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First Pitch: Five of My Favorite Pirates Articles This Year

Today is the final First Pitch of the year, and I'm keeping it simple. I'm working on tomorrow's year-end article, which will go up...

First Pitch: This Year’s Slow Free Agent Market

Buster Olney wrote an article on Monday that I wanted to share, talking about the slow free agent market. I thought the article was...

First Pitch: Current Pirates Offense is Better On Paper* Without Alvarez and Walker

A few weeks ago I wrote about how Gregory Polanco is the key to the offense for the 2016 season. The main point of the...

First Pitch: Why the Jon Niese Trade Is Probably Better Than You Thought

Today, the St. Louis Cardinals signed Mike Leake to a five-year, $80 M deal. As you may remember, a few weeks ago I posted...

First Pitch: The Trust the Pirates Have Earned For This Off-Season

I don't know when it happened, but there was a point in time where I started trusting everything J.J. Abrams was associated with. LOST is one...

First Pitch: You Might Be Surprised How Good the Current Pirates Project to Be in 2016

For the last few years, when the ZiPS projections come out, I do an article using those projections to figure out an overall projection...

First Pitch: Why Gregory Polanco is the Most Important Pirate in 2016

The off-season plan for the Pirates feels far from complete. They made a big move this week in trading away Neil Walker for Jon Niese,...

First Pitch: Breaking Down the Neil Walker Trade

When I tell people what I do, the first question they ask is some variation of "Are you from Pittsburgh?", which only leads to...

First Pitch: Upgrading at First Base and the Value of Elias Diaz

My baseball "career" was pretty limited. I played in little league, and played briefly when I reached middle school, until the point where two...

First Pitch: If/Then

It would be nice if the off-season was simple. You look at a team's needs, who the team might trade, how much money they...

First Pitch: Previewing the 2015 Winter Meetings For the Pirates

The MLB Winter Meetings start tomorrow and run through Thursday. This is the biggest event of the off-season in terms of potential moves, and...

First Pitch: A Slow Pirates Off-Season…For Now

Things have been pretty quiet for the Pirates so far this off-season. They've made some moves, but so far those moves have been the...

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