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Pirates Prospects Daily: Less Is Becoming More For Jack Suwinski

Despite hitting 19-home runs last year, Jack Suwinski posted a below league average wRC+ in 2022. A lot of that was due to a...

Pirates Business: Minor League Splits

The season is almost upon us and come this time next week, I’ll be breaking down the opening day payroll for the Pittsburgh Pirates....

Pirates Business: Options Remaining For the 2023 Pittsburgh Pirates

This week, as players are starting to get sent down to minor league camp, we're breaking down how many options are remaining for members...

Pirates Option Cal Mitchell; Nick Gonzales Gets Reassigned to Minor League Camp

The Pittsburgh Pirates made two more roster cuts after Sunday's game. Outfielder Cal Mitchell was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis. Infielder Nick Gonzales has been...

Pirates Business: Who Could Qualify for the Prospect Promotion Incentive?

Coming into 2023 and we’re now in Year 2 with the new Prospect Promotion Incentive—PPI for the cool kids—in place from the new Collective...

Pirates Roundtable: Which Spring Training Roster Battle Are You Watching?

The Pirates have anything from a set roster. They've added a lot of free agents this offseason, but those free agents will only help to...

Williams: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

One of the things I like about the FanGraphs ZiPS projections this year is the inclusion of the 20th and 80th percentile estimates. The typical...

Pirates Business: The Domestic Reserve List

Prior to the 2021 season, Major League Baseball finalized a plan to streamline the minors, dropping 42 affiliated teams and settling at 120—four affiliates...

Williams: The Pirates Have Improved Their Depth at the Major League Level

There has been a lot of talk the last few years about the depth that the Pittsburgh Pirates have collected in their minor league...

Looking at ZiPS Projections to See Where the Pirates Should Add in 2023

Last week, Dan Szymborski released his 2023 Pittsburgh Pirates ZiPS projections at FanGraphs. This is one of my favorite projection systems, and every year I...

P2Daily: Way Too Early Look At A Potential Loaded 2023 Indianapolis Lineup

There is so much that can happen in a baseball offseason, making any kind of prediction about a potential makeup of a minor league...

WTM: Projecting the Pirates’ Possible Position Players at the End of 2023

The Pirates' lineup went through some far-reaching changes during the course of the 2022 season.  This was their opening day lineup, which gave a...