,75592,78,4,1330,10,776,64,4297,626],"class_list":{"0":"post-576744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-andrew-mccutchen","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brandon-lowe","11":"tag-bryan-reynolds","12":"tag-jhostynxon-garcia","13":"tag-kevin-gorman","14":"tag-marcell-ozuna","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-oneil-cruz","17":"tag-pirates","18":"tag-pittsburgh","19":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","20":"tag-pittsburghpirates","21":"tag-ryan-ohearn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116083844002846419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}