Matt Gorski carries hot start into season
After a loud spring, Matt Gorski brings offense into the season
For most players, seeing the games begin to count and departing spring training is a task they can’t wait for.
However, when you have a spring like Matt Gorski did, the feeling is a bit less eager.
In Florida, Gorski hit .360 with four home runs and a pair of doubles. All of this made quite an impression on the big league club, but he was still assigned to Indianapolis to start the season.
“A lot of guys like the restart from spring to here,” Gorski said. “I wish I could keep those numbers going, but you do have to restart.”
While Gorski faced the task of staying in a groove, the team was faced with some typical poor, early-season weather conditions.
Two of the first three games in St. Paul were postponed. In coming back to Indianapolis, the team had multiple rainouts due to storms and flooding throughout the Midwest. This included two more postponements and another suspended game. Despite all of this, Gorski still hit .350 with three doubles and a homer in that stretch.
As for the early success carrying over, Gorski credits the work and routine developed in the spring continuing even when the game action was inconsistent.
“It’s just getting off to a hot start,” Gorski said. “When you start in St. Paul, Minnesota in April, you never know how it’s going to go. It’s definitely different, but you carry over the work from Florida and move it all the way north.”
Coming into the weekend, he had cooled off some. Gorski was still hitting .250 with six extra-base knocks in his initial 14 games of 2025.
However, he caught fire again, beginning Friday night. For the weekend, Gorski went 7-for-13 with two doubles, two homers, and six runs driven in.
There was certainly a push for him to make the team out of camp, and thus far, Gorski has not done anything to quiet that.
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I've seen Gorski play about as much as anyone and the guy brings it every game. Except for the high-rate swing and miss, he is about as smooth as you are going to find for his size. Since position players on a roster have dropped to 13 a few years, Gorski-type players have been replaced on rosters by utility players. I am pulling for the guy.
Yet Suwinski and Canario remain in Pittsburgh mainly sitting on the bench, where they belong. Cherington’s analytics are killing the Pirates.