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MLB Rule Changes Include a Quicker Pitch Clock With Runners on Base

Major League Baseball's competition committee approved four rule changes for the game in 2024. The four changes are as follows, according to Jesse Rogers...

Williams: Curtate and Prolate Players in Baseball Development

All human being development boils down to first finding our own brachistochrone curves of ascent. A brachistochrone curve is an optimal cycloid that allows the...

Williams: The Battle of the First Overall Picks

Earlier this month, I had a chance to witness live the battle between two recent first overall picks in the NBA Draft. Left: Paolo Banchero,...

Williams: Are the 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates a Winner Yet?

FanGraphs released their ZiPS projections for the 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates, providing my favorite look ahead to what could be possible from each individual player....

Williams: Winning Time

Free agency began in Major League Baseball yesterday, although baseball's offseason always starts at a crawl. The Pirates have trimmed their roster down to...

Williams: Grading Prospects By Current Value and Future Value

Over the last few weeks, I've been creating a new system to rank and project the future value of prospects in the Pittsburgh Pirates'...

Pittsburgh Pirates MLB Player Rankings and 2023-24 Offseason Outlook

Over the last few days, I've been preparing a ranking of every player from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the majors all the way to...

Williams: Addiction, Baseball, Confidence, Drugs, and Equilibrium

At the end of the day, I think we all want to return to the feeling of being children. After a long day of work...

Williams: The Path to the Major Leagues

"CALL HIM UP!" If I had a dollar for every time I've heard Pittsburgh Pirates fans type that phrase in response to a big game...

Williams: The Fart Theory

I drove back from Pennsylvania to Florida slowly over the last week, after covering a week of games in Greensboro and a week of...

Williams: Real People in the Game of Baseball

I don't think Austin Hedges got a fair shot in Pittsburgh. I place the blame entirely on the Pirates front office for setting expectations...

Williams: Ben Cherington’s Pittsburgh Pirates Trade History

Another trade deadline has passed, and for the fourth season in a row, the Pittsburgh Pirates were sellers at the deadline under General Manager...

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