Weekly Feature – Page 16 – Steel City Pirates

Pittsburgh Pirates at Baltimore Orioles Series Preview

The Pirates head to Baltimore to square off against the young Orioles.

Top 15 Plus 5 More Update

And we are off. A quick reminder, this week I only give the numbers to date, next week it YRD and the past week. Let’s get to it.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five-ish

I mean if the Pirates can take a week off offense, I can be a bit late with a weekly feature.

We’re in the midst of a real measuring stick week. The Pirates are facing the Rays and Blue Jays in back to back 3 game sets and while it won’t tell us how far this team could go, it might show us and them, they still have work to do.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five

That’s 11 games over .500 folks. If the Pirates were to go 2 games under .500 every month from here through the end of the season, they’d still finish a game over. That’s how incredible this start has been.

Know Your Enemy – April Edition

The first month of the season has come and gone and things have been…wild. Just like everyone predicted, the Pirates have the best record in not only the NL Central, but the entire National League.

Hump Day Pirates Q&A

The Pirates are 16-8. They just lost 8-7 to the Dodgers and the team is in such a good place, go ahead and be mad about it. The players are. They know they gave one away last night, and man what a difference that is from “shower it off”.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five

Here I sit, preparing to write this week’s Five Pirates Thoughts at Five, its something like the 145th time I’ve done so give or take, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while the Pirates solely owned the best record in the National League.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five

Ahh, Manfred ball giveth, and it taketh away. Nobody knows how to play the situation. I see teams get the run in the top of the 10th then just about go for conceding the tying run in the bottom half.

Hump Day Pirates Q&A

Busy week, and many of these questions came in before the Cruz injury, which is good, because the first thing that happens following something like that is nobody is capable of thinking past it.