Pittsburgh Pirates Rumors & News

By Travis Sawchik, Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewJust beyond the season’s quarter pole, the Pirates are on pace to win 96 games. The club is off to its best start since 1992, ...

By Rob Biertempfel, Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThe home run Pedro Alvarez hit Sunday afternoon was not the longest, loudest or most majestic of his career. But given the context of when ...

By Travis Sawchik, Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewSo often this season, the Pirates’ bullpen bailed out a starting pitcher unable to pitch deep into a game. The bullpen posted scoreless innings, allowing ...

By Travis Sawchik, Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewPirates star Andrew McCutchen was scratched from Sunday’s lineup due to soreness in his right knee. There was no immediate update on his condition. The ...

By David GolebiewskiAfter a turbulent April, Pirates starting pitchers have the third-lowest ERA in the majors during May and boast an overall ERA (3.90) slightly under the ...

This was not the typical, majestic Pedro Alvarez home run. In fact, the home run the Pirates third b

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jeff Locke allowed three hits over seven innings, Pedro Alvarez homered and the Pi

Lucas Harrell threw 98 pitches Sunday, and most were very good.

Jeff Locke allowed three hits over seven innings, Pedro Alvarez homered and the Pittsburgh Pirates w

Mark Melancon isn’t perfect after all. The Pirates set-up reliever saw his streak of 13 consecutive

SOUTH HILLS COMMAND CENTER – The advanced numbers and the sabermetric community contend Pirates lefty Jeff Locke cannot sustain the performance he has authored to date.  After seven shutout innings against the Astros on Sunday, Locke has lowered his ERA to 2.73.   Locke continues to strike out too few batters and walk too many. [...]

PNC PARK  - On Thursday I did my best, and perhaps failed miserably, to rank the Pirates’ 25 most valuable assets. Trade-value lists are interesting exercises. And engaging in a team-specific exercise offers something the popular league-wide lists do not: you are able to better identify an individual organization’s surpluses and weaknesses. The Pirates have [...]

SOUTH HILLS COMMAND CENTER – This is not a list tied only to 2013 value, rather, it’s all-encompassing value ranking. The list takes into account present skills, future projection, age, contract and club control. It’s essentially the trade value list ESPN’s Bill Simmons made famous.   It contains a wide range of players from current [...]

SOUTH HILLS COMMAND CENTER – When Andrew McCutchen barreled-up a Mike Fiers 2-2 fastball in the bottom of the 12th last night at PNC Park, he had little confidence it was going to clear the fence. After all, he had made solid contact with two pitches earlier in the game, fly balls that seemed to lose [...]

SOUTH HILLS COMMAND CENTER – On Monday the Cubs locked up their young, talented first baseman Anthony Rizzo with a seven-year, $41 million deal, a contract that includes a couple club options. While it’s life-changing money for a 23-year-old, it’s probably going to be a mega bargain for the Cubs.   In the early 1990s, then [...]