11-4-22 – By Gary Morgan – @garymo2007 on Twitter When you’re building a team, and doing so internally to a large degree, it’s key that the jump from Minor League ball to MLB ball is as seamless as possible. There are a ton of factors that youngsters struggle with when they make the jump. PitchersContinue reading “Trouble With the Learning Curve”
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On the Bubble – Which Pirates are in Danger of Being a 40-man Casualty
We’re going to have to break this into categories to really make sense of this. Some guys are completely safe because there isn’t anyone internal coming quickly, nobody on the 26-man who can play or pitch where they do, but on this list because a relatively cheap signing would eliminate their usefulness.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Five Pirates Thoughts at Five.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
Not that it should be a surprise, but the Pirates didn’t really do much since we last talked. Oh sure they went and claimed yet another waiver catcher, but nothing substantial was done.
Get Better Now, vs Get Better Slowly
It couldn’t possibly be more clear which of these two paths your Pittsburgh Pirates will pursue. Now, it’s a bit of a misnomer because of course everyone on the team could take a big jump and rookies who come up could of course burst on the scene as opposed to struggle mightily.
In 2023, the Pirates Should be Aggressive
On November 15, 2019, Robert Nutting hired Ben Cherington to be the Pirates new GM, officially kicking off a rebuild. Year 3 of this rebuild has been….shall we say, not good? How’s year 4 going to look, you may ask? Good question.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
The playoffs are in full swing, in fact as of tonight, we’ll have the entire AL and NL Championship Series field set and for the most part, the games have been fun. Well, not for LA fans, but I digress.
Some Backtracks Could Lead to Progress in 2023
Ya know, when your team loses 100 games, it’s not often you can look back and actually want to return most of the roster, let alone return some guys who didn’t last the year…
Operation Offseason: Arbitration Decisions
Baseball decides for us the order in which we have to attack the offseason. If you’re a playoff team, you’re thinking about these things too, but the likelihood your fans are is just about nil.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
Well, the first edition of this piece in quite some time in which I don’t have games to pull tidbits from. Instead, it’ll mark the first heel turn toward 2023 for me personally and largely this site.
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