2021 Pittsburgh Pirates

61-101 • .377 Win% • 5th in NL C

The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates went 61-101 (.377) finishing 5th in the NL C division. The club scored 609 runs, allowed 833, and played home games at PNC Park. Team leaders included Bryan Reynolds (24 HR, 90 RBI) and Chris Stratton (7-1, 3.63 ERA).

W (Wins):
Games credited to a pitcher whose team took a lead it never surrendered while he was the pitcher of record.
L (Losses):
Games charged to the pitcher of record when the opposing team took a lead it never surrendered.
RS (Runs Scored (team)):
Total runs a team scored across the season.
RA (Runs Allowed):
Total runs a team allowed across the season.

Data updated

📊 Season Record

61 Wins
101 Losses
.377 Win %
5th Rank
609 R 833 RA
Diff -224

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⚡ Quick Stats

609 Runs Scored
833 Runs Allowed
-224 Run Diff
859K Attendance

📈 vs. 2021 NL Average

Batting Avg .236 2% below the 2021 league average (.242)
OBP .309 3% below the 2021 league average (.318)
SLG .364 10% below the 2021 league average (.406)
Team ERA 5.08 21% worse than the 2021 league average (4.20)
Runs Scored 609 16% below the 2021 league average (722 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumPNC Park
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 859,498
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Avg per Game 10,611

⚾ Batting Leaders

Team HR Leaders — 2021

Batting Avg

1 Adam Frazier 0.324 2 Bryan Reynolds 0.302 3 Wilmer Difo 0.269 4 Yoshi Tsutsugo 0.268 5 John Nogowski 0.261

Home Runs

1 Bryan Reynolds 24 2 Gregory Polanco 11 3 Colin Moran 10 4 Ben Gamel 8 5 Jacob Stallings 8

RBI

1 Bryan Reynolds 90 2 Jacob Stallings 53 3 Colin Moran 50 4 Kevin Newman 39 5 Ke'Bryan Hayes 38
2021 Pittsburgh Pirates — RBI
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Bryan Reynolds 159 559 93 169 35 8 24 90 75 119 5 0.302
Kevin Newman 148 517 50 117 22 3 5 39 27 41 6 0.226
Adam Frazier 98 386 58 125 28 4 4 32 35 46 5 0.324
Jacob Stallings 112 374 38 92 20 1 8 53 49 85 0 0.246
Ke'Bryan Hayes 96 362 49 93 20 2 6 38 31 87 9 0.257
Gregory Polanco 107 336 38 70 12 2 11 36 36 104 14 0.208
Ben Gamel 111 326 42 83 17 3 8 26 48 99 3 0.255
Colin Moran 99 318 29 82 12 0 10 50 36 87 1 0.258
Erik Gonzalez 71 220 17 51 7 1 2 21 8 40 2 0.232
Wilmer Difo 116 219 25 59 7 3 4 24 20 54 1 0.269
Phillip Evans 76 214 23 44 5 0 5 16 28 53 1 0.206
Michael Perez 70 210 19 30 8 1 7 21 19 68 0 0.143
Anthony Alford 49 133 14 31 6 1 5 11 12 58 5 0.233
Hoy Park 44 127 16 25 5 2 3 14 18 38 1 0.197
Yoshi Tsutsugo 43 127 20 34 8 1 8 25 15 33 0 0.268
Cole Tucker 43 117 15 26 4 2 2 12 13 33 2 0.222
John Nogowski 33 111 12 29 7 0 1 14 11 20 0 0.261
Ka'ai Tom 39 92 9 14 2 1 2 11 17 30 1 0.152
Rodolfo Castro 31 86 9 17 2 0 5 8 6 27 0 0.198
Will Craig 18 60 5 13 2 0 1 3 5 22 0 0.217
Michael Chavis 12 42 4 15 3 0 1 5 0 10 0 0.357
Dustin Fowler 18 41 3 7 1 0 0 2 3 20 1 0.171
Jared Oliva 20 40 4 7 2 0 0 2 3 10 2 0.175
JT Brubaker 25 38 0 3 0 0 0 3 4 15 0 0.079
Tyler Anderson 18 37 1 4 0 0 1 1 0 27 0 0.108
Wil Crowe 29 35 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 14 0 0.057
Todd Frazier 13 35 3 3 1 0 0 4 3 6 0 0.086
Mitch Keller 24 28 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 14 0 0.107
Chad Kuhl 28 21 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 0 0.048
Troy Stokes 8 18 2 2 1 0 0 2 1 5 1 0.111
Ildemaro Vargas 7 13 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0.077
Chase De Jong 10 12 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.083
Max Kranick 9 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.000
Trevor Cahill 9 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.111
Oneil Cruz 2 9 2 3 0 0 1 3 0 4 0 0.333
Bryse Wilson 8 9 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0.000
Steven Brault 7 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.167
Cody Ponce 15 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.000
Taylor Davis 2 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.400
Dillon Peters 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0.000
Hunter Owen 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Duane Underwood 43 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0.000
Miguel Yajure 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Tanner Anderson 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Chris Stratton 68 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
David Bednar 61 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Clay Holmes 44 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Nick Mears 30 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Shelby Miller 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Connor Overton 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1.000
Sean Poppen 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Anthony Banda 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Roansy Contreras 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kyle Crick 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Austin Davis 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Enyel De Los Santos 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Michael Feliz 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Geoff Hartlieb 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Sam Howard 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kyle Keller 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Luis Oviedo 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Richard Rodriguez 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Chasen Shreve 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Shea Spitzbarth 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

