Author Archives: Kevin Creagh
The Prestige of Small Payroll Baseball – San Diego Padres 2010
The story of the 2010 Padres is one about Pitching and Divorce. Pitching and divorce are not typically two words that one associates together, but if you think about it both are settled by an independent arbiter and someone is usually unhappy about the resolution.
The Prestige of Small Payroll Baseball – Texas Rangers 2010
This is the 2nd in a series of articles examining how small payroll teams have found success in recent years. The goal is to try and determine what methods were successful in an attempt for the Pirates to emulate them.
The Prestige of Small Payroll Baseball – Minnesota Twins 2008-09
Every year some team does it. There’s always at least one team that contends for a division title, or makes the playoffs, or even advances to the World Series on a payroll that dwells in the umbra of the Yankees’ world. And then every fan and talking head wonders why their favorite team can’t do the same thing. But if it were that easy, there wouldn’t be a need for the gargantuan payrolls that exist in the game.
Only Bucs Top 30 Pirates Prospect Voting – Monday 12/13/10
For the 3rd year, Only Bucs will be running a series of polls to vote on the Top 30 Pirates Prospects. The voting starts Monday, December 13th, 2010 and will… Read more
Pirates’ 2010 Offseason – An Inflection Point
The body is on the slab and it is barely cold, but it is time to put the corpse known as the 2010 Pittsburgh Pirates to rest. This season was one for the history books, but not the good kind of history. But the strange part is that I still have hope.
Know Your Enemy – Cincinnati Reds
This is the fifth in a series of 5 articles that will try to get Pirate fans inside the organizations of the Pirates’ NL Central opponents. This final article will look at the rising power in Pittsburgh’s sister city, the Cincinnati Reds. I expect the battle that is going on between the Reds and the Cards this season to continue for the next few years.
Know Your Enemy – St. Louis Cardinals
This is the fourth in a series of 5 articles that will try to get Pirate fans inside the organizations of the Pirates’ NL Central opponents. This article will look at the gold standard of the NL Central in recent years: the St. Louis Cardinals. While the Cubs may have the most supportive fans, perhaps no city in all of MLB has more knowledgeable fans than the Cardinals.
Know Your Enemy – Milwaukee Brewers
This is the third in a series of 5 articles that will try to get Pirate fans inside the organizations of the Pirates’ NL Central opponents. This article will look at the Milwaukee Brewers, a team that the Pirates get compared to the most (along with the Cincinnati Reds) in terms of what our market can bear payroll-wise.
Week in Review 8/30/10-9/5/10
Tim hit the road to report live from State College, Williamsport, Altoona, and will head down to West Virginia, all part of his season-ending minor league tour. It was a… Read more
Altoona Survives Reading Phillies, 3-2
The crowd of 6,003 on this cool September night were treated to a decent group pitching performance after Derek Hankins went out after 3 shutout innings with an apparent injury. Mike Colla… Read more
