The Latest Breaking News from Pirates

As a new baseball season finally crept within a week, I tripped over this headline that appeared on the Post-Gazette website at the start of the day:

The Renfrewshire side still have the Scottish Cup and play-offs to look forward to after a poor end to their league campaign.

BRADENTON, Fla. — A noticeable storyline of spring training thus far has been the decent amount of competency found in the Pirates' starting rotation.

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BRADENTON, Fla. — It is, in many ways, a good problem to have: two talented prospects vying to become the long-term answer at the same position. It's also something of an anomaly. Endy Rodriguez and Henry Davis aren't bitter rivals or enemies. They both want to become the Pirates' catcher…

NEW YORK — When your season comes down to a controversial block at the buzzer, all the gains you’ve made prior to that can seem insignificant.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Last Monday, switch-hitting Pittsburgh slugger Carlos Santana stepped up to the plate against left-hander José Alvarado in the fourth inning of the Pirates-Phillies Grapefruit League game in Bradenton. The first six pitches of the at-bat went about how you’d expect. Alvarado threw Santana a 98 mph sinker,…

BRADENTON, Fla. — Connor Joe's journeyman career wasn't projected to transpire as such, at least not initially.

LAKELAND, Fla. — When Oneil Cruz was promoted to the major leagues last season, he essentially put Statcast on notice, warning that “whatever is going to get broken is going to get broken.”

The teams played an unneeded bottom of the ninth so players could get in more work.

Umpireless games are good!