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Tiant threw 57 innings for the Pirates when he was 40. "Luis Tiant was a legend when I was a kid." I had a dream about Tiant. I was a rookie, and he was throwing batting practice. I hit a few liners, and was feeling pretty good. The guys in the dugout were nodding their approval. Then Earl...

One thing that has to be kept in mind is that the salary is only half of the deal. The other half is the term. I think that since Nutting assumed control of the team, they haven't gone past three years (Liriano, Nova) in a true free agent situation where the player wasn't already salary-controlled f...

This is an "all star" team of players signed by the Pirates as amateurs (or acquired from foreign leagues) in the NH/BC era. The stars are selected based on their calculated fWAR (because Fangraphs data is easy to sort) as Pirates. fWAR in parentheses: Stallings - c (5.7) Alvarez - 1b (6.6...

sounds like greenies are coming back.

Again, I think it's code for the analysts to say "Jump" and the field staff to ask how high.

Also BC yesterday: ""I think we also want to build a team, a hitting team that is really working together, and so that it's not all on one person to bear the burden of the offensive performance of the team. I don't think that's the best way in modern baseball. It was that way for a long ti...

$38.5 million sounds about right to Nutting. For the whole payroll. I think that's pretty much where they went with Liriano's second deal, 3/$39 million. I think that's the biggest deal NH gave out to a true free agent, where they weren't getting a discount on a player they already controlled? My g...

One thing to consider about Rose: he only managed the Reds four full* seasons, and he brought the Reds home in second place four straight times. The team fell apart the next season, which Rose managed most of before his suspension. The next season, Piniella took over, and the team led wire-to-wire, ...

Widely reported:

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as Pirates fans think about how he was supposed to have teamed up with Gerrit Cole as part of a dominating Pirates rotation that never would be.

Anyone else notice that this is probably the first season that the big four of Cole, Taillon, Glasnow, and Keller have all had decent years?

The Pirates won't trade Oneil. They wouldn't pass up a year of frustration over his center field defense.