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Monthly Archives: January, 2020

The Marte Trade: Doing It Right

Analysis
Well, something finally happened.  It's really tough to see Starling Marte go.  From the very first pitch he saw in the majors, he's brought...

Pirates Trade Starling Marte to the Arizona Diamondbacks

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The Pirates have reportedly agreed to a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks for center fielder Starling Marte, according to Jon Heyman: https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1221876912504614917 More to come. Ken Rosenthal...

Prospect Notes: Top 101 Prospects, Top Catchers and Top Tools

Prospect Rankings
Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America and MLB Pipeline all have noteworthy prospect articles today, so we threw them all into one article. Baseball Prospectus released their...

First Pitch: I Agree With Bob Nutting, But I Don’t Trust Him

First Pitch
The Pirates don't deserve any benefit of the doubt from their fans. Bob Nutting doesn't deserve any benefit of the doubt from his customers. There was...

The Least-Known Great Player in Baseball History

Pirates History
The Athletic (you need a sub) has been running a daily series by Joe Posnanski covering the 100 greatest baseball players of all time. ...

First Pitch: Pirates are Looking for a Way to Minimize Pitching Injuries

First Pitch
The Pittsburgh Pirates gave the local media some updates on injured pitchers yesterday. A specific quote from Nick Burdi drew my attention because I've...

Winter Leagues: Robbie Glendinning Ends Australian Season Among the Top Hitters in the League

Winter Leagues
Our last Winter Leagues post was back on Tuesday, when we had two highlights of Socrates Brito after he drove in four runs in...

MLB Pipeline Ranks Three Pirates Among Their Top 100 Prospects

Prospect Rankings
MLB Pipeline released their new top 100 prospects list live on MLB Network on Saturday afternoon. They had three familiar names in their top...

First Pitch: 1/25/20

First Pitch
Following up on Wilbur's article yesterday with a few notes and thoughts on the Pirates right now. **The Pirates, led by Bob Nutting, have discussed...

Pirates Notes: Marte Trade Talks, New Announcers, Spring Training TV Schedule

News
A bunch of Pittsburgh Pirates news has popped up this morning, so I'll summarize it here. Jon Heyman is reporting that the trade talks for...

First Pitch: Is “The Plan” Emerging?

First Pitch
New manager Derek Shelton had some comments recently about the Pirates' offseason direction, specifically, about the lack of changes to the roster.  You can...

Pirates Need to Look at Different Ways to Acquire Talent

Analysis
Unlike the last two offseasons, there aren’t many impact players remaining in free agency at this point. At the top of the list is...
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