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First Pitch: Veteran Leadership

First Pitch
My sports highlight yesterday had nothing to do with baseball. The Denver Nuggets beat the Los Angeles Lakers last night, and in the process, the veteran leadership from Russell Westbrook was on display. If you're not an NBA...

Pirates Prospect Watch: Five Standouts From the Spring Breakout Game

Prospect Watch
The Pittsburgh Pirates took on the Philadelphia Phillies in the second annual Spring Breakout game on Friday, putting the prospects of each organization against each other on MLB Network. While the game had the televised feel of...

Gajtka: Forget What We Think. Do The Pirates Expect To Keep It Up?

Free Columns
PITTSBURGH -- I asked about a month ago if it was too early to adjust our expectations for the Pirates. At that time, the team...

How Pirates’ Various Successes Can Feed Off One Another

Analysis
PITTSBURGH -- Baseball is a team sport, but not necessarily a synergistic one. A batting lineup can run hot or cold, but that has little...

“There’s only 30 of those guys. That’s who I want to be, and that’s who I feel I can be.”

Analysis
The Pirates wanted Cole Tucker to build off his late success from last year in Altoona. Tucker had a strong finish to the year,...

Was This Hot Start Critical For The Pirates? Depends On Who You Ask

Analysis
We could argue that a team like the 2018 Pirates needed to fashion a fast break out of the starting gate to have a...

Buckling Down in ‘Brutal’ Conditions, Pirates Produce Best Start Since ’93

Analysis
PITTSBURGH -- No one in the Pirates' clubhouse wants to dwell on the fact that nearly every minute of their first nine games have...

Injury Updates: Steven Brault Takes Over in the Rotation With Joe Musgrove on the DL

Injury Updates
PITTSBURGH - In 2017, the Pirates used just seven starting pitchers and had five players take 25 starts or more as the rotation went...

Gajtka: Vanilla Veterans Limit Pirates’ Potential More Than Youth

Columns
If a time traveler from six months in the future approached me, I would be curious about a great many things, most of them...

Pirates Avoid Arbitration with Mercer, Kontos and Cole; Rivero will Go to Arbitration

News
Today is the deadline for Major League teams and players to exchange arbitration figures. The Pittsburgh Pirates have four players who are eligible for...

Pirates Tender Contracts to All Four Arbitration Eligible Players

News
The Pittsburgh Pirates tendered contracts to all four of their arbitration eligible players on Friday night. Pitchers Gerrit Cole, Felipe Rivero, George Kontos and...

2017 Recaps: With Prospects on the Way, Jordy Mercer’s Time as the Starting Shortstop is Limited

Season Recaps
The Pirates could do a lot worse than having Jordy Mercer as their starting shortstop. Mercer entered the 2017 season as the starter for the...

Jordy Mercer Taking More of a Leadership Role With the Younger Players

Analysis
PITTSBURGH — As I’ve been writing about what Pirates players hope to accomplish in the final weeks of the 2017 season, for the most...

Pirates Notebook: Jordy Mercer Has Become One of the Best Eighth Place Hitters in the NL

Analysis
PITTSBURGH — Jordy Mercer is hitting seventh in the Pirates’ lineup on Friday against the San Francisco Giants, but he’s become one of the...
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