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Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – And So it Begins
Sorry it’s late today, had life stuff to deal with. Let’s dig right in tonight.
Know Your Enemy – Cincinnati Reds 2024 & Beyond
The Reds were the darling of the baseball world for a period in 2023. It seemed as though each week they had a new & exciting player being called upon from the minor leagues. And each time that player reached the Show, they made a splash. As things often go, the team hit a skid after a red hot stretch. The perils of a young core.
The Pirates Next Extension Candidates
Let’s talk about 5 guys the Pirates could think about extending next!
Does Success For Bryan Reynolds Correlate to the Team’s Success?
It is hard to argue that a player has been more consistently productive as a Pirate over the past few years than Bryan Reynolds. Since his arrival with the Pirates, he’s hit .277 in his career and was an All-Star in 2021 while finishing 11th in NL MVP voting.
Pirates Ink Mitch Keller to 5 Year, 77 Million Dollar Extension
There was desire on both sides to get a deal done, and like Bryan Reynolds and Ke’Bryan Hayes before him, Mitch Keller becomes another member of this core locked up for most of the decade.
Nutting is Cheap, and that Really Changes Nothing
Every year someone writes some exposé about not only how cheap Bob Nutting is, but how incompetent he and his organization have been and in fact are. It’s really never anything fans weren’t aware of, just combining things to show the sum is much worse than they might have assumed. Adding some more meat on already bleached and picked to death bones.
Important Numbers For Pittsburgh Pirates
2-21-24 – By Michael Castrignano – @412DoublePlay on X I just finished up the busiest time of the year for me (top 30 prospects episodes – check them out if you haven’t already) and now I’m ready to jump back into writing some articles on my beloved Buccos. Ahead of last season, I did preview piecesContinue reading “Important Numbers For Pittsburgh Pirates”
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – First Full Squad Day
This Saturday at 1:05 PM, I’ll be in another world. Oh, I’ll still be in Pittsburgh, but when I put in my headphones and tune in the Pirates vs the Twins for the first game of the Grapefruit League schedule, I’ll be right there and I probably won’t miss more than a handful of innings this team plays for the next seven and a half months unless they make it last longer lord willing.
Steel City Pirates Q&A – Signs of Intelligence on Social Media?
Most of you who submit regular questions here, well, you know I try to give you as serious an attempt as I can to answer your question, but the current climate had me wondering if I might be fishing in a sewer with a hot dog hoping for a clean smelling trout by asking or questions this week.
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