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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Alvarez #3, d'Arnaud #13 in BA Top 20 Carolina League Prospects Pedro Alvarez and Chase d'Arnaud were the two Lynchburg Hillcat selections on Baseball America's Top 20 Carolina League prospects. With an eight-team league, landing multiple prospects on this list isn't as difficult as it is in some other leagues--the 2006 Hillcats had three players (Neil Walker, Brett Lillibridge and Brian Bixler), and...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
More photos » by Tom Mihalek - AP about 1 month ago: Florida Marlins' Chris Coghlan follows through on his three-run triple in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, in Philadelphia. The Marlins won 12-3. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek) Browse more photos » A few weeks ago, I read an article that talked about how the Pirates are considering...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 11:04 p.m. Monday What has been witnessed over the past month at PNC Park is the worst stretch of baseball the Pirates have played in nearly a century. Well, almost witnessed. A paid crowd of 12,566, with slightly more than 4,900 actually passing through the turnstiles, saw the 11-6, 11-inning loss to the San Diego Padres tonight, the 20th loss in the past game 23 games. Stop...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
Lineup San Diego Padres @ Pittsburgh Pirates 09/20/09 1:35 PM EDT San Diego Padres Pittsburgh Pirates Everth Cabrera - SS Andrew McCutchen - CF David Eckstein - 2B Ronny Cedeno - SS Adrian Gonzalez - 1B Lastings Milledge - LF Chase Headley - 3B Ryan Doumit - C Oscar Salazar - LF Brandon Moss - RF Edgar Gonzalez - RF Steve Pearce - 1B Will Venable - CF Neil Walker - 3B Henry Blanco - C Luis Cruz - 2B...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 8 a.m. Thursday Click here to submit a question. We have Qs ... __________ Q: How much longer is this going to go on? I there any chance that Major League Baseball will consider having a salary cap, or are certain teams like the Pirates going to be farm teams year after year? Shawn McLane of Wheeling , W.Va. KOVACEVIC: There is little reason to think it will end soon, Shawn. As...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
by David Zalubowski - AP View full size photo uploaded September 11, 2009 This will undoubtedly be the most controversial of the minor league reviews I've written, because it involves perhaps the two most controversial Pirates right now, Garrett Jones and Neil Walker . A note before we begin: I believe minor league stats matter, and I believe minor league stats, and particularly AAA stats, are very...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Lineup Chicago Cubs @ Pittsburgh Pirates 09/09/09 12:35 PM EDT Chicago Cubs Pittsburgh Pirates Kosuke Fukudome - CF Andrew McCutchen - CF Ryan Theriot - SS Delwyn Young - 2B Derrek Lee - 1B Garrett Jones - RF Micah Hoffpauir - RF Brandon Moss - LF Jeff Baker - 3B Steve Pearce - 1B Mike Fontenot - 2B Neil Walker - 3B Bobby Scales - LF Ronny Cedeno - SS Koyie Hill - C Jason Jaramillo - C Carlos Zambrano...
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The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
The turn of the baseball calendar to September means two things: pennant races heating up for the teams still left in contention, and looking forward to next year for the rest of the lot. Fans in Kansas City, Cleveland and Pittsburgh get a chance this month to catch a glimpse of the future, and for those in Pittsburgh, that means a future of trading these players away once they get good enough to contribute...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
By Mike White | Tuesday, Sept. 1, 3:15 p.m. The Pirates called up Neil Walker today, and it brought back some memories of the 2004 Pine-Richland graduate. Obviously, Walker was a tremendous baseball player in high school. But what many people sometimes forget is how talented he was in football. And on top of that, remember he was also a pretty fair basketball player until he gave up the sport his...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Because we just can't have enough Neil Walker threads. Virgil Vasquez is coming too. Scott McCauley has more. In other minor league news, Pedro Alvarez 's minor league season is over as he prepares to play in the World Cup. Minor league reliever Dustin Molleken is going too, and not to pick on Molleken, but until I realized he's going because he's Canadian, I was wondering how that worked. Coach #1:...
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Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
More photos » by Gene J. Puskar - AP 25 days ago: Pittsburgh Pirates' Andrew McCutchen ( 22) hits a two-run, fourth-inning home run off Washington Nationals pitcher Tyler Clippard in a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. It was McCutchen's third home run of the game. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Browse more photos » Pittsburgh Pirates Top 20 PRE-SEASON Prospects in Review...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Frank Coonelly: This year's trades slashed about $7 million from the Pirates ' payroll. But the team also spent $5 million to build a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, increased its budget for scouting and held firm on a $10 million budget for draft bonuses at a time when other clubs are cutting back. "If we're doing this right — and we think we are — then there will come...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 12:40 a.m. Tuesday A bright thought to begin your morning: The Washington Nationals now have won eight in a row. The Pirates, since moving into PNC Park in 2001, have had one winning streak that long in that entire time, that a 10-0 run June 26-July 5, 2004. I will be traveling to Denver through the morning and afternoon and, thus, unavailable for updates until I get to Coors...
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