If you dive in with a closed mind, you will either stop looking, or filter the splits down far enough to feed a narrative. That is not the goal here. Gathering information should always help us understand the game more.
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Steel City Pirates – 2024 Season Preview
Every year since we launched this site we’ve published our season preview, usually build with Craig Toth and I bantering back and forth, and I considered doing that again this year with one or more of the other writers here on staff. Ultimately though, we’ve all got our own shows to put content into, we’ve all got our own ideas on angles to cover and it just made more sense to leave this entire piece in my voice alone.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – That’s a Wrap on the Grapefruit League
The Roster is set, and we’ll talk all about it in detail when I release the Steel City Pirates 2024 Season Preview tomorrow. I can’t avoid touching on some of it today but I’ll have individual thoughts about every player selected along with a whole bunch of fun prediction stuff we can all chew on and hold up as examples of my stupidity. I did get the record prediction right last year but it sure as hell didn’t come about in the way I envisioned.
Will Henry Davis Make the Team?
The Pirates made a statement way back at the beginning of Spring, maybe a clumsy statement, maybe even stupid about Yasmani Grandal making the team and the Pirates having a competition for the second spot.
Pirates Make Roster Moves, One Took Fans by Surprise
The Pirates made a couple roster moves yesterday, one of which really took me aback.
Pittsburgh Needs a Winner, the Pirates Want to Deliver, are They Ready?
It’s probably not fair to ask the franchise that has provided a total of 4 seasons where they finished over .500 since 1992 to step up and do the heavy lifting for a down period in Pittsburgh Sports, but here we are.
Know Your Enemy – Chicago Cubs 2024 & Beyond
The Cubs had a bit of a surprising rise in 2023. Not to say that they were expected to be
“bad.” That certainly was not the expectation. They did manage to exceed most prognostications and in so doing, they have accelerated their “rebuild” quite a bit.
My Trip to Bradenton, it Just Felt Different
March is an incredibly busy time for me. Oh, yeah it’s Spring Training and there’s certainly lots to cover on here and on my show, but in my real job, it’s crunch time, so finding a way to slip off to Florida doesn’t happen for me as often as I’d like. This year we were able to make it happen, and man, it’s been too long.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five – Decision Time Looms
This week I’m going to write up a nice story about my trip to Bradenton. I have a bunch of pictures I took with my big lens, and stories to tell about the experience, but for this edition of 5 thoughts, let’s just keep it about some of the very real choices this team has to make and soon.
Pirates Add Michael Taylor and Domingo German
The Pirates made two additions on Friday to improve the team and overall depth. Let’s talk about both, and let’s not hide from any of the issues that come with them.
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