Team K Leaders — 2021

ERA

1 David Bednar 2.23 2 Richard Rodriguez 2.82 3 Chasen Shreve 3.20 4 Chris Stratton 3.63 5 Duane Underwood 4.33

Wins

1 Chris Stratton 7 2 Tyler Anderson 5 3 JT Brubaker 5 4 Mitch Keller 5 5 Chad Kuhl 5

Strikeouts

1 JT Brubaker 129 2 Wil Crowe 111 3 Mitch Keller 92 4 Tyler Anderson 86 5 Chris Stratton 86
2021 Pittsburgh Pirates — Strikeouts
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
JT Brubaker 5 13 5.36 24 24 0 124.1 123 74 38 129
Wil Crowe 4 8 5.48 26 25 0 116.2 126 71 57 111
Tyler Anderson 5 8 4.35 18 18 0 103.1 99 50 25 86
Mitch Keller 5 11 6.17 23 23 0 100.2 131 69 49 92
Chad Kuhl 5 7 4.82 28 14 0 80.1 73 43 42 75
Chris Stratton 7 1 3.63 68 0 8 79.1 70 32 33 86
Duane Underwood 2 3 4.33 43 0 0 72.2 77 35 27 65
David Bednar 3 1 2.23 61 0 3 60.2 40 15 19 77
Chasen Shreve 3 3 3.20 57 0 0 56.1 43 20 28 45
Sam Howard 3 4 5.60 54 1 0 45.0 34 28 32 60
Chase De Jong 1 4 5.77 9 9 0 43.2 49 28 19 39
Clay Holmes 3 2 4.93 44 0 0 42.0 35 23 25 44
Bryse Wilson 1 4 4.91 8 8 0 40.1 40 22 10 23
Max Kranick 2 3 6.28 9 9 0 38.2 47 27 19 32
Cody Ponce 0 6 7.04 15 2 0 38.1 56 30 11 36
Richard Rodriguez 4 2 2.82 37 0 14 38.1 27 12 5 33
Trevor Cahill 1 5 6.57 9 8 0 37.0 42 27 14 32
Kyle Keller 1 1 6.48 32 0 0 33.1 30 24 22 36
Luis Oviedo 1 2 8.80 22 1 0 29.2 33 29 26 31
Steven Brault 0 3 5.86 7 7 0 27.2 33 18 12 19
Dillon Peters 1 2 3.71 6 6 0 26.2 26 11 10 23
Anthony Banda 1 2 3.42 25 0 0 26.1 25 10 12 25
Kyle Crick 1 1 4.44 27 0 0 24.1 14 12 19 21
Nick Mears 1 0 5.01 30 0 0 23.1 25 13 13 23
Miguel Yajure 0 2 8.40 4 3 0 15.0 17 14 7 11
Shelby Miller 0 1 5.06 10 0 0 10.2 9 6 6 7
Austin Davis 0 1 5.59 10 0 0 9.2 6 6 5 11
Connor Overton 0 1 8.31 5 3 0 8.2 10 8 3 11
Michael Feliz 0 0 2.35 7 0 0 7.2 8 2 1 8
Enyel De Los Santos 1 0 4.91 7 0 0 7.1 9 4 4 6
Tanner Anderson 0 0 3.60 1 0 0 5.0 5 2 0 1
Shea Spitzbarth 0 0 3.60 5 0 0 5.0 4 2 2 1
Geoff Hartlieb 0 0 7.71 4 0 0 4.2 3 4 5 4
Sean Poppen 0 0 7.71 3 0 0 4.2 11 4 2 4
Roansy Contreras 0 0 0.00 1 1 0 3.0 3 0 1 4
John Nogowski 0 0 15.00 3 0 0 3.0 8 5 0 0
Wilmer Difo 0 0 36.00 2 0 0 2.0 9 8 3 1
Phillip Evans 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0

👥 Roster (64)

Anthony Alford Tanner Anderson Tyler Anderson Anthony Banda David Bednar Steven Brault JT Brubaker Trevor Cahill Rodolfo Castro Michael Chavis Roansy Contreras Will Craig +52 more

64 players

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The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates in brief

A 61-101 record (.377) put the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates 5th in the NL Central. The run column shows 609 for and 833 against. At the plate the Pittsburgh Pirates hit .236, 2% worse than the league's .242. The Pittsburgh Pirates staff finished with a 5.08 ERA; the league as a whole was at 4.20. Measured against the 722-run league average, the offense was 16% behind. PNC Park was home in 2021, drawing a total attendance of 859,498.

For power, Bryan Reynolds led the way with 24 homers. Chris Stratton led the pitchers with 7 wins. JT Brubaker struck out 129, the most on the club. Richard Rodriguez saved 14 games. In all, the roster shows 64 players. The 2020 season and the 2022 season are one click away.

Frequently Asked Questions about the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates

What was the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates record?
The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates finished 61-101 (.377 win pct).
Who led the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates in home runs?
Bryan Reynolds led the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates with 24 home runs.
What was the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates team ERA?
The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates posted a team ERA of 5.08.
Did the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series?
No. The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates did not win the World Series.
Where did the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates play?
The 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates played home games at PNC Park.
Who led the 2021 Pittsburgh Pirates in hitting and pitching?
Team leaders were Bryan Reynolds (24 HR, 90 RBI) and Chris Stratton (7-1, 3.63 ERA).
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