On Tuesday afternoon, Pittsburgh Pirates GM Ben Cherington announced that he fully expects manager Derek Shelton to return in 2025. “I think there’s a lot to the job I believe he does really, really well, and I also believe he works his tail off to continue to improve in a number of ways,” Cherington said…. read more

The Pirates won by a score of 3-1 on Wednesday afternoon to complete a three-game sweep of the Marlins at PNC Park. The three-game set, which began on Monday night, had a little something interesting in every contest. The first matchup was a Paul Skenes Night, as the rookie pitching phenom went six strong innings… read more

I suppose it was just a question of if, not when, the 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates would be no-hit in a game. After all, the Bucs went into Wednesday’s series finale vs. the Cubs at Wrigley Field with an offense that ranked in the 20s in just about every meaningful category. And the last of a… read more

The competitive phase of the Pirates 2024 season has been over for a while. Yep, they used the month of August to take an encouraging trade deadline haul and an above-.500 record and turn it into nothing. What was a 55-52 record and only a few games out of the wildcard race on July 31… read more

How many times has the Pirates bullpen, one that was supposed to be a strength coming into the 2024 campaign, blown late leads in recent weeks? It’s literally been way too many to count, but the latest one occurred last Wednesday afternoon when the Buccos built a 10-3 lead against the Cubs at PNC Park,… read more

In the world of Major League Baseball, few moments rival the excitement of a home run, but equally thrilling is witnessing a defender execute a jaw-dropping catch that denies a hitter a round-tripper. Watching the Texas Rangers Travis Jankowski rob Andrew Vaughn of a game winning 3-run-homer on August 28th made me want to research… read more

It seems only yesterday I was writing about the time the Pirates pitching staff allowed a combined five runs in a three-game series in Texas but lost two of those three games. OK, it wasn’t yesterday, but it was last week.  The constant thing about a struggling franchise (organization–this stuff is systemic, at this point)… read more

I had one of two quotes ready to unleash on Twitter (presently known as X) at the conclusion of the Pirates’ four-game weekend series against the Reds at PNC  Park on Sunday afternoon. One quote was the title of this article. The other quote was this: “The Pirates didn’t lose the series against the Reds,… read more

Just when you thought the 2024 Pirates were done, finished, washed up, and sunk to the bottom of the Allegheny River, they go and give us hope. Hope for a possible Buctober? Don’t be silly. Hell, they shot that hope to pieces when they lost 10 in a row and 15 out of 19 right… read more

How often does a team score a combined one run in two games and still split those two contests? I’m not sure, but it would likely happen more often if some squad played the 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates all the time. The 2024 Texas Rangers, your defending 2023 World Series champions, just got done playing three… read more