The Pirates’ rotation, as it currently stands, is almost in complete disarray. The Bucs ended the season with essentially two starters, and one of them — Johan Oviedo — will soon go under the knife for Tommy John surgery, knocking him out for the 2024 season and a chunk of 2025. That means, as of […]
The Pirates need starting pitchers. This need is so obvious that Ben Cherington, the master of the obtuse, reveal-nothing statement, has admitted publicly that the Pirates must acquire starting pitchers this offseason. This need has become even more pronounced following the recent announcement that Johan Oviedo will undergo Tommy John surgery, a procedure that has […]
I don’t care what you think about the Christmas Creep — as far as I’m concerned, the holiday season kicks off when Pittsburgh holds it Light Up Night, and the city did a fabulous job of hosting the annual event on Friday. While we haven’t yet reached Thanksgiving (as of writing), it’s never too early […]
It was a pretty quiet roster deadline for the Pittsburgh Pirates, which doesn’t come as much of a surprise. There wasn’t much of a roster crunch this year; almost all of the team’s best prospects were either already on the 40-man or are not yet eligible for the Rule 5 Draft. As a result, only […]
When Peter Ueberroth took over as the sixth Commissioner of Baseball in the fall of 1984, he was not happy with his employers. In his opinion, the owners of Major League Baseball had been irresponsible with their money — just as Olympic organizers had been with their money. Ueberroth was in charge of the 1984 […]
The offseason technically begins after the World Series ends, but teams don’t really start building their roster for the next season — and thus, the offseason doesn’t really begin — until the 40-man roster deadline. And that deadline is at 6pm on Tuesday, November 14. For some background, the 40-man roster consists of the 26-man […]
I saw a Tweet on Twitter this afternoon — sorry, I meant to say I saw a Xweet on Xwitter this afternoon — claiming that this offseason was going to be much more active than last offseason. I’m not sure I buy it, because it seems like a national baseball writer make this prediction every […]
For Pirate fans, the anticipation for this offseason has equaled, and most likely surpassed, the excitement of Opening Day — at least the Opening Days of recent memory. Simply put, for the last four years, the Pirates have made little to no effort to field a contending team in Pittsburgh, despite what Ben Cherington might […]
This is the final part of an ongoing series looking back at the Pirates’ 2023 roster. Yerry De Los Santos: 24.1 IP, 3.33 ERA, 4.04 FIP, 6.66 K/9, 4.81 BB/9, 0.1 fWAR The ERA isn’t bad, but just about everything else is. The regression monster was coming for De Los Santos, and, perhaps realizing this, […]
This is part of an ongoing series looking back at the Pirates’ 2023 roster. Today, I am writing about pitchers who didn’t throw enough to warrant their own blog posts. Osvaldo Bido: 50.2 IP, 5.86 ERA, 4.10 FIP, 8.53 K/9, 3.73 BB/9, 0.7 fWAR The Pirates’ pitching staff was pretty bad this year, but it […]
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