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Monthly Archives: March, 2020

OOTP: The 2020 Pirates Have a Day Off, But the 2025 Pirates Are Just Getting Started

In real life, I hope you're all safe right now, with plenty of supplies, and a place to avoid getting COVID-19. In real life, I...

Some Added Draft and International Signing Details

New details are coming out about the draft and internationals signings, which I wanted to briefly mention here, while leaving this article open to...

Pirates’ Service Time Implications After Deal

What better to think about while the world is burning down around us than MLB Service Time, right? Honestly, I was looking forward to...

Pittsburgh Pirates Seasons: Kiki Cuyler, 1925

We have been rolling out some history articles recently in advance of our upcoming Pittsburgh Baseball Network site. We will have a specific site...

First Pitch: Update on the 2020 Draft

Yesterday, Kiley McDaniel broke some news about the 2020 MLB amateur draft. It looks like MLB and the MLBPA have reached an agreement on...

OOTP21: Pittsburgh Pirates 2020 Opening Day vs the Tampa Bay Rays

Welcome to Opening Day! We're going to be following the 2020 Pittsburgh Pirates season all year, as if it were happening live, using Out of...

Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: George Grantham

One of the new features we have planned for the history site on the upcoming Pittsburgh Baseball Network is Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates, where we...

OOTP21: It’s Opening Day! Let’s Preview the 2020 Pittsburgh Pirates

In another world, in another dimension -- perhaps even one where we were attacked by the less effective Coorsvirus -- we'd be watching Opening...

First Pitch: If There Was a Minor League Season, Part Two

Our hypothetical minor league season continues with the Indianapolis pitching staff.  The Indy staff figured to be a work in progress for a while...

Updated Top 300 Draft Prospects from Baseball America

While we don't know yet if the MLB amateur draft will go off as planned on June 10-12, or be pushed back, or even...

Card of the Day: 1913 T200 Fatima Pittsburgh Pirates

Back in 1913, Fatima Cigarettes put out a set of team cards for all 16 Major League teams. The cards measured 2-5/8” by 4-3/4”, though...

First Pitch: Possible Rosters if There Was a Minor League Season, Part One

This is the first of an eight-part series on the minor league rosters we might see if the minor league season actually happened.  We'll...

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