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Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – That’s a Wrap on the Grapefruit League

The Roster is set, and we’ll talk all about it in detail when I release the Steel City Pirates 2024 Season Preview tomorrow. I can’t avoid touching on some of it today but I’ll have individual thoughts about every player selected along with a whole bunch of fun prediction stuff we can all chew on and hold up as examples of my stupidity. I did get the record prediction right last year but it sure as hell didn’t come about in the way I envisioned.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Decision Time Looms

This week I’m going to write up a nice story about my trip to Bradenton. I have a bunch of pictures I took with my big lens, and stories to tell about the experience, but for this edition of 5 thoughts, let’s just keep it about some of the very real choices this team has to make and soon.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – On Our Way to Bradenton!

It’s my last piece before heading down to Bradenton for Spring Training, so yes, this is a very Spring Training heavy piece.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Some Things are Taking Shape

It’s been a fun Grapefruit League schedule so far, when the Pirates regulars leave games it’s been impressive watching their prospects beat up on the other team’s replacements. Even the travel games with only a starter or two have a decent amount of talent on display.

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.

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.

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?

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five –

This time of year can be tough as a sports fan. The NFL is gone for a couple weeks before one last big show. The NHL is on their All Star hiatus for ten days. The MLB hot stove is more like a hot plate run from a cigarette lighter plug in an old Datsun. We don’t even have an NBA team here so at least for me, I don’t care what they have going on. College basketball anyone?