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From The Crows Nest: The Milwaukee Brewers Farm System

In the first two articles I took a more in-depth look at the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds Farm System, which have been ranked as #23 and #24 respectively; the first potentially on its way back up toward the top and the latter on a free fall that may not stop until they are atContinue reading “From The Crows Nest: The Milwaukee Brewers Farm System”

The Pirates Top 5 Late Round Draft Picks

By now many, if not all of you, should be aware of the fact that the MLB June Amateur Draft is going to look drastically different this year; to what degree has yet to be determined. As it currently stands the number of rounds could be as few as 5, but discussions are taking placeContinue reading “The Pirates Top 5 Late Round Draft Picks”

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.

Bucs In The Basement’s Brilliant Idea: The Perfect Season

We as baseball fans need to start realizing that if Major League Baseball comes back this season it is not going to be a regular year. There are not going to be 162 games, with a minimum of 9 innings a piece. Divisions and leagues as we have come to know them are completely outContinue reading “Bucs In The Basement’s Brilliant Idea: The Perfect Season”

Will the Real Pirates DH Please Stand Up?

For most of the time I’ve been writing, I’ve begrudgingly told you the DH was coming to the National League. Even as I begin another column with the designated hitter as a main subject, I’m envisioning half the comments being a simple “Nooooooooooooo”.

Should Pittsburgh be Excited if MLB Lands on 80 Game Season

Friends, I’m not going to relitigate all the plans, ideas, nagging thoughts, proposals and wet dreams of every person involved with MLB and the players union to restart playing the game. First, most of them are crap, worse, unrealistic crap. Second, none of them have threatened happening.

Top O’The Metric To Yinz: Putting Balls In Play

Just put the ball in play and anything can happen. It’s a fairly simplistic statement, but sometimes those are the ones with the most truth behind them. If you walk, you only get first base. If you strike out, you are either yelling at the umpire for a missed call or yelling at yourself; eitherContinue reading “Top O’The Metric To Yinz: Putting Balls In Play”