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This is a massive article, and I don't think anyone else can write it, which is why I wrote it. You'll see people calling for Cherington/Shelton/Etc. to be replaced. This article looks at the entirety of the organization. The cliff notes: 🧵
NEW: The Pittsburgh Pirates Are Failing, From Owner Bob Nutting to the Dominican Academy
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That throw was a learning moment for Oneil Cruz.
The learning moment: Yasmani Grandal can't catch the ball.
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I'm looking forward to the outrage and changes to the Wild Card system that will come from the Yankees winning the 2nd most games in MLB and losing the WC game, all because the team with the best record was in their division, like that's never happened to any other team before.
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The
#Pirates
are probably going to have the number one farm system in baseball after this draft, the deadline, and technically John Nogowski is still prospect eligible, so there's the guy leading the pack.
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@hellolanemoore
My parents, on the brink of retirement: "We're going out to get haircuts!"
Me, a 36 year old, happily married man with no long-term financial way of having kids: "You guys make sure you take your masks! Don't talk to anyone you don't know! Make sure you know where they've been!"
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*Gerrit Cole gets a strikeout on an elevated 98 MPH fastball*
My wife: Wow! That's incredible! Why didn't the Pirates keep him?
Me: *Dies inside a little bit*
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ESPN Statcast broadcast: "It's probably hard for Pirates fans from like 2012 to think about what Charlie Morton became, what Gerrit Cole became and how that could have happened in Pittsburgh."
Let me tell you about how Pirates fans from 2019 feel...
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Bubba Chandler wearing a
#Pirates
hat during his interview, finishing the interview with "Go Pirates", talking about how he's glad to be with the Pirates, in case anyone wondering if he'll sign.
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Three of the four ALDS game winning pitchers so far were former Pirates prospects, and Austin Meadows homered last night in his first start back from an oblique injury.
The MLB playoffs is my own personal hell.
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Today is the 41st game the Pirates have played. It's also the 40th different batting order they've used. How much of this daily shuffling leads to poor results from a largely inexperienced offense?
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It's traditional for MLB players to buy food for minor leaguers after rehab outings. Joe Musgrove is throwing an ice cream party. He got a Coldstone truck for the Bradenton Marauders after tonight's game.
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The Giants won 64 games in 2017. The Rays won 80. The Pirates won 75.
Then the Giants acquired the face of the franchise from both teams.
That's very revealing about the state of MLB and the disparity between large and small market teams.
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The Pirates are in first place in the NL Central and just under 12,000 saw them win tonight because ownership doesn't care enough to put a winning team on the field or something.
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Looks like Elon Musk is now going to try to buy the Pittsburgh Pirates
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Pittsburgh seems like the most miserable fucking place.
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I realize there's hype around Skenes and Jones, but the All-Star discussion starts with Mitch Keller.
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Pirates have Liriano bobblehead night on 9/10. I wonder if each fan will get 2 prospect bobbleheads in order to take the Liriano bobblehead?
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The Pirates have Keone Kela through 2020. They've got Chris Archer through 2021. These deals not only help them this year in areas where they needed a boost, but they help the next 2-3 years, adding to a team that is mostly under control through that time and already contending.
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Take a moment today to appreciate Manny Sanguillen's cane, which is lit AF, as the kids say.
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I am very pleased to welcome
@MattGajtka
to Pirates Prospects. Matt will be joining
@ASaunders_PGH
to provide our MLB coverage and analysis in 2018. More details after the link with my average-at-best photoshop of the announcement:
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#Pirates
second round pick
@Conner1Uselton
made his pro debut in the GCL today, going 3-for-5 with a double.
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I wonder if we can get an updated Josh Bell scouting report from the anonymous SI scout?
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This is what makes Quinn Priester the best pitching prospect in the
#Pirates
system: Strikes out the heart of the order in the 6th inning on 9 pitches. He barely lets hitters get settled in the box before he casually tosses another one by them. That fist pump.
#PiratesProspects
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Go Cubs Go
Go Cubs Go
No, seriously Cubs. Your season is over and it's time for you to go.
