Monthly Archives: January 2010
Would a new owner change anything?
Slightly overshadowing the big news yesterday that infielder Doug Bernier has been invited to Spring Training, today we found out that Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle, co-owners of the Pittsburgh… Read more
Lemieux, Burkle make offer to purchase Pirates
Dejan reports this morning that Penguins’ owners Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle made an offer to buy the Pirates four months ago. Bob Nutting repeated that the team is not… Read more
Notes: Non-Roster Invitees, Bryce Harper, 2010 Draft
A few brief notes… -The Pirates added three more non-roster invitees to Spring Training today, according to Dejan Kovacevic. Those three players are shortstop Brian Friday, infielder Doug Bernier, and… Read more
Neal Huntington weighs in on the payroll
I discussed the payroll a bit in my last post and I just wanted to follow up briefly. My main point was that we should not focus so much on… Read more
Tim Alderson at Baseball America
Baseball America will be holding chats all day tomorrow for the release of their 2010 Prospect Handbook, which I highly recommend based off the previous editions (I will hopefully get… Read more
Top Prospects
UPDATE 10:01 PM: According to Dejan Kovacevic, Baseball America ranks the Pirates as the 16th best farm system in their prospect handbook. – A lot of top prospect lists are… Read more
A few thoughts regarding the future of the payroll
Dejan posted some of his angrier mail items in yesterday’s Q&A. Most of them look something like this: Q: IT IS VERY APPARENT THAT THE PIRATE OWNERSHIP IS ONLY PROFIT… Read more
Anthony Claggett and Steven Jackson clear waivers
According to Jennifer Langosch and Dejan Kovacevic, relief pitchers Steven Jackson and Anthony Claggett have both cleared waivers and have been outrighted to AAA. Both pitchers will be non-roster invitees for… Read more
Ben Sheets is classic Moneyball
For some reason, pretty much every Pittsburgh Pirates forum I’ve checked has had some kind of topic or discussion about Ben Sheets signing with the Oakland Athletics for $10 M…. Read more
Countering Bob Smizik
I understand that Pirate fans are angry and frustrated. It is easy to look at the annual 60-something win total combined with a bottom of the barrel payroll and feel… Read more
