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Pittsburgh Pirates Relief Pitching Prospects: Building a Bullpen From Within

The Pirates relied on a lot of waiver claims and help from the outside for their bullpen this year. It's not an uncommon practice...

Williams: When Should Minor League Players Be Promoted to the Majors?

Major League Baseball overhauled the minor league system last year, removing 40 teams and the short-season leagues from the mix. The result for each...

Pittsburgh Pirates Starting Pitching Prospects: Quinn Priester and Roansy Contreras Lead the Way

The Pirates need rotation help in the majors, as I outlined in today's article over at No Quarter. Fortunately, they have some talented pitching prospects...

Pittsburgh Pirates Shortstop Prospects: The Impact Potential of Oneil Cruz

As I wrote in today's breakdown of Kevin Newman and the 2021 MLB season, the shortstop position is becoming more elite. Some of the...

What Does an Infielder Watch When a Pitch is Thrown?

While I was covering the Altoona Curve in September, I heard something that I never thought about in the past. What does an infielder...

Pittsburgh Pirates Catching Prospects: Henry Davis Leads a Rebuilt Group of Catchers

A year ago at this time, catching was by far the weakest position in the Pittsburgh Pirates' organization. The prospects at the position all profiled...

Pittsburgh Pirates Center Field Prospects: Travis Swaggerty Could Arrive in 2022

I'm not saying that Bryan Reynolds will get traded. I'm definitely not saying that. I'm not even comfortable discussing the rumors about him more than I...

Pirates Sweep the League Awards at Both Levels of A-Ball

Yesterday we received the announcement that Quinn Priester won the Pitcher of the Year and Matt Fraizer was named the MVP of the old...

Matt Fraizer is the Pirates Prospects 2021 Player of the Year

Back in 2019, Matt Fraizer debuted with the West Virginia Black Bears by putting up a .221/.287/.266 line.  That includes a .045 ISO, in...

Adrian Florencio is the Pirates Prospects 2021 Pitcher of the Year

Adrian Florencio had just 47.1 innings of pro experience prior to this season, coming in 2019 with Bristol, where he had a 4.75 ERA...

Matt Fraizer is the Pirates Prospects 2021 Breakout Prospect of the Year

"Fraizer comes with questions about his bat..." That was the introduction to Matt Fraizer's profile in the 10th Anniversary Prospect Guide coming into this season. That...

Pittsburgh Pirates 2021 Minor League Recaps: FCL Pirates

If you were assessing the Pirates' overall 2021 performance in the Florida Complex League (stupid name, but it beats "Low A Southeast"), you'd have...

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