Category Archives: Weekly Feature

Friday Focus – Will Some Teams Have a Fire Sale?

There are a ton of questions surrounding baseball coming back, the biggest of which clearly being will it happen. All the ins and outs of an eventual agreement will be hammered out over the coming days or that singular question will render the rest moot.

Top Ten Pirates Number 1 Picks Who Bombed

The scariest part of writing a piece like this is how easy it would be to put together a top 20. This must improve to be blunt, but the Pirates have a new sheriff in town, here’s hoping he can find gold in all five rounds the league is giving him.

Friday Focus – Is the Cap Itself a Casualty?

Three of America’s four major sports leagues have a salary cap in place, MLB of course being the outlier. If you’ve read my work for a while now you are no doubt aware how I feel about that, but just in case, I think a salary cap is needed to even the playing field in MLB and not just for the Pirates.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five

Hi everyone, I’d like to take this time to first thank you all for supporting us here at #ITdoubleB. When we launched this site we never imagined we’d spend our entire launch with no baseball to write about. None of that stopped you and we are growing everyday, from two guys who just want to talk and write about baseball, we appreciate each and every one of you.

Top Ten – Craziest Things I’ve seen in Baseball

Baseball creates drama, and the unexpected events that crop up are the ones that really stick with you. Here are my top ten insane things I’ve seen, what did I miss? Randy Johnson kills a bird. 2. Jose Canseco has some trouble. 3. Pirates 2014 Triple Play 4. A bunt double 5. Ken Griffey Jr.Continue reading “Top Ten – Craziest Things I’ve seen in Baseball”

Friday Focus – Evaluation, The Unseen Casualty

It has been little over five months since Travis Williams and Ben Cherrington were hired as the President and General Manager respectively. The offseason was anything but normal to begin with as the hiring process went late, cutting into the valuable time it takes to make moves and evaluate where the team is.

The Pirates Top 5 Five Tool Players of All Time

Everyone that reads almost anything I write or listens to my podcast with my buddy Chris, Bucs in The Basement, knows that I am a prospect junkie. Today I am going to step out of my element a little bit, but I am going to take a part of my passion with me. In theContinue reading “The Pirates Top 5 Five Tool Players of All Time”