We’re just beyond the half way point. We’ve seen a litany of rookies make their debut. Some we scarcely met before sending them back or in some cases even moving on for good.
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Two Guys Talkin’ Trades – Jose Quintana
Another week gone, another week closer to the Trade Deadline. With Ben Gamel in the rearview mirror, Joe and I take on a much more controversial trade candidate in one Jose Quintana.
Top 5 Pirates Prospect Performers: Life’s Curveballs
7/6or7/22 By Craig W. Toth (aka @BucsBasement on Twitter) Last season Matthew Fraizer burst onto the Pittsburgh Pirates Prospect Scene by slashing .306/.388/.552 with 23 homers between High-A Greensboro and Double-A Altoona; ultimately being named the Honus Wagner Player-of-the-Year in the Pirates Farm System and the High-A East League’s Most Valuable Player, as well asContinue reading “Top 5 Pirates Prospect Performers: Life’s Curveballs”
You Want to Send Who Down?
I rarely get into walls of stats, and I often try to show both sides of an issue, but some things I’ve seen recently, well, they just don’t have a place in reality.
Top 20 Prospect Update
Ok, I’m not gonna lie. It was not pretty down on the farm this week. Doesn’t much matter though, I still need to stomach through it.
Setting A Pirates Lineup
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t7622-126837f As the last of the fireworks are used up, the Pirates find themselves with a clear starting nine. Can the team take feelings out and play that starting lineup based solely on results? We have the perfect #2 and #3 hitters to build around, and putting those hitters in the right spots should maximiseContinue reading “Setting A Pirates Lineup”
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
It’s super weird that the Pirates aren’t playing today. They used to play double headers on the 4th, and this year for some reason they don’t play at all.
The Youth Movement Won’t Stop, Even if Veterans Slow it Slightly
This team isn’t by any stretch of the imagination a finished product. They haven’t fully moved on to youth, nor have they entirely decided that veterans have no place. When the team brings up players from the IL this week, it’s gong to come at the expense of young players.
Temporarily.
Two Guys Talkin’ Trades – Ben Gamel
I think the folks are sick of us drumming up trades for the fan favorites, and the hometown heroes. So this week I thought we’d talk Ke’Bryan Hay.. I’m just kidding. Let’s talk about the man that’s been lost in the shuffle, Ben Gamel.
Top 20 Prospect Update
Another busy week for our Bucs system. I don’t want to bore you, so let’s get it moving along here.
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