I’m 44 and don’t have a single memory of my team in the Series, this is where I slide my chips in.
Category Archives: Opinion & Analysis
Big Joe Musgrove Goes Home for a Haul of Prospects
By now you all heard the news, Joe Musgrove has been traded to the San Diego Padres in a three team deal that brought 5 prospects back to the Pirates. I’m not going to sugar coat it, this doesn’t help the 2021 Pirates in any way, in fact it’s a big blow. That said, I’ll equally state strongly, this was not a decent return, this was an excellent return.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five 1-18-21
We’ve had just a terrific week of conversation with most of you last week and I’m truly looking forward to another as baseball inches closer to a return and news starts to pick up.
Spend Nutting, Win Nutting! Am I Right?
For years it has been a rallying cry for some within the Pirates Fanbase; plastered on social media, echoed in response to almost every transaction made by the team and even placed onto t-shirts to wear into PNC Park. The financial shortcomings of Pittsburgh Pirates Owner and Chairman of The Board, Robert “Billionaire Bob” NuttingContinue reading “Spend Nutting, Win Nutting! Am I Right?”
Mostly Smooth Sailing For Pirates As They Pass The Arbitration Deadline
Friday at 1 PM was a deadline of sorts, but not the hard cutoff that many perceive it to be. It was simply the set time in which teams and arbitration eligible players, who had been tendered a contract back on December 2nd, were required to present their respective salaries to the Major League BaseballContinue reading “Mostly Smooth Sailing For Pirates As They Pass The Arbitration Deadline”
Busy Day for the Pirates Yesterday
The Bucs were busy yesterday and they continued to show a change in philosophy on multiple fronts. Not that it matters to many of you, because of course everyone they acquire will only be traded later for more prospects.
The Pirates Can’t Develop Prospects!
People love to scream this at me on social media and they puff out their chests so proud of themselves for having example after example of the Pirates failures over the years to get prospects across the finish line.
The Pirates Need To Explore Every Avenue
Tomorrow begins the International Signing Period, which was postponed from its originally scheduled start date of July 2, 2020. Prior to the delay, and even since then, the Pirates have found themselves linked to Former Top 10 International Prospect, #11 OF Shalin Polanco, who is estimated to receive a $2.5 million signing bonus. There haveContinue reading “The Pirates Need To Explore Every Avenue”
What Type of Team are the Pirates Building
If you want to be lazy about it or ‘funny’ go ahead and say bad. But I’m talking about what type of team it looks like they’re building toward for the window. There are some factors beyond money we’ll talk about and we’ll discuss the type of talent that has been brought in as well as what was already here.
We Either Hate Cheating or We Don’t
Major league baseball is again finding itself embroiled in yet another cheating scandal. This one happens to be the worst kept secret in the game.
Steel City Pirates 