Everyone says the Pittsburgh Penguins need a winger to compliment Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Why? They have one in James Neal. They also have two other ones in Chris Kunitz and Pascal Dupuis. So why get other another winger this offseason? It makes no sense to me. If you are the Penguins you address […]

Since Mario Lemieux in 1992, only one player has lead the league in scoring in both the regular season and the playoffs. Evgeni Malkin. Not since Wayne Gretzky's 1982 season has a player led the NHL in scoring during the regular season, and the World Championships in the same year. That would also be Evgeni […]

The Pirates are sitting at 17-20 after two straight losses in which their pitching gave up more than five runs and their offense wasn't up to the challenge. We're all curious as to where the Pirates could go this year if they could add another bat to the lineup to help the offense. The fact […]

The Pittsburgh Pirates have squandered a lot of drafts over the last two decades. But they appeared to hit the jackpot in the 2005 MLB draft when they selected a sinewy high school outfielder from Fort Meade, Florida with the 11th pick. In a draft that featured names like Braun, Zimmerman, Bruce, Tulowitzki, Upton, and […]

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It's mid-May and the Pirates are 17-19 and three games out of first place in the NL Central. How many of you thought that would be the case when the season began? That April was supposed to kill the Buccos. So, now as the weather gets nicer and the Pirates aren't out of it, you […]

Seeing free agent signings fall flat is nothing new to the Pittsburgh Pirates. After all, this franchise has endured the likes of Adam Laroche, Jeromy Burnitz, Joe Randa, Raul Mondesi and, of course, Derek Bell. While Clint Barmes's poor play hasn't reached the point where I could be considered a "saga", I still believe it […]

I'm a baseball writer. There are thousands of us all around the country, and we seem to all be writing about one player recently – Bryce Harper. This kid's been hyped up since he was a young teenager, and he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at the age of 16. He's 19 years […]