OK, the headline for this article is a little misleading. When you see words like “Pirates,” “managed,” and “ineffective,” you probably think Pittsburgh’s brain trust has taken Paul Skenes’s enormous pitching talent and turned him into a pitch-to-contact guy, a la Gerrit Cole back in the day. You probably think Skenes has been ineffective over… read more

Over the last 5-10 years when thinking about the face of Major League Baseball, I think of Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Altuve and a few others. While most of those men are still relevant to the sport, I believe that the torch has been passed to the next generation of talent. A… read more

Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run home run in the top of the first inning at Great American Ball Park, which proved to be the catalyst for a 9-5 Pirates win over the Reds on Tuesday night. Yay! Maybe it’s not that big of a deal. After all, Pittsburgh went into Tuesday’s affair losers of two… read more

When I heard that Pirates legend, Andrew McCutchen, drove a ball off the right-field wall and managed to leg it into a triple in the bottom of the third inning of what would be a 4-3 victory over Tampa at PNC Park on Saturday afternoon, I got super excited. I found the highlights on social… read more

I was going to predict that the Pirates would take two of three from the Rockies at Coors Field over the weekend, with both wins happening on very effective bullpen days, and the loss coming via a pummeling of Jared Jones, but I forgot. In all seriousness, Pittsburgh did take two of three from the… read more

There are few major cities in the United States where baseball, our former national pastime, still reigns supreme over football and the NFL. St. Louis, home of the baseball Cardinals, is one of those towns. Cards fans have celebrated 19 National League pennants and attended 11 World Series parades. They’ve cheered for some of the… read more

Baseball can be a weird and random sport. Take the Pirates’ success against Los Angeles in recent years. The Dodgers have become the Yankees of the West thanks to their seemingly limitless financial resources, yet, Pittsburgh had won 10 of the previous 15 games between the two squads before Thursday night’s series finale at PNC… read more

It may have been the Pirates vs. the Dodgers in Game 1 of a three-game series at PNC Park on Tuesday night, but metaphorically speaking, it was David vs. Goliath. It was the team with the $228 million payroll vs. the one with an $83 million payroll. It was 38-23 vs. 27-32. It was the… read more

It was announced last week that Barry Bonds, Jim Leyland and Manny Sanguillen will comprise the 2024 class of inductees into the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Fame. The Pirates will honor the three men before a game against the Reds on Saturday, August 24, at PNC Park. Sanguillen, a three-time All-star catcher with the Pirates… read more

Bailey Falter took a shutout into the eighth inning, and second baseman Nick Gonzales drove in four runs, as the Pirates defeated the Braves,11-5, in the first game of a weekend series at PNC Park on Friday night. Pittsburgh built an 11-0 lead and managed to keep the game a semi-blowout despite another shaky performance… read more