Impressive questions this week, truly. Some of them really got me thinking, some of them opened up a path I honestly hadn’t considered yet. That’s why I love these pieces. Completely selfish view here, but these give me a box full of tools.
Tag Archives: Ben Cherington
Pirates Players Hoping it Really is a Leap Year
Take off your fan hat for just a second here, and try to put yourself in the shoes of the few players who have been here for most of, if not all of this rebuild.
The Life & Times of McKechnie Field 1923-Present
LECOM Field is the oldest stadium still in use for Spring Training. The history is rich, and touches multiple organizations, let’s welcome Douglas Smith to SteelCityPirates.com!
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – And So it Begins
Sorry it’s late today, had life stuff to deal with. Let’s dig right in tonight.
Know Your Enemy – Cincinnati Reds 2024 & Beyond
The Reds were the darling of the baseball world for a period in 2023. It seemed as though each week they had a new & exciting player being called upon from the minor leagues. And each time that player reached the Show, they made a splash. As things often go, the team hit a skid after a red hot stretch. The perils of a young core.
The Pirates Next Extension Candidates
Let’s talk about 5 guys the Pirates could think about extending next!
Does Success For Bryan Reynolds Correlate to the Team’s Success?
It is hard to argue that a player has been more consistently productive as a Pirate over the past few years than Bryan Reynolds. Since his arrival with the Pirates, he’s hit .277 in his career and was an All-Star in 2021 while finishing 11th in NL MVP voting.
Pirates Ink Mitch Keller to 5 Year, 77 Million Dollar Extension
There was desire on both sides to get a deal done, and like Bryan Reynolds and Ke’Bryan Hayes before him, Mitch Keller becomes another member of this core locked up for most of the decade.
Nutting is Cheap, and that Really Changes Nothing
Every year someone writes some exposé about not only how cheap Bob Nutting is, but how incompetent he and his organization have been and in fact are. It’s really never anything fans weren’t aware of, just combining things to show the sum is much worse than they might have assumed. Adding some more meat on already bleached and picked to death bones.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – First Full Squad Day
This Saturday at 1:05 PM, I’ll be in another world. Oh, I’ll still be in Pittsburgh, but when I put in my headphones and tune in the Pirates vs the Twins for the first game of the Grapefruit League schedule, I’ll be right there and I probably won’t miss more than a handful of innings this team plays for the next seven and a half months unless they make it last longer lord willing.
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