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Free Agency: No Compensation Picks for Pirates This Year
ESPN lists this offseason's free agents, including its Type A and Type B free agents. Unsurprisingly, none of the Pirates free agents (Chris Gomez, Jason Michaels, Doug Mientkiewicz and Luis Rivas) are Type A's or Type B's, so the Pirates won't get any compensation picks in next year's draft--no...
Pirates Send Jose Bautista to Minors
Weird: The Pirates' starting third baseman most of the past two years was visibly stunned after general manager Neal Huntington and manager John Russell had informed him last night, in Russell's office, that he was being optioned to Class AAA Indianapolis. The move will clear space for first...
Pirates 14, Cardinals 4
If last Wednesday's game was one of the worst of the season, tonight's had to be one of the best. Luis Rivas, for example, hit a grand slam and a triple. (The triple was actually more like a single that Rick Ankiel dove past, but whatever.) When something like that happens, you're really blowing...
Pirates 6, Cubs 5
This has been a pretty exciting weekend of baseball so far. This game featured two homers by Luis Rivas, which... wow. It also featured a couple of very good defensive plays by the Pirates, a pretty funny moment in which Alfonso Soriano muffed a play in the outfield by appearing to lose the ball in...
Jack Wilson's Return: How Much will it Help?
A lot, obviously, but how much? I'm going to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations. I'm no mathematician, and I'm making a fair number of assumptions here, so what follows shouldn't be taken to be a serious projection of what will happen for the rest of the year. It's just an attempt to put...
Dear Managers, Please Stop
In the gamethread today, users Bad Andy and Hitman Easler raised the question of why in the world John Russell is letting Jose Bautista bat second. It's an excellent question. Lineups don't generally matter a whole lot, and so I've never been keen to soak up all the research out there about which...
Cardinals 5, Pirates 1
This one didn't go so well, but don't blame Paul Maholm, who gave up four earned runs despite racking up strikeouts and flashing good stuff all night. The Bucs' defense left a lot to be desired, particularly on a weird play in the sixth in which 0-for-3vas completely lost a very catchable fly ball....
Cubs 3, Pirates 2
First, an apology. Last Friday, I wrote: Today, [Nyjer] Morgan tried to run down a ball in the outfield that appeared to bounce off his knee, then tried to compensate with a ridiculous off-balance throw that didn't even seem to have a target. Later in the game, he tried to steal second and got...
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
New Pirate hire Dan Fox's recent research - and by "recent," I mean "published last week" - suggests (if I understand it correctly) that Luis Rivas is something like the fourth-worst defensive second base regular of the past 50 years.
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