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Colin Moran before this tweet: .245/.321/.383, 3 HR, 106 PA
Colin Moran since this tweet: .305/.340/.579, 7 HR, 100 PA
The Pirates have the worst 3B situation in baseball. Triple A teams get better production. This Elmore Leonard guy is terrible.
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Nine years ago today I started Pirates Prospects. We couldn't have gotten this far without all of you! Looking forward to our tenth year covering the
#Pirates
.
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Gerrit Cole. Tyler Glasnow. Austin Meadows. And now a Chase d'Arnaud sighting. Welcome to the first ever
@pirateprospects
Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
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I know 6 people died, but that's no reason to try and ban vape pens. This isn't effective and only hurts people who use vape pens responsibly. Take me, for example. I only have collectible vape pens, which I always keep locked in a safe, and never loaded with cartridges.
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"“Bullpen” refers to the area of a “bull’s pen” where bulls are held before they are slaughtered"
Honestly, I've seen a lot of Pirates bullpens over the years that fit this exact definition.
“Bullpen” refers to the area of a “bull’s pen” where bulls are held before they are slaughtered—it’s a word with speciesist roots & we can do better than that.
Switching to “arm barn” would be a home run for baseball fans, players, and animals 💪⚾️
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Felipe Vazquez, Keone Kela, Kyle Crick, Edgar Santana, Richard Rodriguez. All under control through at least 2020.
I like the future of the
#Pirates
bullpen.
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Rick Sutcliffe is getting on Archer about showing emotion on the mound. For perspective, Sutcliffe had a career 5.6 K/9, so he probably just isn't familiar with how to react after so many strikeouts.
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I'd rather go out of business.
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Just saw this quote from Huntington:
“When you sign a free agent, you have automatically outbid everybody else to get him 95, 99 percent of the time. You have theoretically overpaid to get that free agent.”
Overpaid? Based on what? Who determines the fair value?
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Saturday: Gerrit Cole traded
Sunday: Steelers lose to Jaguars
Monday: Andrew McCutchen traded
Tuesday: Can we give the city of Pittsburgh a break please?
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I'm very pleased to announce that
@GiantEagle
has joined
@pirateprospects
as our corporate sponsor!
They're offering an exclusive $10 off $100 deal to our readers using the code PROSPECTS10 at
Join me in welcoming them to the site!
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Charlie Morton and Francisco Liriano pitching in game seven. - The story of the 2015 Pirates on Earth 2 where they don't face Jake Arrieta.
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Anthony Solometo's delivery is ridiculous. Imagine being a hitter, trying to track the ball. Then, watch how many times he flashes the ball in how many different areas, before delivering a pitch that continues with ridiculous movement of its own.
#Pirates
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What if
The problem
With our
Mental health
Has always
Been how
We live
To work
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I have a feeling that the people boycotting the Pirates because of McCutchen being traded will one day be just as mad that Polanco is gone. The irony is that their McCutchen boycott is causing them to miss what looks like Polanco finally breaking out.
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The best news for the Rays right now is that Glasnow giving up four runs in the first inning happened in just 4 of 10,000 simulations.
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Ten years ago I started Pirates Prospects. The site was originally a place where I could write about what I saw from Pedro Alvarez in Lynchburg, while also tracking payroll. I didn't expect it to reach this point, and I have all of you to thank (especially
@JohnDreker
, our MVP).
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I'm proud that my work doesn't capture the "emotion" from those two. I'd rather fail with calm thought out analysis than succeed by being the loudest person in the room offering up hot takes.
@timwilliamsP2
@MarkMaddenX
@PaulZeise
@RichieWalsh
Your opinions lack the emotion and vigor that make writers like
@Dejan_Kovacevic
,
@MarkMaddenX
and others more popular. Play both sides within your articles too often trying to be objective. The Pirates stink and the future looks bad. Your work doesn’t capture that emotion
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The
#Pirates
are in a perfect position to add some free agent reclamation projects that they can flip at the deadline to further their rebuild. And I think this is going to be a great year for that if you have some money to spend... which they clearly do at this point.
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This week has confirmed something I've been thinking a lot over the last month: Endy Rodriguez is the top prospect in the Pirates system.
