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 […]

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 […]