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Steel City Pirates – Can This Off Season be Over Yet?

Thanks everyone, wound up being a nice session.

Everyone’s Story is Different, but Quinn Priester and Mitch Keller Sure Stack Up Side by Side

Happy Groundhog’s Day everyone, in honor of the day I thought it would be as good a time as any to really dig in on an issue at the very least fans sure as hell feel is recurring year after year in Pittsburgh.

Hey, Let’s Make a Deal! Are the Marlins & Pirates a Good Fit?

This is just one match, with one team. I wrote all this to try to illustrate just how much deeper these things go than reading a report that a team wants THIS, and they have THIS to offer. It’s so much more than that, and I could do this for just about any potential match you toss my way. So could you if you think through all these factors.

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?

Why Coming Back to PNC is a Big Deal for Me

Yea, this is a little different than what you’ve seen from me on this site, but I wanted an outlet to express just how much returning to PNC Park this April is for me.

Five Pittsburgh Pirates featured in MLB Pipeline’s top-100 list

With every new season comes new rankings for baseball’s best prospects, an area Pittsburgh Pirates fans have had to be very familiar with for the past half decade.

Steel City Pirates – Baseball Questions on NFL Championship Weekend

It’s a slow time of year, so the worries, concerns and questions of the fan base tend to fracture. There’s no universal goings on to debate and comment on, so people’s concerns jump all over the place.

Bullpen Full of Bullets

1-25-24 – By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on X Relievers are a “dime a dozen.” You’ve heard it. We’ve heard it. It’s a volatile role which has a lot of turnover. That said, strong bullpens have led the winning charge for Pirates teams during the 2013-15 playoff runs. Recent losing years have included some rough namesContinue reading “Bullpen Full of Bullets”

If Henry Davis fails at the catching position, what happens?

Keep you eyes on Davis all season. Watch his maturation, I expect it, but if he doesn’t improve, he’s not all that safe just because of where he was selected in the draft.

Do the Pittsburgh Pirates Have a Potential Power Surge in 2024

In 1992, the last time the Pirates had a winning season before 2013, all of baseball hit 3,038 homers. In 2013, the number spiked to 4,661, and since 2013, there have been well over 4,000 home runs hit by all of baseball every season since, excluding 2020 of course.