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Santana Homers Twice As Pirates Defeat Padres 8-4 (44-56)

7/24/23- By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on Twitter The Pirates haven’t won a series in over 3 weeks. In fact, the last series they won was against these San Diego Padres at home, a sweep from June 27-29. After tonight, they have two more shots at securing a series victory as Quinn Priester earned hisContinue reading “Santana Homers Twice As Pirates Defeat Padres 8-4 (44-56)”

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Where is the Winning?

The rest of this year needs to be geared toward that, so at the deadline the Pirates have some choices to make. Do they hold on to guys like Choi, Santana for their sheer competence, or do they clear the space to start getting more at bats for some of the members of that list?

Keller Struggles Again as Pirates Lose 7-5 (43-56)

7/23/23- By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on Twitter With a chance to win their first series in over 3 weeks, sending All-Star Mitch Keller to face former Pirate and struggling southpaw, Tyler Anderson, seemed like a favorable matchup for Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, there have been very few favorable days for the Bucs this season – though,Continue reading “Keller Struggles Again as Pirates Lose 7-5 (43-56)”

Two guys Talkin’ Trades – Spare Parts

In the offseason the Bucs added some free agents to fill some holes. Thing is, only one of those free agents had any control. And ironically, he didn’t make it out of spring training as Jarlin Garcia hasn’t even gripped a ball since his injury.

Hump Day Pirates Q&A

When you look at your team as currently constructed and pretend you just got back from Germany and are looking at the roster for the first time, you don’t know the record, you don’t know how inept they look at the plate, my guess is on paper, you’d think something like, finally, this looks like a better roster.

You might even think they should score some more runs.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – More Kids

The Pirates have played poor baseball. They’ve been injured, they’ve underperformed, they’ve even just flat out kicked a baseball right at the wrong time.

One thing they haven’t done is completely bungle a rebuild.

Not yet.

Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – The All Star Break

Even as the Pirates and every other team in the league for that matter, are selecting players they hope one day might represent their organizations in the All Star Game one day, every team is also suiting up their representatives and shipping them off to Seattle for this year’s festivities.

Pirates Select Paul Skenes Number 1 Overall – Adding Potential Huge Piece of the Puzzle

Bottom line, The Pirates added a fantastic prospect, he’ll be the Pirates number 1 prospect immediately, and I suspect fairly high on the MLB Top 100 as well.

Pirates 2023 MLB Draft Preview

7/7/23 By Craig W. Toth (aka @BucsBasement on Twitter) When you have the 1st Overall Pick-especially in a year where there are at least 3 to 4 players near the same talent level, or project-ability depending on who you ask-things can get a little muddled. Throw in some genuine misunderstanding-at the very least-and misrepresenting-at theContinue reading “Pirates 2023 MLB Draft Preview”