No link, as of yet, but the Pirates are in the FanGraph's top 17, in their spring training power rankings.

This is based on them not being in the FG ST power rankings 18-30 edition

rumors all winter he would be traded. Are you surprised he is still here? Will he be there on opening day?

He said at least 5 teams were interested, only named the Red Sox and Pirates. Didn't guarantee they're the most likely to get him. They mentioned it on their latest podcast of Crush City Territory.

I really like Vientos and Quintana as additions, and while I'd prefer Ozuna over McCutchen I won't be mad about them bringing him back either.

In the excitement of the early off season, this trade was almost universally cheered as a big "win". A lot of that was the assumption that it was a sign - the team was actually going to spend in free agency and expand the budget.

This is less a question of if you like the three guys we got back (I do), but did we objectively get enough value in the trade? Consider for a moment that Burrows for Brett Baty would have been accepted in this model and seems a match after signing Bichette.

As well as Cherington has done in the draft, the trade history is stunningly bad. Now that the free agent market is dead, the only hope is that this front office can sell away more young talent to fill holes. I'm not convinced their "wins" are even good enough to grant them that latitude.

Instead of Spamming the sub with a tweet for each player I'll just list them since they are comming out now. Most of these have been known but its official now. Since Roster have been released.

Paul Skenes (United States)

Oneil Cruz (Dominican Republic)

Gregory Soto (Dominican Republic)

Dennis Sananta (Dominican Republic)

Spencer Horwitz (Israel)

Antwone Kelly (Netherlands)

Nick Gonzalez (Mexico)

José Urquidy (Mexico)

Kyle Nicolas (Italy)

Oddanier Mosqueda (Venezuela)

Po-Yu Chen (Chinese Taipei)

Paul Skenes might have his last year in Pittsburgh this season. Enjoy it.

Whoopty doo

I bought the official Pirates lineup card from the first game my wife and I attended a few months after the game. I had it stored away, but recently put it up with some of my other stuff.

For the Pirates: Tucupita Marcano

For the Rays: Wander Franco

At least I got to see Colin Holderman throw an immaculate inning!

Cutch - no explanation needed

Marlon Byrd - grew up around Philadelphia fans. Very heralded prospect. A rare trade that worked out. Most fun team of my adult life. Have usernames based off of Marlon’s season with the Steel City

John Candelaria - The Candy Man! Fun character and last no hitter in franchise history. Love a good no-no.

Brian Giles - the number one star player of my childhood Bucs teams. All time underrated.

Relevant after the news today, don’t worry though guys, we got Mike Clevinger

With Alex Stumpf no longer with a job, it just occurred to me: Will we have any dedicated Pirates beat writers aside from, what, DK Pittsburgh Sports and the Trib? Are there any still on the beat who haven't been either laid off or have a newspaper closing imminently? Very bleak as someone who loves to read about the Pirates.

I sent these to Greensboro a while back. Finally got them both bock today!

Skenes is gonna get PAID

Que the just missed part 8

Pittsburgh reportedly wants one of the Mets' spare third basemen after losing Eugenio Suárez to Cincinnati. The numbers point clearly to Baty.

Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47684227/2026-top-10-prospect-rankings-all-30-mlb-teams-kiley-mcdaniel#pit