Winter Leagues

Team USA Falls To Puerto Rico, As Mercer Helps In 9th Inning Rally

AnalysisOctober 4, 2011

Puerto Rico 8, USA 4 Puerto Rico's grand slam in the top of the 10th inning broke a 4-4 tie and gave Team USA the...

Team USA And Japan Rained Out

AnalysisOctober 3, 2011

Team USA was all set to play their first game in the World Cup/Pan Am tournament on Sunday evening. However, rain in Panama City...

Mercer And Team USA Ready To Begin World Cup/Pan Am Tournament

Winter LeaguesOctober 2, 2011

Team USA will play their first game in the World Cup/Pan Am tournament on Sunday evening in Panama City, Panama. The team features Pirates'...

Instructs Day Three: Lots of Pitching

Winter LeaguesOctober 1, 2011

The Pittsburgh Pirates played two games today against the New York Yankees at Pirate City. The games took place simultaneously, with Luis Heredia starting...

Luis Heredia and Nick Kingham Videos From Instructs

Winter LeaguesSeptember 30, 2011

There were a lot of top pitching prospects today in the two intersquad games at Pirate City. Starting off the day Luis Heredia was...

Gerrit Cole Video From Pirate City

Winter LeaguesSeptember 30, 2011

Gerrit Cole was throwing a bullpen session here at Pirate City, under the instruction of Jim Benedict. I caught the last few pitches on...

Instructs Day Two: Fryer, Hafner, Cumpton

Winter LeaguesSeptember 30, 2011

If you follow any of the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league players on Twitter, you probably saw that today's instructional league action was pretty brutal....

Afternoon Notes From Instructs 9/29

Winter LeaguesSeptember 29, 2011

Morning practices are over, and the Pirates are about to play a game against the Phillies. Some notes from this afternoon: -Yesterday I mentioned that...