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Umps blow call, Bucs blow up [Pirates 1 Cardinals 11]
Raise the Jolly Roger! — Really miserable game tonight, and the Pirates have no excuses for getting dominated by a horrible pitcher and giving up about a zillion runs with bad pitching and defense. Still, allow me to rant about a very strange play that occurred in the first inning. It’s more interesting than anything else that happened in the [...]
50 mins agoGame 103 Liveblog: Pirates at Cardinals
Raise the Jolly Roger! — Game 103: Pirates at Cardinals ©2010 Raise the Jolly Roger. All Rights Reserved..
4 hours agoGameday #103: Oh yeah, the game
Raise the Jolly Roger! — Pirates (36-66) at Cardinals (57-46) 7:15 PM EST–Busch Stadium, St. Louis Here is the MLB.com Gameday TV: FSN Pittsburgh, FSN Midwest The trade deadline was obviously the main topic off the day, but the Pirates do step on the field for a real baseball game shortly. The two are not completely unrelated, though – the [...]
4 hours agoPirates send Octavio Dotel to Dodgers
Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke? — Per Ken Rosenthal (and confirmed all over with full names), the Pirates have sent Octavio Dotel to Los Angeles for what I think is James McDonald and Andrew Lambo. McDonald is the great get here; he's 25 and though he's had trouble cracking the Dodgers rotation the last two years, he's got great minor league numbers. Before the Dodgers used him in the bullpen through most of 2009, he was Baseball America's 56th best prospect. He's in Triple-A right now, but presumably could be called up and put in the Pirates' rotation right away. Lambo's a decent prospect with a PED suspension drug of abuse s...
6 hours agoBrief trade deadline recap: Neal Huntington's offseason pays dividends
Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke? — Over the winter, Neal Huntington went out and signed a bunch of players that didn't really overwhelm everyone. Bobby Crosby, Ryan Church, Octavio Dotel, Javier Lopez, and DJ Carrasco were all guys that had a chance to make the 2010 Pirates better without blocking prospects from playing, but didn't offer much in the long-term. Today, Huntington flipped all of those guys in three trades, bringing back various levels of return. For the relatively valueless Crosby and Church and middle reliever Carrasco, he picked up Chris Snyder, a catcher who should bridge the gap to Tony Sanchez without sending...
6 hours agoAftermath
Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke? — There is a game tonight, but I'm fried and I'm going to walk away from the computer for a while. Dan McCutchen goes for the Pirates and he's got a pretty short bullpen behind him tonight, as Javier Lopez, Octavio Dotel, and DJ Carrasco aren't in it. I'm not sure what moves the Pirates can make to shore it up, either, as the last two trades came late in the day. At least he'll be facing Jeff Suppan (unless Jake Westbrook really high-tails it from Cleveland to St. Louis tonight). Remember the first pitch is early (for the midwest) at 7:15. I'm not going to do a Clemente/Cangelosi update, but as ...
6 hours agoPirates trade Javier Lopez to Giants for Joe Martinez
Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke? — Javier Lopez's short Pirate career comes to an end today, as he's been shipped to San Francisco for Joe Martinez. Martinez is a 27-year old pitcher who's never had much success in the big leagues as a fifth-starter type, but I suppose he may be somewhat useful to the Pirates in the next year or two. His minor league strikeout rate isn't great (7.4 K/9 innings), but he doesn't walk a ton of players and his home run rate is quite low (0.5 homers/9 innings). That's because he has a pretty good career groundball rate (~55% career) in the minors, which is presumably what Huntington sees in him and ...
6 hours agoOctavio Dotel Traded to Dodgers for James McDonald and Andrew Lambo
Raise the Jolly Roger! — The Bucs have acquired pitcher James McDonald, and OF prospect Andrew Lambo in return. The immediate reactions I’m reading say that this trade is a massive win for the Pirates. More soon. Javier Lopez was also traded to San Francisco a few minutes ago. ©2010 Raise the Jolly Roger. All Rights Reserved..
8 hours agoThe rest of deadline day
Raise the Jolly Roger! — After completing one deal late last night/early this morning, will the Pirates be able to make any more moves before today’s fast-approaching 4 PM deadline? Here’s some of the most recent buzz: 3:36 PM: DK tweets that the Bucs may be on the verge of trading lefty reliever Javier Lopez. And from earlier in the [...]
8 hours agoPirates trade Javier Lopez to Giants for Joe Martinez and John Bowker
Raise the Jolly Roger! — According to CSN Bay Area, and DK. Joe Martinez doesn’t appear to be anything special, but then again…neither was Javier Lopez, I guess. Martinez is a right-handed starting pitcher (27 years old) with pretty solid minor league numbers and pretty bad major league numbers in limited duty. We just learned Bowker was added to the [...]
8 hours agoNext game at St. Louis Cardinals on Sat, Jul 31 7:15 pm EDT
Opponent news and rumors snapshot:
- Game Update: Cards vs. Pirates St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Help is coming, but can Cards help themselves? St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Round Two: If not Oswalt, then whom? St. Louis Post-Dispatch
MLB Trade Deadline 2010 Countdown
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Paul Maholm
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- Brewers standing pat for now Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Assistant general manager Gord Ash said the Brewers never came close to a trade in the final hours before the non-waiver deadline expired at 3 p.m. Saturday.
- Saturday game report: Brewers at Astros Milwaukee Journal Sentinel INSIDE PITCH
- Full count: Making 'em count Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Entering Saturday, Brewers rightfielder Corey Hart was averaging a run batted in every 4.8 at-bats, the best mark in the National League. The leaders: Corey Hart, Mil 4.8 Scott Rolen, Cin 4.9 Ryan Howard, Phil 5.0 Joey Votto, Cin 5.0 Jonny Gomes, Cin 5.1 David Wright, NY 5.1
- Brewers' slide hits four in a row Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Brewers turned in another of their stinkers Saturday night, getting whipped by the fifth-place Astros, 6-0, at Minute Maid Park. By getting blanked in the first two games of this series, the Brewers stretched their scoreless drought to 23 innings.
- Brewers going nowhere fast Brewers Blog | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Houston – There was a time, not that long ago, when the Milwaukee Brewers were what the Houston Astros are now – a rebuilding team infusing young players into the lineup with energy, enthusiasm and focus.
- Astros shut out Brewers 6-0 after trading Berkman Houston Chronicle On the day franchise icon Lance Berkman was officially traded to the New York Yankees, the Astros relied heavily on the new guard to pound the Milwaukee Brewers in a 6-0 victory Saturday before 38,824 at Minute Maid Park.