Tag: Elvis Escobar

Winter League and Premier12 action for players from the Pittsburgh Pirates over the last two days. Tuesday Two long-time Pirates players who just became minor league free agents saw action on Tuesday in the Premier12 tournament. Elvis Escobar pitched for team Venezuela and retired the final batter of the seventh inning, before walking the first […]

Winter recap for players from the Pittsburgh Pirates over the last four days. For the beginning of the week, see this link. The Premier12 tournament began in four different locations on Saturday, with teams from 12 different countries competing. The Pirates are represented by Cody Ponce on Team USA, Robbie Glendinning on Australia, Elvis Escobar […]

BRADENTON, Fla. – Elvis Escobar and Pablo Reyes sit on opposite corners of the Pirates’ locker room in the McKechnie clubhouse in Bradenton. Escobar is grouped with the pitchers in one corner. At the opposite corner sits Reyes, with the position player group. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, they spent several years playing […]

Yesterday’s first day of Spring Training workouts saw a lot of rain, which pushed everything indoors away from the media. So today we have some videos from bullpens. Tim Williams was able to get Chris Archer, Eduardo Vera, Luis Escobar and Elvis Escobar. He then went over to the field and got the end of […]

The winter league season got off to a very slow start for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Just a handful of players were seeing action. Once the later starting leagues began playing, the Pirates ended up with a decent amount of winter participants. Below you’ll find a recap for every player, along with a note about the […]

On Thursday, we asked readers to submit questions for a Pirates Q&A. We received a great response to the post and started answering those questions on Friday. Tim Williams started with questions about the off-season on Friday, then on Saturday, he tackled questions about prospects, the Pirates budget and Manny Machado. We left two questions […]

Three days worth of action for the remaining Pittsburgh Pirates in winter ball. On Friday night in Australia, Robbie Glendinning went 1-for-3 with his eighth double, an RBI and a walk. In Colombia on Friday, Edgar Barrios went 0-for-2 before leaving for a pinch-hitter. In Puerto Rico, Rodolfo Castro struck out as a pinch-hitter in […]

We take a look back at the last four days of winter league action for the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the season winds down for most of their players. Complete stats for each player will be listed after the most recent day that they played. On Monday in the Dominican, Alfredo Reyes (pictured above) came off […]

We released our 2019 Prospect Guide just before Christmas this year. It includes in depth scouting reports on the top 50 prospects in the system, as well as some other features that we have included in the book over the previous eight years. As promised, we would make updates anytime it was necessary prior to […]

Here’s a recap of the last two days in winter ball, as action begins to wind down for many of the remaining players. We start with four players seeing action on Saturday. In Australia, Robbie Glendinning had a big game, as his team’s offense went wild. Just one day after a 2-0 win, Perth won […]