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Pirates Hire Pitching Coach Brent Strom

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The Pittsburgh Pirates hired Brent Strom to be their assistant pitching coach, as reported by Noah Hiles of the Post-Gazette. Strom is a highly regarded pitching coach, who has spent time with Houston and Arizona over...

Pirates Hire Matt Hague As Their New Hitting Coach

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have hired Matt Hague to be their next hitting coach, according to Scott Mitchell of CSN. Hague was the assistant hitting coach for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2024, after three years as...

First Pitch: The Pirates Made the Right Call Moving Oneil Cruz to Center Field

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On Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced that they will be moving Oneil Cruz from shortstop to center field. The move is one that makes sense...

Williams: Raising the Roof on the Pirates Hitting in 2025

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I've written all season about how the Pittsburgh Pirates need to upgrade their offense. As a team, they rank among the worst in the...

First Pitch: Paul Skenes Stops the Pirates Losing Streak

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Paul Skenes didn't have his best stuff on Friday night, but he pitched the Pittsburgh Pirates out of their ten game losing streak, leading...

Saturday Sleepers: A History of Trading Early For High Upside International Players

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At this year's trade deadline, the Pittsburgh Pirates paid half of Martin Perez's remaining salary to get LHP Ronaldys Jimenez back in the trade. The...

First Pitch: The Type of Hitting That Can Make Oneil Cruz a Star

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The Pittsburgh Pirates lost 9-8 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. The highlight of the game was a 5-for-5 performance from shortstop Oneil...

First Pitch: Oneil Cruz, Michael A. Taylor, Ke’Bryan Hayes, and Offense vs Defense

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Defense is the most under-appreciated aspect of the game of baseball. It's almost expected, to the point that it's taken for granted. The Pirates have...

First Pitch: The Pittsburgh Pirates and Player Extensions

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After last night's 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Pirates now sit 51-49, half a game back from the third Wild...

Statcast Heroes: Oneil Cruz, Luis Ortiz, Liover Peguero, Axiel Plaz

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The Pirates went 3-2 over the last week, closing out a series win against the Reds, before losing a three game series over the...

Williams: Oneil Cruz, Jared Triolo, and Active vs Passive Mindsets in Baseball

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After whiffing at a breaking pitch that traveled out of the zone for strike two on Saturday, Oneil Cruz stepped out of the box. He...

Statcast Heroes: Oneil Cruz, Rowdy Tellez, Triple-A Pitching Depth, Javier Rivas

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The Pittsburgh Pirates went 2-4 over the last week, while scoring just one run in three different games. They had some good starts from...

Statcast Heroes: Oneil Cruz, Matt Gorski, Omar Alfonzo, and Plenty of Velocity

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I've been focusing on the new bat tracking data over the last two weeks with the Statcast Heroes articles. This week I'm getting back...

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

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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...
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