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• Most of the Pirates Are Uninterested in Winter Ball
• By Pat Lackey 9/21/2009 2:12 PM ET
• The Pittsburgh Pirates are playing some terrible baseball right now. They've won just three games in September, just 12 games since Aug. 1, and are 20-50 since July 1. After emptying their roster in ... More »
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• Pirates Offer Extensions to Freddy Sanchez and Jack Wilson
• By Pat Lackey 7/17/2009 2:33 PM ET
• Since taking over as Pirates general manager in the fall of 2007, Neal Huntington has been almost singularly focused on rebuilding the Pirates' ravaged farm system. This has necessitated trades of ... More »
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• Freddy Sanchez Could Be the Next Pirate Shipped Out of Pittsburgh
• By Pat Lackey 7/09/2009 1:38 PM ET
• With two trades already under his belt, it's clear that Pirates' GM Neal Huntington is intent on setting the trade market this year rather than waiting for it to be set by someone else. With Nate ... More »
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• Futilitywatch '09: Trade Winds Blowing
• By Pat Lackey 7/03/2009 1:00 PM ET
• Futilitywatch '09 is a our semi-regular update on the Pittsburgh Pirates and their march toward their record 17th consecutive losing season. How many teams in baseball history have traded 2/3rds of ... More »
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• History Brewing for Pirates
• By Pat Lackey 3/23/2009 7:30 PM ET
• FanHouse continues its 2009 MLB Preview with a look at the Pittsburgh Pirates. For the better part of the last decade, the Pittsburgh Pirates aimlessly wandered through the wilderness of baseball ... More »
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• The Dugout: MLB.Com Headline Theatre
• By B. Thompson Stroud 2/06/2009 10:00 PM ET
• It's the middle of the night on a Friday. The week in sports has included an Olympian cast into exile because of drugs, Kobe Bryant scoring 650 points in a single game, and the Super Bowl. Nobody's ... More »
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• Small Market Teams Do Stuff During the Winter Meetings, Too
• By Pat Lackey 12/11/2008 3:31 PM ET
• All of the focus during these winter meetings is on the big moves: signings of K-Rod and CC Sabathia, a JJ Putz trade, Jake Peavy rumors, etc. Just because the focus is elsewhere, that doesn't mean ...
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• Pirates Sign Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, First Indian Professional Baseball Players
• By Josh Alper 11/24/2008 10:25 PM ET
• It's official, the Pittsburgh Pirates have gone global. They haven't signed a working agreement with those rowdy fellows in Somalia who share their nickname nor have they followed so many others into ...
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• Footprints in the Snow: Pittsburgh Pirates
• By Pat Lackey 11/13/2008 1:04 PM ET
• Footprints in the Snow is FanHouse's look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2009. Generally, losing doesn't get you anywhere. If you do enough of it, though, you ... More »
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• Jose Bautista Is Out in Pittsburgh, Is Jack Wilson Next?
• By Pat Lackey 8/22/2008 12:26 PM ET
• It seems likely that the bulldozer that Neal Huntington is using to rebuild the Pirates with will not rest until it's eliminated most of the ruins left behind by his predecessors. After trading away ...
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• Winners and Losers of Draft Signing Day
• By Andrew Johnson 8/17/2008 7:28 PM ET
• To fans and the media, what a team does in the MLB Draft pales next to a big free-agent signing or blockbuster trade. Part of that is the gaudy figures thrown around during the hot stove season. The ... More »
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• The Pirates Open Up Their Checkbook
• By Pat Lackey 8/16/2008 2:07 PM ET
• After last night's midnight deadline for signing draft picks, it appears that the Boston Red Sox became the first team in history to exceed the $10 million mark in total signing bonuses.Given the way ...
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• Who Won and Lost During Trading Season?
• By Andrew Johnson 7/31/2008 9:08 PM ET
• Take a deep breath, baseball fans. The dust has settled after another trading deadline, and what a deadline it was. Three future Hall of Famers were moved. So was a reigning Cy Young winner and two ... More »
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• Rumor Mill Roundup: July 30
• By Andrew Johnson 7/30/2008 8:55 PM ET
• With the trade deadline right around the corner, our MLB editor brings you the top five rumors every day until July 31. - The Marlins are the forgotten team in the NL East race, but they have a very ... More »
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• The Pirates' Players Would Rather Not Rebuild
• By Pat Lackey 7/17/2008 11:48 AM ET
• If it's July, there's a good chance that whoever the current GM of the Pittsburgh Pirates is (in this case, Neal Huntington) is working the phones, trying to trade his best players off to whoever will ...
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• The Pirates Draft ... a Scott Boras Client?
• By Pat Lackey 6/05/2008 2:23 PM ET
• Wait, can this be right? Since Neal Huntington and Frank Coonelly took over the baseball operations for the Pirates last fall, fans have been wondering how the new front office will handle the draft ...
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• The Pirates Are Stuck With Matt Morris
• By Pat Lackey 4/22/2008 5:03 PM ET
• When ex-Pirates' GM Dave Littlefield got the axe last September, it was widely assumed that the final straw in his disastrous reign of terror was the Rajai Davis-for-Matt Morris trade executed at last ...
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• Sean Burnett Has a Kid, Gets Cut
• By Pat Lackey 3/28/2008 11:38 AM ET
• There's not many people that can manage to feel bad for professional athletes. Getting paid huge sums of money to entertain and play a kids game isn't exactly a profession that many people find worthy ...
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• Steve Pearce Is Being Demoted
• By Pat Lackey 3/17/2008 8:00 PM ET
• There aren't many bright sides to being a Pirate fan. Generally, there's the early part of the season that the Bucs' have a chance of being above .500, the yearly brawl where the Cubs or Cardinals ...
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• Damaso Marte Unhurt Following Car Accident
• By Matt Watson 1/30/2008 12:20 AM ET
• Pirates reliever Damaso Marte was in a car accident Tuesday in his native Dominican Republic, but it appears that he's escaped serious injury. In fact, the most serious side effect he's reported so ...
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