Pirates fans have plenty of reason to look at their franchise and feel a sense of doom. It’s bound to happen when the team hasn’t had a winning season in seventeen years and call for its contraction on an almost monthly basis. There is, however, some good stuff mixed in with the crap. Andrew McCutchen [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Pittsburgh Pirates’
8 Sep
Bus Leagues Road Trip: PNC Park, Part Deux
Just over two months after my first visit to western Pennsylvania with my brother Tim and two friends, I went back to the Keystone State, this time with my wife. Our anniversary was Friday, we both had a three-day weekend for Labor Day, and the free Pirates tickets I won in June were burning a [...]
3 Aug
Average Distance From Majors To Affiliates: National League Central
(A blog was nice enough to link to this post last week – I can’t seem to find the name – and one of the commenters noted that I had left out the Cardinals affiliate in the Gulf Coast League, which changes the team’s overall average but not it’s placement on the list. The new [...]
7 Jul
The Great Baseball Road Trip of 2009: Day Three – June 27 – Baltimore to Pittsburgh to Harrisburg
The Pittsburgh Pirates are a joke as a baseball team and an organization (and that hurts to say, seeing as Amherst, New Hampshire’s own Neal Huntington is the general manager), but this must be said: I could see a game in every ballpark, major and minor, in the world and I’m not sure I would [...]
5 Jul
Rinku And Dinesh Are Officially Bus Leaguers
The moment Andrew told you about on Wednesday has arrived, ladies and gents: Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel are officially professional baseball players. Technically, I guess they’ve been pros since they signed contracts with Pittsburgh, but now they can say that they have actually played in a game. After their planned debuts were rained out [...]
5 Jun
The Z-Meter: 6/5/2009
The Z-meter tracks the story arcs of 25 top prospects (or players we just like) on their way to the bigs. It is named after current Washington Nationals star Ryan Zimmerman, who made the transition from anchoring the University of Virginia to starring in MLB in one year. Promoted: Jordan Zimmermann: Syracuse Chiefs (AAA) to [...]
4 Jun
Now Batting For The Pittsburgh Pirates…
Andrew McCutchen was called up to the major leagues yesterday by the Pirates to replace the freshly traded Nate McLouth, in a case of a team trading its best player and replacing him with its best prospect. McLouth’s debut in Atlanta isn’t underway yet, but McCutchen got his first start for the Bucs today, leading [...]
4 Jul
Now Batting For The Pittsburgh Pirates
I’m a couple of days late on this (that’s what I get for not checking me email more often), but it must be noted that the Pittsburgh Pirates called up outfielder Steve Pearce, the organization’s third-ranked prospect, to replace pitcher Matt Capps. Capps is expected to be out for eight weeks or more; it’s not [...]
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