Tag Archives: MLB

A Better Pirates Team Won’t Improve the Discourse About Them on it’s Own

Oh yes, you’ve been hurt, and to some of you this team could win the World Series and it would only lead to your undying correctness. Truth is, eventually, you will be right. At some point they will come down the other side of the mountain they’re climbing whether they reach the top or not.

Brubaker Heads to the Big Apple in Trade with Yankees

3-29-24 – By Corey Shrader – @CoreyShrader  The Pittsburgh Pirates have struck a deal with the New York Yankees. The Bucs are sending JT Brubaker & international bonus pool money to The Bronx Bombers for a Player to Be Named Later. While there is no return to react to quite yet, it is prudent to discussContinue reading “Brubaker Heads to the Big Apple in Trade with Yankees”

Series Preview: Pirates (0-0) at Marlins (0-0)

The Pirates open the season in Miami against the Marlins for the first time in 18 years. The Fish are coming off a playoff season after finishing 84-78 but their pitching staff, which was formerly a strength, has been decimated by injuries.

2024 All NL Central Futures, Predictions, & Superlatives

Corey and Michael make some predictions and assessments surrounding the NL Central heading into the 2024 MLB Season

Steel City Pirates Q&A – Opening Day Eve!

The Pirates roster was settled early in relation to every other Spring in the Cherington/Shelton Era, but that hasn’t eliminated all the questions. Tonight, I’m going to tackle quite a few of yours.

What can we learn from Spring Training statistics?

If you dive in with a closed mind, you will either stop looking, or filter the splits down far enough to feed a narrative. That is not the goal here. Gathering information should always help us understand the game more.

Steel City Pirates – 2024 Season Preview

Every year since we launched this site we’ve published our season preview, usually build with Craig Toth and I bantering back and forth, and I considered doing that again this year with one or more of the other writers here on staff. Ultimately though, we’ve all got our own shows to put content into, we’ve all got our own ideas on angles to cover and it just made more sense to leave this entire piece in my voice alone.

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.

Will Henry Davis Make the Team?

The Pirates made a statement way back at the beginning of Spring, maybe a clumsy statement, maybe even stupid about Yasmani Grandal making the team and the Pirates having a competition for the second spot.