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First Pitch: Are the Pirates Really Changing Their Ways?

There's a reason that I'm still here. It's not entirely money. We all need to make a living in this Capitalistic hellscape, and I'm very fortunate...

First Pitch: Pirates Prospects and the Pittsburgh Pirates Universe

On the middle of a white page with blue striped lines, there is a black dot which represents the singularity that is the Pittsburgh...

First Pitch: How Are We Going to Pay For All of This Pirates Content?

I've always tried to be transparent about my plans for this site. This site started as an idea and grew from there into a small...

First Pitch: Should the Pirates Protect Dariel Lopez From the Rule 5 Draft?

This past week was the first week of the Pirates Prospects Weekly concept. I explained that last week in First Pitch, but it's easier...

First Pitch: The New New Pirates Prospects

Pirates Prospects has a new look. The site uploaded a new design last week, aimed at better featuring everything we've been building up this year. Pirates...

First Pitch: Pirates Prospects Has a New Look and No Paywall

At the end of 2019, I didn't know what I wanted this site to eventually become. I knew it needed to change, and I...

First Pitch: The Pirates Are Bad, But Let’s Not Take it Out on Their Best Player

Ke'Bryan Hayes has been praised for his defense since being drafted as a supplemental first rounder out of high school in 2015. You could chalk...

First Pitch: No Country For Old Bloggers

"I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. "My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him...

First Pitch: Alive in the Superunknown

This week feels like the old Pirates Prospects. This week feels like a Pirates Prospects that hasn't even arrived yet. This week, you're getting a preview...

First Pitch: The Pirates Prospects Rebuild

I've been undergoing a rebuild of Pirates Prospects over the last few years. When I started this site in 2009, there was no one else...

First Pitch: Jared Triolo is a Positive Emerging From the Pirates Farm System

The Pirates have a "build" mentality under General Manager Ben Cherington, with a "growth mindset" in the minors under farm director John Baker. Both can...

First Pitch: Where Have the Pirates Added Talent This Year?

The Pirates are in year three of Ben Cherington's build. They just wrapped up their third draft where they were picking inside the top...

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