The 2023 minor league season fully kicks off this weekend. To get you prepared to follow the prospects in the Pittsburgh Pirates system, we've put together previews for every level.
Pirates 2023 Minor League Previews
Triple-A: Indianapolis Indians
Double-A:...
The Pittsburgh Pirates announced the Opening Day roster for the Altoona Curve on Monday morning. Here's a look at the roster by positions. Note that not all of these players will be active on Opening Day,...
The Altoona Curve entered the season with one of the most hyped rosters in all of the minor leagues. They opened a couple of Top 100 prospects on the roster, and a few more that would...
The Altoona Curve wrapped up their 2022 season with a loss, dropping the final game of the season 9-8 against the Reading Fighting Phils. That leaves just the Indianapolis Indians as the only minor league team...
For most prospects, it isn’t a question of whether or not they have the stuff to make the majors, but whether they can command it enough to pitch at the highest level.
Both Quinn Priester and Kyle...
This week I've been in Altoona, watching a very loaded prospect team. I've been spending a lot of time talking with players for features that will hit the site next week.
One of the best parts of...
This month we are using the weekly premium article drops to run through the farm system, giving updates on each full-season affiliate.
That is such an easy process when covering a team like the 2022 Altoona Curve.
We...
Every one of the Pirates' full season affiliates will have a lot of prospects this year, even Indianapolis. But nobody will be as loaded as Altoona. The Curve don't have a roster up yet, but it...
This is the big one. There are good prospects throughout the Pirates' system, but probably no place will have the concentration of top ones that Altoona will have. If you go by Baseball America's rankings, and...
Altoona in 2021 fielded a lineup holding great significance for the Pirates' future. With the major league team badly needing to upgrade nearly every spot on the active roster and Indianapolis largely a prospect wasteland, the...
Over the last four days, we have looked at the home/road splits for the hitters on the four full-season affiliates of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Altoona Curve split interested me because it showed a heavy split...
Over the last two days in our First Pitcher articles, we have looked at the home/road splits for the hitters on Greensboro and Bradenton. Both cases had players with huge splits, but there were multiple players...
