Every year when guys show up to Spring Training, you see changes. Sometimes they’ve changed a batting stance, added some muscle, worked on a new pitch, and sometimes they show up just sounding different.
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For Better or Worse, the Components of This Pirates Roster are Likely All Here
The spots I was most worried about entering Spring were 1B, 2B, C and SP, I think some of you would probably add Outfield in some way shape or form to that list, whether that be a center fielder or right fielder. I wasn’t as concerned about the last part, but I’ll discuss it anyway just to cover all the bases.
The Pirates Coaching Must Show Something, and Soon
Criticism of coaching in sports is often the go to of the uniformed. Stick with me, I’m not calling anyone dumb, just saying when there are actual coaching deficiencies or failures, we often don’t recognize them while they’re masked by talented players. Vice versa happens too, so when we discuss coaching it’s important to tackle it from a lot of different angles.
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!
The Pirates Next Extension Candidates
Let’s talk about 5 guys the Pirates could think about extending next!
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.
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.
Sports Constantly Evolve, So Why Do We Always Hate the Changes?
Sports are a huge part of my life and every sport I watch has changed rules and style of play over the years. For some changes there aren’t any hard and fast points where you can say the switch flipped. For others rule changes prompted the seismic shift in our games.
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