I love breaking long seasons into segments. For me, it’s super healthy to sit back half way through the campaign, look everything over away from the day to day ups and downs of baseball and hone in on the important stuff.
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Sweep of Padres Gives Pirates Much Needed Momentum: (38-42)
In a game that felt lost in the early innings, Pittsburgh rallied from a 4-1 deficit with four combined runs in the sixth and seventh inning to defeat the Padres and complete a much-needed sweep.
MLB Draft Deep Dive: Utilizing Sim Scores for Player Comparisons – Joe Boyd
I’m back once again, in a cameo appearance, to present the 2023 COMPs for the top prospects at the Pirates’ disposal! For a refresh on methodology, check out my post from 2021.
Keller Shines And Bats Stay Alive In Pirates Victory: (37-42)
6/29/23- By Craig W. Toth – @BucsBasement on Twitter OK, we won a game yesterday. If we win today, it’s called “two in a row”. And if we win again tomorrow, it’s called a “winning streak”… It has happened before!-Manager Lou Brown from Major League II For the second straight night your Pittsburgh Pirates defeatedContinue reading “Keller Shines And Bats Stay Alive In Pirates Victory: (37-42)”
Hump Day Pirates Q&A
The Pirates finally won a game, and won it with the bats at that. One game is exactly that, until they do this sort of thing for a few games, a week, it’s just an anomaly. We’ve got some great questions this week so I won’t delay jumping right in.
How The Pirates Can Build Depth And Fill Holes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hp56c-1443138 Craig and Chris sit down to discuss the reason(s) behind the youth movement, trade rumors that have started to emerge and ways to address depth in the system and holes in the roster with just a couple moves. Brought to you by ShopYinzz.com! Craig Toth covers the Pirates for Inside The Bucs Basement, and joins hisContinue reading “How The Pirates Can Build Depth And Fill Holes”
Pirates 16 Hits, 9 Runs Propel Win Over Padres: (36-42)
06/27/23 – By Ethan Smith – @mvp_Ethan on Twitter The Pittsburgh Pirates, and their fans and readers of this exact article, have been waiting for the bats to come alive again and on Tuesday night, we finally got some offense again from the Buccos. Pittsburgh starter Rich Hill would surrender three runs in the topContinue reading “Pirates 16 Hits, 9 Runs Propel Win Over Padres: (36-42)”
Top 15 Plus 5 More Update
Inching closer to the ASB, this means we should be on the look out for more promotions. Possibly even changes to the list. Anyways, let’s get to it.
Top 5 Pirates Prospect Performers: Moving Past Father’s Day And My Birthday
6-29-23 By Craig W. Toth (aka @BucsBasement on Twitter) There are certain natural markers within the Major and Minor League Baseball Seasons. In the Majors you have the All-Star Break and the Trade Deadline, while the Minor League Schedule is broken into a first and second half; with the playoff contenders being determined by theContinue reading “Top 5 Pirates Prospect Performers: Moving Past Father’s Day And My Birthday”
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
My guess is, you don’t need me to tell you this team is in trouble as they sit here having lost 12 of 13 contests, 9 of which were in the division.
Today, we’re going to spend time talking about how they got here, what they can do to turn things around and more than anything, is it too late even if they do them?
Steel City Pirates 