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Pirates Prospect Watch: Charles McAdoo Continues Breakout With Another Home Run

Charles McAdoo hit his third home run in eight games at the Double-A level. On Sunday afternoon, McAdoo launched the home run in the...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Patrick Reilly Completes a Great Month in Greensboro

Patrick Reilly has been one of the breakout prospects in the lower levels of the Pittsburgh Pirates system this year. Drafted in the fifth...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Hunter Barco Strikes Out Nine in Five No-Hit Innings

The Pittsburgh Pirates scaled back the workload of left-handed pitcher Hunter Barco this month. Barco opened the month allowing eight runs in 4.2 innings...

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Statcast Heroes: Bat Tracking Updates, Hitter vs Pitcher Counts, Nick Gonzales

Major League Baseball released their Statcast bat tracking data this month, providing a deeper dive into the swing of each hitter. I took my...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Big Weeks From Matt Gorski and Braxton Ashcraft

Every week, minor league baseball takes a break on Monday, with the exception of the action in rookie ball. That gives an opportunity to...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Termarr Johnson Homers on Three Hit Day

Termarr Johnson picked up three hits on Sunday, including his second home run of the season, as Greensboro won 7-4 at Hickory. Johnson is only...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Accept No Imitations

The Pirates Prospect Watch has been running on Pirates Prospects for parts of 15 seasons, making its debut in late August 2010 as the...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Bubba Chandler Leaves Start Early

Bubba Chandler left his start early on Friday, after dealing with control problems. Chandler walked his first two batters, then issued three more walks with...

2024 Pittsburgh Pirates Top 50 Tiered Rankings Version 2.0

We are about six weeks into the 2024 minor league season, and some trends are beginning to develop in the Pittsburgh Pirates system. Those...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Sean Sullivan Throws Seven Shutout

Sean Sullivan led the Altoona Curve to a 4-1 victory on Thursday, pitching seven shutout innings against Akron. This was the longest outing of...

Pirates Prospect Watch: J.P. Massey Leads Greensboro to Victory

J.P. Massey had his best start of the season for Greensboro on Wednesday. The right-hander allowed one run on four hits in six innings,...

Statcast Heroes: A Pirates Themed Introduction to the New Bat Tracking Data

Major League Baseball released their latest massive update to the publicly available Statcast data, introducing bat-tracking data this week. For an intro to the...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Braxton Ashcraft Strikes Out Ten in Seven Shutout Innings

Braxton Ashcraft had his best start of the year on Tuesday afternoon, tossing seven shutout innings for Altoona. The right-hander allowed four hits, one...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Bradenton is on a Ten Game Winning Streak

The Bradenton Marauders have won ten games in a row for the first time in franchise history, after sweeping all six games last week...

First Pitch: The Pirates Need to Stop Optimizing Their Lineup to Optimize Their Lineup

On Sunday, the Pittsburgh Pirates played their 41st game of the season. The lineup that manager Derek Shelton submitted was the 40th different batting...
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