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Sean Burnett was traded for Joel Hanrahan to even out the Morgan/Milledge trade...in Washington's favor!
Hanrahan was traded for Melancon
Melancon was traded for Vazquez and Hearn
Hearn traded for Kela
Burnett led to 3.5 years each of Hanrahan/Melancon, and now Vazquez/Kela.
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If you're upset that the
#Pirates
apparently went under-slot with the 1-1 pick, keep in mind that the Astros did this successfully with Carlos Correa, which means the Pirates are only one elaborate cheating scandal away from winning a World Series.
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The Pirates should sign Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell, and Jordan Montgomery to one year deals and win the World Series in 2024. None of those players would have issues signing a multi-year deal after leading Pittsburgh to a World Series. Plus, the Pirates would get three draft
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I want to thank everyone for the support over the last day. I've already been able to start paying our writers, and the response has provided hope for the site. We still need support, so spread the word about the site and
#SaveP2
:
Appropriate cat pic:
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While Mark and I have had our differences, I think we can be united in the fact that we both honestly don't know why a lot of people follow him.
I honestly don't know why a lot of you follow me. You don't like what I have to say, just ***k off. Geez.
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Three years ago today the
#Pirates
acquired Felipe Vazquez and Taylor Hearn for Mark Melancon.
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It's early, but this goes along with my opinion that the issue the Pirates have isn't drafting, but is developing, specifically with that jump to the majors.
Tyler Glasnow in Pittsburgh: 5.79 ERA, 5.8 BB/9, 71 ERA+
Tyler Glasnow in Tampa Bay: 3.34 ERA, 2.7 BB/9, 123 ERA+
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I get the "You can't trade a first round pick" line of thinking, but Minkah Fitzpatrick looks good and was literally a first round pick last year.
This is their 2020 first rounder. They just get him a year early and you have a stronger idea of how good the player will be.
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The moment that ball is hit into RF, it means that Ke'Bryan Hayes would only be involved if the throw home goes wild and the batter tries for third. Suwinski was moving into position for that contingency.
I watched that play, and I noticed two things:
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Tulowitzki would be the best signing the Pirates could make in the sense of combining need/upside/PR. They need a shortstop. There's hope he could bounce back from this past year and be a multi-WAR player again. And his signing would probably get the attention of casual fans.
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The Pirates could fire everyone, replace them with people who implement strategies from the best small market teams, and the organization would still be limited with their success until Bob Nutting changes his approach to yearly spending.
NEW from
@timwilliamsP2
: Morning Report: Even if the Pirates Fire Everyone, Bob Nutting Will Be Holding the Team Back -
#Pirates
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Rays/Astros is going to be an amazing series.
It's also going to make it easy to imagine a playoff team with Gerrit Cole, Tyler Glasnow, and Charlie Morton in the rotation, Mitch Keller out of the pen, Austin Meadows and Josh Bell in the middle of the lineup, and Brandon Inge.
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The move this offseason would have been to fire Andy Haines and promote Jon Nunnally to Major League hitting coach. The Pirates parted ways with Nunnally and kept Haines. The exact opposite of the best move they could have made.
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Mitch Keller left tonight's game. Announcers said he was holding forearm. He just texted me & said he was stung by a bee in the forearm. 🐝🔥
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I don't know if Oneil Cruz knows this, but you're not supposed to be able to drop to your knee and hit an 80 MPH changeup 408 feet when the pitch is only a foot off the ground.
#Pirates
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Marry someone who requests that you wear a Spider-Man suit during your wedding reception.
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Thoughts on Meadows: I still think he's going to be an impact guy. But having Marte/Polanco/Dickerson, plus prospects like Martin/Reynolds/Mitchell/Swaggerty/Sanchez in the lower levels makes it easier to move him. Pirates dealt from a strength to fill a weakness.
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Is it just me, or does it feel like something special is starting to happen with the
#Pirates
right now?
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I honestly can't see how it's even legal to have Jared Jones and Paul Skenes on the same team.
