0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/10/2014
On Monday morning, I woke up wondering exactly what it would take to get Gregory Polanco into a Pirate uniform. I’d thought for most of the spring that June 17th would a the likely Super 2 call-up date, but most analysts seemed convinced that the time for that had come and gone right around the […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/9/2014
I see that there’s some big news that’s broken between when I was last at my computer (which was at the end of this game) and now, but let’s handle the recap first and Polanco second. For at least one night, Charlie Morton helped allay my fears about this Cubs’ series with one of his […]
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I’m just going to say it up front: this series could be trouble for the Pirates. The Pirates are coming off of a really disappointing series against the Brewers capped off by a frustrating game on Sunday that really kept them from making any headway in the NL Central race. They’re without their best pitcher, […]
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Sources: #Pirates in agreement with first-rounder (24th overall) Cole Tucker on $1.8M bonus. Below slot of $1.9255M. Will be official Weds. — Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) June 9, 2014
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/8/2014
The Pirates are 29-33 and eight games behind the Brewers. They’re 3-10 against the Brewers this year. In two of the four series they’ve played against them, they won the first game of the series in crushing fashion and then lost all of the rest of the games in the series. In the last three […]
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If you had told me before this series started that the Pirates were going to split the Brandon Cumpton/Edinson Volquez games with the Brewers, I think that I would’ve been pretty excited. I am obviously less excited now that Jeff Locke is starting the series finale instead of Charlie Morton and that he’s doing it […]
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In the grand hierarchy of pitcher injuries, elbow problems have gained a sort of resigned gloom these days. You know that a forearm or elbow twinge probably means UCL problems (unless very specifically specified otherwise, like in the case of Yordano Ventura earlier this year), and you know that that means Tommy John surgery. Tommy […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/6/2014
First things first; if you want draft news from today, you should probably just head on over to Pirates Prospects. As always, Tim and his staff have their finger on the pulse of this stuff in a way that I don’t, especially once we get past the first couple of rounds. If you missed it […]
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I mentioned this briefly last night, but the more I sit back and think about this, the more I think that the driving force behind the Pirates’ selection of Cole Tucker was his age. Tucker won’t be 18 for another month, which really does make him almost a full year younger than a bunch of […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/5/2014
Picking at #64 and #73, the Pirates took two high school pitchers in the second round of the 2014 draft. With the #64 pick, they took Mitch Keller, a righty from Iowa who has a commitment to pitch at UNC (which I hear is a nice school) in 2015. At #73, they took Trey Supak, […]
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There were quite a few interesting first-round talents still on the board with the Pirates picking at #39, but they’ve gone off the beaten path again by picking Connor Joe, a catcherr from the University of San Diego. Joe wasn’t ranked in the top 100 by Baseball America. I suppose it’s possible that the Pirates […]
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The first really surprising selection of this year’s MLB Draft was made by the Pirates at #24, by taking Cole Tucker, a high school shortstop from Arizona. I don’t have a whole ton of information about Tucker right in front of me, as he was ranked in the bottom half of most scouting organization’s Top […]
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I will freely admit it: I haven’t paid a whole ton of attention to the run up of the draft this year. This is partially a consequence of my general situation (moving, trying to graduate, etc.) and partially a consequence of the Pirates being a Real Baseball Team now and having Real Baseball Team worries, […]
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The Pirates thew a one-hitter tonight and lost 3-2 and that … Yeah. Image: David Jackmanson, Flickr
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/4/2014
Gregory Polanco may or may not be coming up on Friday, but it looks like this is going to be more complicated than it first appeared. After the jump, let’s look at the whole situation.
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Before we get started, there are two really good reads about the Pirates’ early-season struggles that were published at national websites today that I think you should take a look at. The first is Mike Petriello’s long look at the Pirates’ mammoth pitching issues at FanGraphs and the second is Jonah Keri’s “how did the Pirates […]
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A funny thing happened last night: completely overwhelmed with the second straight night of very-late-night-baseball, I fell asleep while the Pirates were batting in the eighth inning and holding a 4-1 lead, but wasn’t worried at all about the outcome of the game when I woke up this morning. The Pirates weren’t really at their […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/3/2014
The Pirates can probably stay in the wild card race by hanging around .500 for the next six weeks or so, but if they’re going to re-enter the National League Central race, it’s probably going to have to happen this week. The Pirates blew the Padres’ bullpen wide open last night, and with Gerrit Cole […]
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Here’s what I can tell you about last night’s torturously long, blearily late Pirates/Padres game: every time I woke up and found the game still on, the Pirates had the bases loaded. The Pirates loaded the bases in the third, fourth, sixth, and seventh innings last night, though they didn’t actually get any damage done […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey on 6/2/2014
There’s nothing tougher on an East Coast fan than mid-week West Coast series; I always end up staying up until the end of these games and then feeling like a total zombie for most of the week.. The Pirates have a pretty important three-game set against the Padres in San Diego this week, as they […]
