The Pittsburgh Pirates Blog

Is it just me, or did this year's MLB entry-level draft sneak up on everyone? Not that it should be a huge surprise considering this has been regarded as one of the weakest draft classes in baseball history. While time will only tell who panned out, the fact that there's a 5'9 pitcher from lowly […]

Baseball has been America's pastime sport for ages. The tide is slowly turning towards football. More people watch football, even if your team is terrible. But I think otherwise. Baseball is not dying at all. I was at the dentist a couple days ago and had a great conversation with the secretary there. She was […]

I have been on a mission for a few weeks now to find out if it's in any way logical to put any of the blame of the Pirates complete offensive ineptitude on the shoulders of hitting coach Gregg Ritchie. My original hypothesis was that he had very little to do with it. Big league […]

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 […]

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 […]

Last July, Neal Huntington had the privilege of searching the trade market in hopes of acquiring major-league talent at the deadline. The Pirates were buyers for the first time in two decades and Huntington was able to land two bats (Ryan Ludwick and Derek Lee) for marginal minor league talent. This season, the forecast for […]