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The St. Louis Cardinals today took part in a three team trade that sent young center fielder Colby Rasmus out of the NL Central.  The Cardinals ended up getting Edwin Jackson, Marc Rzepczynski, Octavio Dotel, and...

This is the 4th and final article 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.

This is the second in a series of 5 articles that will try to get Pirate fans inside the organizations of the Pirates' NL Central opponents. Next up are the Chicago Cubs, easily the most interesting club in the NL Central. They are the sleeping giant in the NL Central, because frankly there is no excuse for them not to be winning this division every year.

Wouldn't it have been great if the Pirates had gone undeafeated for the month of July and gotten back in the pennant race? Wouldn't it be great if monopoly money was real? Wouldn't it be great if cars ran on water?

John Kruk said it best on Baseball Tonight: The Pirates seem to get beat by giving up five runs here and five runs there. Why not just give up a bunch of runs in one inning? And that's exactly what they did.

Neal Huntington should recognize the position he's in now.  In 2007, he inherited a 94-loss team from Dave Littlefield, aka, The Worst GM in Modern Baseball History.  This year's Pirates stand (pending the outcome of Tuesday...

The biggest Pirates-related trade deadline drama, as we all know, has involved the possibility of them trading Felipe Vázquez.  By various reports, the Dodgers are hot to acquire the Pirates' closer, who's one of the game's...

The Pittsburgh Pirates have some players of note who are upcoming minor league free agents. Last year, the big name was Edwin Espinal, although we later found out that Jin-De Jhang was also a free agent...

I feel like it's been a weekly article this year where I've broken down the fastball usage for the Pirates. They traded Gerrit Cole to the Astros, then saw him putting up better results than ever...

From Tuesday through Friday last week, we looked at the progress of the top prospects from the 2017 DSL Pirates, GCL Pirates, Bristol Pirates and Morgantown. Then on Tuesday we looked at the 2017 West Virginia Power....

A look at how the current top 30 prospects did today. If a player is in the majors for an extended time or loses his prospect eligibility (Colin Moran, Edgar Santana, Kyle Crick, Max Moroff and...

Every Monday during the minor league season, we take a look at the top performers in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, giving scouting reports on the top ten pitchers and top ten hitters from the previous...