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Huntington: Neil Walker Could Compete for Starting Third Base Job
Pirates.com: Huntington has indicated that there are still checkpoints the organization would like Walker to meet in the Minors before earning a promotion. However, if LaRoche doesn't show improvement by Spring Training and Walker does, Walker may force management's hand to rethink its initial...
When Hype is Just Sad
As if you didn't have enough reason to be depressed, I point you to two sad articles from Pirates.com--one about Nyjer Morgan, and one about Neil Walker. You know you're in the midst of a really bad year when the mothership has to resort to articles like this. Morgan first: However, Morgan...
The Minor League Season Winds Down
The Post-Gazette recaps the Pirates' minor league season. If I tried to recap the minor league season myself I'd probably wind up repeating a lot of stuff I wrote a couple weeks ago in my prospects list, so I won't, but I'd like to react to a few tidbits from the Post-Gazette's article. -P- At...
My Top 20 Prospects
Everyone's doing it, from Bucs Dugout readers to Dejan Kovacevic to WTM, so I may as well get in on the action. 1. Pedro Alvarez, 3B: It may seem odd to give the top spot to a guy who hasn't even played in the minor leagues rather than giving it to a player who's about the same age and is already...
Neil Walker "Thriving"!
So says Pirates.com: It's near unanimous by those who have had their eye on Walker, who is in his first full year at Triple-A, that he is playing third base at a level well exceeding his experience there... With 15 errors in 96 games for Indianapolis, Walker is down seven from where he...
The Draft is Tomorrow
With all due respect to Pat, who I think is dead-on in his writing about 99% of the time, there are a number of assertions I disagree with here (like the notion that the phrase "five-tool" doesn't really mean anything, for example), but I'll just concentrate on this one: There's a couple reasons...
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