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The Pittsburgh Pirates have seen five players elect free agency from their Triple-A squad over the last few days. Edward Olivares, Jake Woodford, Billy McKinney, Ryder Ryan, and Justin Bruihl all elected free agency. All five...
The Major League Baseball Draft Lottery will take place for the third time this offseason, with teams getting a chance for the first overall pick based on their 2024 records. According to Baseball America, the Pittsburgh...

Pirates Business: Designated for Assignment

Baseball is full of roster rules and regulations that aren’t always the easiest to understand. Well, these are my favorite parts of baseball, so...

Pirates Business: How Do Optional and Outright Assignments Work?

Baseball is full of roster rules and regulations that aren’t always the easiest to understand. These are my favorite parts of baseball, so I’m...

Pirates Business: Official Year-End Payrolls Announced

It took about a month longer than it has in the recent past, but The Associated Press finally gave us their yearly gift and...

Pirates Business: The Domestic Reserve List

Prior to the 2021 season, Major League Baseball finalized a plan to streamline the minors, dropping 42 affiliated teams and settling at 120—four affiliates...

Pirates Business: Arbitration

It’s been a while, but we have another deadline! This Friday, teams and players eligible for arbitration will have to exchange salary figures for 2023,...

Pirates Business: Competitive Balance Tax Changes

For as downtrodden and destitute as Major League Baseball franchises would like you to believe they are, a lot of money has been committed...

Pirates Business: Where the Pirates Stand at This Point in the Offseason

For the holiday season, it was requested of me to keep this “light and simple”. Well, I’ve never been very good at light and simple,...

Pirates Business: Estimating the 2023 Draft Pool

To be honest, I’m always looking for something I can spreadsheet about, especially when it comes to baseball. After the lockout last year, when the...

Pirates Business: The Pre-Arbitration Bonus Pool

The new Collective Bargaining Agreement has given me so many great new features to learn about and cover: the Prospect Promotion Incentive, the draft...

Pirates Business: A History of Pittsburgh Pirates Rule 5 Selections

Lots and lots of digital ink has been spilt regarding the Rule 5 Draft around here lately, but I figured I’d give one last...

Pirates Business: A Primer for the 2023 MLB Draft Lottery

Since the offseason started, I’ve been using this weekly space to jump from one demarcation point to the next — as that’s what the...

Pirates Business: Examining the Potential Triple-A Reserve List

In an offseason as slow as Major League Baseball’s, there’s nothing like a transaction deadline. This past Tuesday was the date to file reserve lists...
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