If Gerrit Cole appears to be lost these days, perhaps your eyes aren’t deceiving you. In his last four starts, Cole is 0-3 with a 7.06 ERA in 21.2 innings. During that span, batters are hitting .348 against him with a .554 slugging percentage, including a total of 13 total bases the Houston Astros collected […]

It’s been two and a half weeks since Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline, when the expectations for any possibility of the Pirates making a run at a National League Wild Card spot became clear. Those expectations were specifically based on a handful of variables: – IF Andrew McCutchen could re-gain his form as a […]

With the uncertainty the Pirates’ starting rotation has been known for this season, there has finally been a turning point; a stabilization, a return to equilibrium. One of the men responsible for that changing of the tide is right-hander Jameson Taillon, who quietly became the starting staff’s most efficient pitcher and then cemented his status […]

When the Pirates’ lineup card was posted in the PNC Park clubhouse Tuesday afternoon, it could’ve been seen as a clean bill of health, much less a list of that night’s starters. It was also a message to both the team and anybody following it: the Pirates are back at full strength, or at least […]

Hey, remember back in Spring Training when we wondered who would hit third in the Pirates’ batting order when they decided to move the former no. 3 hitter up to second? Clint Hurdle has apparently found the answer in Gregory Polanco. And now that he’s locked into a five-year, $35 million contract extension that begins […]