Author Archives: WTM

Callups, or the possibility of them, gathered a lot of attention during the past week.  Injuries forced the Pirates to bring up two relievers and more injuries, combined with anemic… Read more »

There weren’t a lot of extreme performances one way or the other in the past week.  Several pitchers, including Rudy Owens, Aaron Pribanic, and Brandon Cumpton, combined one good start… Read more »

The biggest news for the farm system came at the end of the week, with reports that Josh Harrison and possibly Dusty Brown would be promoted to the Pirates to… Read more »

This week I thought I’d address a series of “What if . . . . ?” questions, as in “What would the Pirates do if they needed a (insert position… Read more »

This week’s edition is sponsored by George Romero.  (Well, not really . . . .)  Halfway into May, the Pirates have had a handful of prospects come back from the… Read more »

Jameson Taillon started showing why he’s gotten the hype, but otherwise it wasn’t a great week for the Pirates’ farm system.  Few of the more significant pitching prospects are pitching… Read more »

It was a tough week, as a couple of the system’s hottest hitters–Josh Harrison and Ramon Cabrera–missed time with injuries and few of the team’s top pitching prospects had good… Read more »

This was a somewhat short week for some of the Pirates’ affiliates, due to the usual April rainouts.  Altoona got some strong starting pitching, but the other affiliates mostly didn’t…. Read more »

This will be a weekly feature that takes a look at which prospects in the Pirates’ system are trending up and which are trending down.  The idea isn’t exactly to… Read more »