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 […]

The answer given to the Trib’s Travis Sawchik from MLB Network analyst Dan O’Dowd sounded as simple a solution for the Pirates’ continued improvement in the second half of this season as it was for Lester Freamon to tell Roland Pryzbylewski for advice in how to take down a drug ring in West Baltimore in […]

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 […]