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The Pittsburgh Pirates won in extra innings on Opening Day, beating the Miami Marlins by a 6-5 score after a Jared Triolo RBI single in the top of the 12th inning. The Pirates played comeback the entire...
Normally, I do a pre-season analysis, where I fill in my own depth chart and playing time estimates for the upcoming Pittsburgh Pirates season, along with ZiPS projected WAR totals. This year, I'm looking at the...

Williams: Whiff

Baseball is a chess game. Every pitch is a move. Every move gets a team closer or further away from the goal of winning. Every...

Williams: Prospect Rankings

This site hasn't featured prospect rankings since the start of the 2022 season. Two years after that last list, rankings will return to this...

Williams: The Pirates Haven’t Earned the Right to Rule Like the Yankees

The New York Yankees have prioritized perception for nearly 50 years. In 1976, former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner instituted a no-facial hair policy. Since...

Williams: Has The Future Finally Arrived?

I'll be honest, I wasn't interested in covering the "build" part of this "build" as closely as I covered the last Pittsburgh Pirates front...

Williams: And We’re All Just Entertainers, Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar came up with a theory that the average person has 150 people who they recognize, name and...

Williams: Curtate and Prolate Players in Baseball Development

All human being development boils down to first finding our own brachistochrone curves of ascent. A brachistochrone curve is an optimal cycloid that allows the...

Williams: The Battle of the First Overall Picks

Earlier this month, I had a chance to witness live the battle between two recent first overall picks in the NBA Draft. Left: Paolo Banchero,...

Williams: Are the 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates a Winner Yet?

FanGraphs released their ZiPS projections for the 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates, providing my favorite look ahead to what could be possible from each individual player....

Williams: Winning Time

Free agency began in Major League Baseball yesterday, although baseball's offseason always starts at a crawl. The Pirates have trimmed their roster down to...

Williams: Grading Prospects By Current Value and Future Value

Over the last few weeks, I've been creating a new system to rank and project the future value of prospects in the Pittsburgh Pirates'...

Pittsburgh Pirates MLB Player Rankings and 2023-24 Offseason Outlook

Over the last few days, I've been preparing a ranking of every player from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the majors all the way to...

Williams: Addiction, Baseball, Confidence, Drugs, and Equilibrium

At the end of the day, I think we all want to return to the feeling of being children. After a long day of work...

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