Tag Archives: Ben Cherington

Steel City Pirates Q&A – Signs of Intelligence on Social Media?

Most of you who submit regular questions here, well, you know I try to give you as serious an attempt as I can to answer your question, but the current climate had me wondering if I might be fishing in a sewer with a hot dog hoping for a clean smelling trout by asking or questions this week.

On the Eve of a New Pirates Season Beginning…

I’m not ready to make predictions yet, in fact, I don’t even think they’ve finished forming the roster, I’ll let Spring play out before I go there like every year but I have a few thoughts I wanted to get out there before we get this thing started.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – OK, Baseball Season

Camp opens this week and my friends, I’m ready. At some point, will they won’t they, did they do enough? Why won’t they do this? Man it’s just time to shut up, lace them up, get out there and start showing us what we have.

Pirates Sign Yasmani Grandal for 2.5 Million

In keeping with the cherished tradition of the Ben Cherington era, the Pirates signed what at the very least is a notable name during a time when most of the country is busy doing anything but caring about what the Pirates do

Steel City Pirates – Bucco Questions on Super Bowl Weekend!

Really solid and well thought out questions this week. Some of you are starting to know me well enough to tee me up purposefully (Nick), and some of you much like Trevor Bauer himself, just can’t stop yourselves.

I’m Not Upset Gary Sanchez Signed Elsewhere, Hear Me Out

This Gary Sanchez situation in miniature really showed me how far apart I am from a lot of fans. I mean some people were straight heated about what I saw at least as a weird fit.

Can the Pittsburgh Pirates Bullpen be a top unit in baseball in 2024?

On paper is always different than what we see play out on the field, hence why they play the games, but this a group that all of you should expect to be Pittsburgh’s best.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Only One More Before Pitchers and Catchers Report

It’s getting real now. The folks who’ve spent all off season telling everyone to calm down because there was so friggin’ much time left, well, let’s just say in my Q&A this week, they were now the ones asking… Are they going to get another pitcher or not?

Compete for the Division in 2024? Maybe, but I Don’t Think I’ll be Predicting it.

We all know the team claims they’ll get more pitching. I’m not even calling them liars, or assuming they’ll fail to get one, but I started thinking, even if they do, could I really believe they’d compete for a division?