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http://www.whygavs.com/ - "Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon." -Andy Van Slyke In the Canyon: 16 years and counting ...
Midnight tonight is the deadline for teams to set their 40-man rosters, meaning that to protect guys from the Rule 5 draft they have to be added by then. Before today the Pirates' roster was functionally at 38, after adding Jose Ascanio and Evan Meek back in from the 60-day DL. John Perrotto is ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Jose Ascanio
Evan Meek
Bryan Morris
Justin Thomas
Free agency kicked off last night at midnight. The Pirates have not signed John Lackey yet, and so I'm going to picket PNC Park when I'm home over Thanksgiving. OK, I'm being dramatic. Neal Huntington says he's going to move slowly , and that's the right approach for a team in the Pirates' ...
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New York Yankees
Haven't done one of these in a while, so let's catch up with the Pirate prospects playing in various parts of the Western Hemisphere this fall.
The Arizona Fall League is wrapping up today. Heading into the last game, Jose Tabata is hitting .363/.425/.478. The high batting average is nice, ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
In celebration, some Jim Tracy Rhetorical Questions ! Did I think he would win? Yes I did. Am I happy about it? Well, I hate to bear a grudge, but no, not particularly.
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Jim Tracy
Pittsburgh Pirates
When looking through Dan Szymborski's ZiPS projections for 2010 (which were posted last week), my initial reaction was almost identical to my reaction to last year's ZiPS: "Damn, this team is going to be bad." My second reaction was this: "Wow, these projections don't see a whole lot of room ...
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Andy LaRoche
Pittsburgh Pirates
I don't really want to talk about the Rookie of the Year vote. I wrote up two different posts trying to solidify my thoughts about the vote and why I disagree with Coghlan winning the award, but the easiest thing I can say is that I still think the BBWAA is too focused on statistics that aren't ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
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Andrew McCutchen finishes fourth . We knew it
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Chris Coghlan is NL Rookie of the Year
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BaseballProjection.com released their 2010 CHONE projections for hitters over the weekend. You can check out the Pirates' projections here . Since I've already done a longer post on the Bill James projections and I'm planning on doing another one when more of these come out over the winter, I ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Ronny Cedeno
Chone Figgins
MLB released its list of arbitration eligible players today. You can find the entire list here . For the Pirates, Zach Duke, Ronny Cedeno, Matt Capps, and Jeff Karstens all qualified, with Karstens just barely making the service-time cut. Because Karstens is only in his first year of ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Zach Duke
Ronny Cedeno
Matt Capps
Jeff Karstens
Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi reported yesterday on their blog that the Pirates would be willing to listen to offers for Ryan Doumit this winter and "not hesitate to move him" should the right offer be made. I think that pretty much everyone that's seen how Neal Huntington operated over the ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Ryan Doumit
Ken Rosenthal
Neal Huntington
Great, great stuff from No Mas and artist James Blagden. The audio is from an interview with Dock Ellis that apppeared on NPR's "Weekend America" about nine months before his death last December. I could watch this all day.
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Ross Ohlendorf is keeping a blog of his experiences as an intern with the US Department of Agriculture. This makes me a little more excited than I probably should be, but hey, the offseason gets boring some times.
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Ross Ohlendorf
Pittsburgh Pirates
There's a decided trend thus far in the early offseason. The Rays have traded Akinori Iwamura to the Pirates for a cost-controlled young reliever, despite a big talent gap between the two players. The Brewers traded their best trade chip, J.J. Hardy, to Minnesota for Carlos Gomez, a young ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Akinori Iwamura
Once upon a time, in the early days of WHYGAVS, there was a pretty heated debate between myself and some of the commenters about Jason Bay's value on defense. This was before really advanced defensive metrics were widely available on the internet and I was arguing that while Bay had a weak arm ...
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Zach Duke
Pittsburgh Pirates
My parents came into town this weekend, so I'm a bit behind on the latest happenings (if you can call them that) in Pirate-land, and so I've got some catching up to do.
First, the Pirates outrighted Eric Hacker, Virgil Vasquez, and Steve Lerud off the 40-man roster on Friday, which brings the ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Jose Tabata
Latest sign that things are slowly changing on Federal Street: when the Red Sox traded for Jeremy Hermida yesterday and only gave up two minor league arms, I didn't go apopletic about the Pirates not being involved. Hermida seems like an intriguing buy-low candidate, but if he came to ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Jose Tabata
Jeremy Hermida
And so, the 2009 season wraps up with the Yankees winning the World Series. The team with the biggest payroll, the brightest stars, and the prettiest girlfriends win again. I see people on my Facebook from Western Pennsylvania that I'm fairly certain have never even been to New York crowing ...
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The more I think (and read) about this trade, the more I like it for a few reasons. The first reason should be obvious; Iwamura makes the Pirates better at a position of need without giving much up. He's not blocking anyone from playing in the immediate future, so why is becoming better in 2010 ...
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Akinori Iwamura
Developing . No word on who's going to Tampa. More later.
UPDATE: The Post-Gazette reports that it's Jesse Chavez for Iwamura and an unknown player . (Update to the update: no other player)
Analysis Update: I have mixed feelings about this trade. I did mention Iwamura as a player to target ...
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Akinori Iwamura
Tampa Bay Rays
Developing . No word on who's going to Tampa. More later.
UPDATE: The Post-Gazette reports that it's Jesse Chavez for Iwamura and an unknown player . (Update to the update: no other player)
Analysis Update: I have mixed feelings about this trade. I did mention Iwamura as a player to target ...
