Throughout the 2011 season I took a look at trade values for various players, looking both at the internal options that the Pittsburgh Pirates had to trade, and the external options that they could pursue. With...
The Pittsburgh Pirates enter the 2011-2012 off-season with four big needs for the 2012 season. With Derrek Lee, Paul Maholm, Ronny Cedeno, Ryan Doumit, and Chris Snyder all departing, the Pirates have needs at catcher, first...
Born on this date in 1932 was Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Dick Stuart, who played for the team from 1958-62. He was signed by the Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1951 and as a...
Checking on Pirates' players and friends in Sunday's winter league play... The Australian League takes the early part of the week off, so their next games will be on Thursday (their time).
VENEZUELAN LEAGUE
Leones del Caracas 6, ...
The Arizona Fall League wrapped up their fifth week of action. Here is how the Pirates prospects have done so far:
-Robbie Grossman: .370/.471/.630, 7 HR, 100 at-bats
Grossman added another home run this week, and went 5-for-16...
Though there were excellent signs of improvement in 2011, the Pittsburgh Pirates are not close to contention. Next year, though, we might reasonably expect them to return to mediocrity. That's right: I'm expecting 82 wins next...
Troy Renck of the Denver Post has an article up looking at a lot of Colorado Rockies off-season notes, but in his footnotes has a mention about the Pittsburgh Pirates. Renck expects the Pirates to pursue...
Born on this date in 1953 was a longtime pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, John Candelaria. He was a big 6'7" lefty taken in the 2nd round of the 1972 amateur draft by the Pirates. He...
As mentioned last week, the Pittsburgh Pirates finished the 1904 season on October 9th in 4th place with an 87-66 record but they weren't done playing games. When the Pirates agreed to play the Boston Americans...
Winter league action for the Pirates' players and friends on Saturday night (or Sunday afternoon, for the Aussies)
MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE
Mayos de Navojoa 2, Venados de Mazatlan 1
Rogelio Noris got back into a game for Los Venados...
The AFL Rising Stars game wasn't kind to Gerrit Cole. The Pittsburgh Pirates right hander was hit for two home runs and five runs total, getting just two outs before being lifted due to a single...
Yesterday we heard that 24 players in the Pittsburgh Pirates system had elected minor league free agency. Baseball America has an update today on their minor league transactions that left handed pitcher Brian Burres has elected...
