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Prospect Watch: West Virginia Wins Seventh Straight, Four For Fortunato

Top Pitcher: Orlando Castro, Top Hitter: Raul Fortunato, Home Runs: Fortunato, Hague, Schwind

Pirate City Results: All The Home Runs

This time of year the pitching rotations in the Spring Training games get kind of crazy. Minor league rotations aren't like big league rotations....

Prospect Notebook: Hafner Having Success With New Slider; Kingham and Fuesser Pitch Well

The Pirates took on the Blue Jays in three lower level minor league games.  The two class A squads hooked up, while the teams...

Prospect Notebook: Seeing Two Pitchers For the First Time; Brewer Hits 95

Today I got to see two pitchers for the first time. For the last year I've seen Wei-Chung Wang walking around in a red...

State College Spikes 2012 Season Recap: Pitchers

In the past, State College has been known as "The Fastball Academy". The Pirates have sent young pitchers here to focus on their fastball...

Ryan Hafner Struggling With His Control This Year

Coming out of his first full professional season in 2011 since being drafted, Ryan Hafner was one of the State College Spikes best starters....

West Virginia Bats Get Shutdown; Von Rosenberg Not As Good As Stat Line

The West Virginia Power lost game two of their three game series with the Lakewood Blueclaws by a 2-0 score, one day after throwing...

Give Ryan Hafner Some Time Off

In the movie Anchorman, the sportscaster Champ starts to ramble about his man-love for Ron Burgundy, prompting the line "Why don't you take a...

Minor League Schedule: 7/22/12

State College will play a doubleheader today. The second game is a makeup of Friday's rain out.  Both DSL teams as well as the...

Minor League Schedule: 7/15/12

Indianapolis is in first place in their division, and they have the best record in the entire International League. They have an 11 game...

Still No Wins for West Virginia’s Hafner

West Virginia pitcher Ryan Hafner is still searching for his first win of the season after registering a no decision in the Power's eight-inning...

Minor League Schedule: 7/8/12

Indianapolis is playing their last game before three days off for the International League All-Star break. Top pitching prospects, Jameson Taillon and Gerrit Cole...