Well, I can’t and won’t sit here and tell you it’ll be productive, but this week sure promises to be newsy. Either way, the business of baseball marches on.
Category Archives: Opinion & Analysis
When We Lose Spring Games, We lose More Than a Scheduled Event
There’s a culture that has been built in baseball, an entire ecosystem of fandom that almost flips the importance from the end of the season to the beginning, it’s called Spring Training and for some, it’s more important than the World Series.
MLB’s Labor Dispute Has Reached the Edge of Reason
I’ve said from the beginning of this, I’m fine losing games if it fixes the game, thing is, that’s not where this is headed. Instead what it looks like to me is the league fighting to keep things as close to unchanged as possible.
Top 5 Pirates Prospects: Dropping The Hammer
2-18-22 By Craig W. Toth (aka @BucsBasement on Twitter) With the amount of curling that has been ingested in my home over the past week or so, accompanied by my family’s regular viewings of Marvel movies featuring Thor wielding his trusty Mjölnir, it’s no wonder I have hammers on the brain. Eventually, as the circuitsContinue reading “Top 5 Pirates Prospects: Dropping The Hammer”
As Ever, It’s All About the Pitching
The Pirates are one of the oldest and most storied franchises in the game, and that’s while acknowledging the past 40 years have been nothing to write home about. Success in this town has almost always been about the bats, the Lumber Company. Sure, they’ve had some good pitchers, but very few who you’d consider locks for the hall.
Another Minor League Trimming On the Horizon?
Rob Manfred has had a couple very thematic goals since becoming commissioner of Major League Baseball. First, to find a way to improve the pace of play in the game, and second, to reduce the size and scope of baseball’s development system.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
Just about every year I see today, Valentine’s Day, as the ramp up to Spring Training. It’s also my Birthday, so usually I’m showered with Pirates gear but this year, the news is so dark on MLB most chose to just avoid it.
Exploitation, Plain & Simple – MLB Wants MiLB to Remain Unpaid for Spring Work
As the labor battle rages on between MLB and the MLBPA, it’s easy to ignore the very real uprising taking place in the Minor Leagues who still have no union representation.
Top 5 Pirates Prospects: Peaking My Interest
2-11-22 By Craig W. Toth (aka @BucsBasement On Twitter) Nowadays it feels like every prospect-especially when it comes to the Pirates-needs to be labeled as something. Whether it be underrated, overrated, under the radar, relative unknown, forgotten, or any variation of these designations, they have to be seen as something; which is somewhat mind bogglingContinue reading “Top 5 Pirates Prospects: Peaking My Interest”
Minor Agreements, Consistent Issues Persist
Well, as expected Rob Manfred spoke to the media today and some news came out of it that we should discuss along with more anticipated posturing that I also suppose we should have expected.
Steel City Pirates 