Tim Williams, Owner
Prior to starting Pirates Prospects, Tim worked for AccuScore.com, where he provided content to various national news outlets, including ESPN, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Sports, and Versus. Tim covered the NFL, MLB, NHL, and college football. Baseball has always been his favorite sport, and growing up in Pennsylvania made him a Pirates fan. Tim has always been interested in the business side of the game, specifically on transactions, rules, and events such as the draft and the trade deadline. This interest is what gave Tim the idea to start Pirates Prospects.
Tim is a credentialed media member with every team in the Pirates’ system, including the Pirates themselves. He’s a regular guest on Extra Innings on 104.7, as well as Sports Central with Cory Giger on ESPN 1430 in Altoona and ESPN 1450 in State College. He has also appeared on several other Pittsburgh radio stations, including ESPN 970, 93.7 The Fan, and TribLIVE Radio.
Kristy Robinson, Pirates Beat Writer
Prior to joining Pirates Prospects, Kristy spent a year as the Beat Reporter covering the Pittsburgh Pirates for Ohio Valley Athletics. Kristy will be covering the Major League team for the site.
Kristy studied Fashion Design and Communications at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, California (2007) and Broadcast Journalism at Kent State University (2010). While living in L.A., Kristy spent several years as an actress in T.V. shows and movies. She realized she wanted to be a baseball reporter after attending games at Dodger stadium and meeting Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully. Kristy was raised in East Liverpool, Ohio and grew up going to Pirates and Cleveland Indians games in the 90’s. She first fell in love with the game at five years old while playing in the front yard with her older brother, Mike and played softball until College.
Matt Bandi
Matt is a lifelong Pirates fan that has spent his entire life in the Pittsburgh area. His earliest Pirates memory was Sid Bream’s walkoff home run on Richard Caliguiri day in 1988. He did not shed a tear when Bream’s desperate October scramble broke the city’s heart four years later. Instead, he sat frozen in front of his television, stunned by the disaster he had just witnessed.
Matt graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. He has covered the Bucs at Wait ‘Til Next Year (9/2006 – 9/2007), Pittsburgh Lumber Co. (9/2007 – 2/2011), and now Pirates Prospects. He served as Pirates team expert for Heater Magazine in 2009 and 2010 and has contributed to Graphical Player 2009, 2010 and 2011. Matt was the editor of the 2011 Pirates Prospects Annual, released in 2/2011.
Kevin Creagh
Kevin Creagh resides in the suburbs of Pittsburgh and has been a Pirate fan since the mid 1980′s. Kevin joined Pirates Prospects in July 2010 and enjoys writing about the economic side of baseball decisions.
Many of Kevin’s articles focus on the long-term decisions that the Pirates and other organizations may need to make in the future, in order to balance escalating player salaries with built-in payroll limitations. Kevin also enjoys following prospects throughout the Pirates’ minor league system and forecasting their potential to help the major league team.
John Dreker
John was born in Kearny, NJ, hometown of the 2B for the Pirates 1909 World Championship team, Dots Miller. In fact they have some of the same relatives in common, so it was only natural for him to become a lifelong Pirates fan.
Before joining Pirates Prospects in July 2010, John had written numerous articles on the history of baseball while also releasing his own book and co-authoring another on the history of the game. He writes a weekly article on Pirates history for the site, has already interviewed many of the current minor leaguers with many more on the way and follows the foreign minor league teams very closely for the site. John also provides in person game reports of the West Virginia Power and Altoona Curve.
Randy Linville
Randy is currently living and thriving in suburban Dayton, OH with his wife and two kids. He was raised in Cincinnati, OH and attended Anderson High School. He went to Miami University (Ohio) and received a degree in Paper Science Engineering from MU. He is a devout Christian and a pop culture buff. He coaches his son’s baseball and basketball teams and his daughters softball and basketball teams.
Randy has been a Pirates fan since the late 1970s and has fond memories of the 1979 World Series team. He began blogging for Most Valuable Network in 5/2004 after stumbling across a help-wanted sign for a Pirates blogger. He wrote for Pittsburgh Lumber Co. until the site merged with Pirates Prospects in 2/2011.
Terry Mathews
Terry Mathews has been a Pirate fan since before he can remember. His parents took him to his first game when he was 3 because it was cheaper to buy a 50 cent ticket at Forbes Field than to pay a baby sitter. While his two older brothers fell asleep before the 7th inning stretch, Terry was still wide awake watching the entire game. His first true memory of a Pirate game was at the age of 6 when Blass leaped into Robertson’s arms to celebrate the 1971 World Series championship. His favorite all-time player is Willie Stargell. And some of his favorite childhood memories are listening to Pirate games on his grandparents’ porch sipping on an RC cola.
Terry is new to Pirates Prospects in 2011 and will be covering several games in Bradenton, from spring training to the Marauders and the GCL Pirates, offering views on the prospects he sees.
Wilbur Miller
Wilbur Miller joined the site in July 2010. He has long been known for his excellent Player Profiles, which he brought to the site in February 2011, combining them with the existing Pirates Prospects Player Pages. Wilbur maintains the player pages section of the site, and provides regular articles to the main portion of the site, including a weekly Prospects Trend piece, featuring the best and worst prospects from the previous week.
