Draft day in any sport is supposed to be a day of optimism, of looking forward to the future construction of your club. This year we may have to look through the fog of whether the game itself will be played, even as we watch our teams fortify talent with no place to play themselves.
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It’s Draft Day
After months and months of studying hundreds of scouting reports, watching countless videos, having some great conversations, writing multiple articles, jotting down mock drafts on the note pad beside my computer and pretty much thinking about it at all hours of the day and night, it is finally almost here; tonight the MLB June AmateurContinue reading “It’s Draft Day”
Top Ten Reasons to Be Optimistic Baseball Will Have a 2020 Season
It’s easy in this day and age to allow yourself to get caught up in the minute by minute roller coaster as social media brings news and opinion to your doorstep.
National League Central Division Draft Preview
The draft approaches this week, and for many of us it will offer a welcome respite from the day to day will they, won’t they game MLB has put us through. We’ll discuss of course what the Pirates do at length, but we also want to make sure we keep an eye on what our NL Central foes have on tap.
A Little Draft Discussion
On Saturday afternoon I had the privilege of sitting down with Keanan Lamb, Senior MLB Draft Writer from Baseball Prospectus, to have a conversation about the Pittsburgh Pirates top 3 picks in this week’s MLB June Amateur Draft and the way that the it could ultimately unfold in front of us. As a novice inContinue reading “A Little Draft Discussion”
Law Of The Instrument: Will Manfred Bang The Gavel?
In psychology there is a theory that attempts to explain an underlying bias based on the over reliance of a certain tool. This concept is often and easily represented by the saying, “when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail”. From everything I have seen and read about RobContinue reading “Law Of The Instrument: Will Manfred Bang The Gavel?”
Need Isn’t Always a Valid Criteria in MLB Draft
I think many people reading this remember the Littlefield era, where we chose a pitcher number 1 every draft for the best part of a decade. Some were a stretch, some were about believing they’d sign for less, others still were overt misses.
Chris Archer – Former Pirate?
I wonder if we’ll ever know how long this has been an issue for Chris, and honestly it hardly matters. What this is plainly happens to be the end of any hope this trade would become anything resembling passable.
The Draft Board Begins to Take Shape: One Week To Go
From the time I wrote my first article on the MLB June Amateur Draft back in the middle of April until my most recent Rough Draft, a lot has changed concerning the landscape of baseball in general and the draft we have come to know and love did not escape wrecking ball completely. This hasContinue reading “The Draft Board Begins to Take Shape: One Week To Go”
A Rough Draft
Over the next week and a half there will be a little bit of normalcy brought back into my baseball life, as the annual MLB June Amateur Draft is almost upon us. Sure a lot has been changed, much to my dismay, but some of the same intrigue that has fascinated and drawn me inContinue reading “A Rough Draft”
Steel City Pirates 