On episode 2 of An NL Central Podcast, Rob Mains, Alex Crisafulli, and Brandon Lee discuss the happenings in the division over the past month, including an assessment of the Pittsburgh Pirates so far, how the Cardinals should forget about April (but not Aledmys Diaz), and dive a little deeper into Rob’s quality starts article at BP. Each participant also weighs in on the “30 day money-back guarantee” offseason move for their team, and whether they’d re-do it. Cubs discussion is sprinkled throughout.

Rob Mains can be found @cran_boy on Twitter, and at Baseball Prospectus and Banished to the Pen. You can find his latest post at BP on the quality start.

Alex Crisafulli is on Twitter at @alexcards79, and writes regularly at Viva El Birdos. Here’s his latest post on the leaving the Cardinals’ April in the rearview mirror.

Brandon Lee is @bleeinternets on Twitter, contributes to Banished to the Pen, and can usually be found in the Effectively Wild Facebook Group posting about baseball things.

Intro/outro: The Lemonheads – “Pittsburgh”

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