It’s time to recognize a situation for what it really is instead of what it’s purported to be. When the autopsy of the 2016 Pittsburgh Pirates is conducted, the cause of death will not be a middling payroll, an unwillingness to increase said payroll or even trade-inflicted. If this team is indeed doomed to die […]

The answer given to the Trib’s Travis Sawchik from MLB Network analyst Dan O’Dowd sounded as simple a solution for the Pirates’ continued improvement in the second half of this season as it was for Lester Freamon to tell Roland Pryzbylewski for advice in how to take down a drug ring in West Baltimore in […]

Hey, remember back in Spring Training when we wondered who would hit third in the Pirates’ batting order when they decided to move the former no. 3 hitter up to second? Clint Hurdle has apparently found the answer in Gregory Polanco. And now that he’s locked into a five-year, $35 million contract extension that begins […]