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Gary’s Five Pirates Thoughts – Actual Baseball to Talk About…

In Spring Training, players like Matt Gorski face scrutiny over their potential. Fans often rush to judgments while teams evaluate players’ development and readiness for major league roles.

Gary’s Five Pirates Thoughts – Games Start This Week

The article discusses the Pittsburgh Pirates’ promising starting pitching talent, emphasizing the importance of developing affordable options for sustained success while addressing injury concerns and potential roster moves.

Gary’s Five Pirates Thoughts – Ready or Not, Here Comes Baseball

As the baseball season nears, reflections on team decisions and draft outcomes reveal mixed feelings on the Pirates’ potential, roster depth, and management accountability heading into 2025.

Oneil Cruz Keeps Eliminating Reasons to Think He Won’t Succeed

Oneil Cruz has been slow walked back into action this Spring, that much is clear, but he’s also made the most of his opportunities and I’d contend, removed almost all doubt he’s healthy, strong, and more important, ready to face MLB pitching.

Time to Turn the Clocks Forward on the Pirates

We were discussing what the Pirates would do if they got a month or two into the season and Marco just isn’t cutting it. A certainly reasonable supposition right? None of us hope that’s the outcome of course, but when you already feel something is likely, or even fairly plausible, it’s good to explore it.

This is a Different Ke’Bryan Hayes We’re Watching

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.

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.

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.