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No, I can’t be bothered to find a photo of Urquidy. Photo by Dan Gaken.
I have a general rule that I do not write blog posts about minor-league signings. This is a rule I have broken from time to time, particularly during those slow offseasons earlier in the decade when the winters were so devoid of news that I was looking for any reaso...
Photo by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
“We’re looking in 2026 to make the playoffs. Period. Full stop. We did not want to veer from that. We’re pushing it all in to make sure we’re able to make the playoffs in 2026.”
That was team president Travis Williams, verbatim, on September 30 — a couple of day...
Yes, I know this is an old photo. Photo by Blackngold29.
Another PiratesFest has come and gone, and this year the Pirates avoided the embarrassments that have plagued this event of late. There was no misspelling of a player’s name, no giving away baseballs signed by Heath Hembree, and the management Q&A — usually the only aspect of ...
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Last week, I made an unorthodox trade proposal: the Pirates should try to acquire Anthony Santander from the Blue Jays, for either a couple of prospects or salary relief (or both). Santander, I wrote, was a potential bounce-back...
Photo by Keith Allison.
We’ve reached the part of the offseason where things start to slow down around baseball — and this year, that includes the Pirates. Usually, it’s hard to say there’s a “slow” part of the winter for the Bucs, because that would imply there was a time during the offseason where the team was active. But the Pirates were unusually proactive in Dec...