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Marte before this tweet: .244/.275/.415, 5 HR, 172 PA
Marte since this tweet: .371/.418/.584, 5 HR, 98 PA
Starling Marte isn’t going to be remembered fondly by Pirates fans. Never realized his potential.
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Tomorrow the
#Pirates
will have three top 100 prospects on the mound.
-Jared Jones starting against Philadelphia at 6:40 PM
-Paul Skenes starting for Indianapolis at 6:35 PM
-Bubba Chandler starting for Altoona at 6 PM
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Here's
@ItsbuccnJoe59
giving a shout out to
@jordy_mercer
after using one of Mercer's old bats during batting practice.
#Pirates
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Tonight's schedule:
1. Write my column on the Andrew McCutchen trade.
2. Throw my laptop in a dumpster and set the dumpster on fire.
3. Drink a lot of beer and play a lot of Call of Duty in sheltered bliss from all of the outrage.
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So Todd Frazier basically watched Ke'Bryan Hayes for a few weeks and his reaction was "Yeah, I'm not getting much playing time here."
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#Pirates
first overall pick Henry Davis hits a triple off the wall in his first at-bat in High-A, thrown out at the plate trying to stretch it into an inside-the-park homer.
#PiratesProspects
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Austin Meadows (0.8 fWAR) has been more valuable this year than Andrew McCutchen (0.5 fWAR).
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Paths to contending, by team:
Giants: "What if we got all of the former Pirates?"
Pirates: "What if we got all of the former Rays?"
Rays: "What if we got a new stadium that is actually in Tampa?"
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As someone who never lived in Pittsburgh, I had no clue who Mark Madden was until a few years into covering the Pirates. I forget he exists until he randomly enters my mentions every so often. Then I remember how fun it is to fuck with him.
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It's going to be fun to see the reactions when the Pirates trade Francisco Liriano at the deadline FOR Reese McGuire and Harold Ramirez.
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Madden is a piece of trash, and I've never seen any evidence to prove otherwise.
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If only the Pirates had a site dedicated to covering the farm system, telling us for several years that the problem isn't a lack of talent, but an inability to maximize the potential of that talent.
I guess Nutting was too cheap to pay $34.99 a year.
One thing that stood out to me: Nutting's repeated references to players who performed better after leaving the Pirates. They want to draft and especially develop better. Here's part of what Nutting had to say on that...
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#Pirates
RHP Jared Jones had 103 strikeouts in 66 innings in Low-A last year. Here he adds another one on a day where he was throwing 98-100.
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I have 10,000+ followers. They follow me for sports. But I'm sure Pirates fans can appreciate my inspiration to use that following for good:
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Tanking hasn't ever been a problem. The problem is that MLB is ridiculously financially imbalanced, to the point where some teams need to strategically choose the years they can contend.
What the Mets and Padres are doing is making this problem much worse.
Acute team tanking has been a problem for baseball for a decade -- without public complaint from other teams, without even out-loud acknowledgement of the practice. Now the Mets and Padres spend big and they're forming a special committee? Really?
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In an alternate reality, Chris Archer gets traded to the Brewers and Pirates fans complain daily that Neal Huntington missed his chance at getting a top of the rotation guy.
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Today I'm announcing the launch of Pittsburgh Baseball Network in 2020.
PBN will start off as a network with five sites, including
@pirateprospects
. All five will be under one subscription. Current Pirates Prospects subscribers will already be subscribed to the entire network.
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Day two tips: If you're angry about the owner of a baseball team, maybe don't @ 18 year old kids who are excited and celebrating a huge accomplishment, and who may not share your opinion of the Pirates' organization (because the opinion is drastically different outside of PIT).
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Hidden boost to the system after all of these moves by the
#Pirates
: The first overall pick in 2022, most likely
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The Fall and Rise of the Pittsburgh Pirates: 100 Moments From The Streak -
http://t.co/yg5BD4PgLJ
#pittsburgh
#pirates
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Day one trends:
-The Pirates are drafting great names who are also interesting prospects.
-18-21 year olds are sending out joyful tweets celebrating one of the biggest moments of their life, and disgruntled Pirates fans feel the need to reply with depressing negativity.
Fun day.
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