Honest Wagner

Box scores like this raise questions about mischief in spring training. Here are two teams that will play each other twenty times during th...

Later date, Jai Lai man .

Mac and Littlefield have the right idea with the way they are introducing the rookies. As we argued before, you don't guarantee playing...

From last night's AP tale : McClendon insisted Rick Reed, Ryan Vogelsong and Sean Burnett, all pitching during the final two days of cam...

The Bucs will make a decision about Rick Reed soon. Since he was half decent in his last start, I expect they will try to keep him around, e...

Sam Ross Jr. has the latest on the attempts to trade Kendall. Buy low, sell high I say. Kendall is overpaid by the standards of the curr...

He might be coming back too. Damn, we were so close. I find it hard to believe. Our Shelton-is-a-stud misinformation campaign appeared to g...

Robert Dvorchak is asking great questions. From his notebook : Why keep Oliver Perez on the major-league roster if he's not completely d...

Welcome back , Agent Brooks. We're eager to learn what intel you gathered working undercover in Oakland and Boston.

Last June, when Joe Beimel pitched every damn day and the Pirates were taking it to the Red Sox, the Braves, and the Blue Jays, I was paint...

Mac also loves Castillo's defense. He says this: "Our major concern is not what either one [Hill or Castillo] is going to do offens...

Compare Littlefield on rushing prospects to the big leagues (third blockquote) and Mac on the same subject . The Pirates jumped Jack Wilso...

I'm often abused for my contempt for Aramis Ramirez, no doubt because I haven't been persuasive when I rant about his (aborted) futu...

It's a freebie, so I can link to it . These things are great. Mike "Go Hard or Go Home" Johnston figures in the cast of nobodi...

John Perrotto has a nice run-down of the state of the minor league system. There is good and bad. The good is all the winning after six yea...

I find John Perrotto's case for Hill persuasive. Any tie should go to Hill. For what it's worth, I made my case for him last week ....

Brian O'Neill has another snarky Stats Geek essay for the Post-Gazette. He argues that the Pirates won't win another 75 games this ...

Six innings, four hits, one walk, eight strikeouts. Solo home runs allowed to two of PECOTA's favorite players - Wily Mo Pena and Adam D...

With Merced's release today, Mac needs a left-handed pinch-hitter off the bench (esp. on the days that Randall Simon starts). As Joe Rut...

Some moves announced. Guthrie, Merced released. Abad, Acevedo, Corey, and Roberts to Nashville. "The plan for the future is promoting ...