PIRATES RUMORS & GOSSIP

Olney: Yanks want Jones for Burnett

More news on the A.J. Burnett front. Apparently there are some legs to this story and the speculation that the Yankees want Garrett Jones appears to be true. My feelings on a Jones for Burnett and cash trade are very mixed. With as mediocre as Jones is, the deal, in theory makes sense. However, outside of Jones, the Pirates outlook at first base looks quite bad. Burnett would help...
Via North Side Notch  |  2 hours ago
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2012 Fantasy Baseball: The Pittsburgh Pirates starting rotation preview

Jeff Karstens (credits below) The Pirates always seem to have a pitcher or two you can find in the bargain bin who turns out to have fantasy value.James McDonald and Paul Maholm are among the pitchers who have posted good fantasy numbers on a bad Pirates team in the past few years.Last year, it was Charlie Morton and Jeff Karstens who rewarded those fantasy owners who likely took...
Via The Fantasy Fix  |  5 hours ago
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Keith Law’s Top 10 Pirates Prospects

Law has Zack Dodson rated higher than any other outlet. Along with his top 100 prospect list, Keith Law has released his top ten prospects for each team. The list for the Pittsburgh Pirates starts out in the exact order as order in the top 100 list. Gerrit Cole comes in first, followed in order by Jameson Taillon, Josh Bell, Starling Marte, and Robbie Grossman. Luis Heredia, who...
Via Pirates Prospects  |  11 hours ago
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Five Pirates Ranked in Keith Law’s Top 100

Gerrit Cole is the tenth best prospect in baseball, according to Keith Law. Keith Law has released his top 100 prospects list, and five Pirates prospects are ranked. The list is for ESPN Insiders only, and can be viewed here. The top Pirates prospect, according to Law, is Gerrit Cole, who was named the 10th best prospect in the game. Law has always been high on Cole, ranking him...
Via Pirates Prospects  |  11 hours ago
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Pittsburgh Pirates: The Team Who Cried Wolf

Follow me on Twitter @jim_krug Everyone knows the nursery rhyme about the boy who joked about seeing a wolf so many times that, when he finally does tell the truth, none of the townspeople believe him, and his flock of sheep (and in some versions, the boy himself) is promptly devoured. One of the most famous of Aesop’s Fables, the moral is that “liars are not rewarded...
Via isportsweb.com  |  16 hours ago
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Breakdown of MLB.com’s Top 20 Pittsburgh Pirates Prospects

MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo released his list of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ top 20 prospects heading into the 2012 season today. Mayo ranks 2010 no. 2 overall draft pick 20-year-old Jameson Taillon as the team’s top prospect, with Gerrit Cole, the 2011 no. 1 overall pick, second. Outfielder Starling Marte comes in third and 19-year-old outfield project Josh Bell fourth...
Via Rant Sports  |  1 day ago
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Dmitri Young, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Other Players to Look At

I thought that the Pittsburgh Pirates had hit rock bottom when they signed Clint Barmes to a two year, $10.5 million deal this offseason. He is coming off a year in which he hit .244, only played 123 games, hit 12 HR’s and stole 3 bases, and struck out more than twice as often as he walked. Aside from an uncharacteristic season in 2008 in which he hit .290, the 33 year old...
Via Bacon Sports  |  1 day ago
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MLB.com’s Top 20 Pirates Prospects Released

Jameson Taillon was named the Pirates' top prospect by MLB.com Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com released his top 20 Pittsburgh Pirates prospects for the 2012 season today on MLB.com. Click the link to go over and check out the rankings, along with a video on each player. Mayo also breaks down the Pirates’ system in this article. The top four prospects are no surprise. Jameson Taillon...
Via Pirates Prospects  |  1 day ago
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Dmitri Young to work out for Pirates

tweeted: Dmitri Young (nicknamed “Da Meat Hook”) hasn’t played since 2008 and has had some serious weight and health issues in the past. But now, the 38-year old has slimmed down big-time and is looking to make a comeback. ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick wrote a good piece about Young’s efforts to make it back to the bigs, and it includes this awesome quote that...
Via Raise the Jolly Roger!  |  1 day ago
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From the 'I can't believe this is actually happening' file

Pittsburgh Pirates and Manager Clint Hurdle plan on working out Dmitri Young next week at the Pirates Spring Training complex @ Bradenton FL — JIM BOWDEN (@JimBowdenESPNxm) February 7, 2012 SteakGrowsOnDmitri. (Seriously, I have nothing to add here. Young was a perfectly acceptable player the last time he suited up, but that was in 2008. He retired in 2010. He's 38 now and...
Via WHYGAVS?  |  2 days ago
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Roy Oswalt, Edwin Jackson turn down Pirates

Well, the Pirates have apparently been making a last-ditch effort to make a big splash and improve their pitching this season, but it didn’t work. They went after free agents Edwin Jackson and Roy Oswalt, but Jackson signed with the Nationals instead and Oswalt “rebuffed” their offers to join a bidding war. Both would have been welcome additions – they’...
Via Raise the Jolly Roger!  |  2 days ago
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Nobody wants to play in Pittsburgh

First, news broke yesterday that Edwin Jackson turned down a three year deal from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Then just a couple of hours ago today, the story came out that Roy Oswalt said "thanks, but no thanks" to the Pirates approaching him wanting to talk. So why don't players want to play in Pittsburgh? There's a culture of losing in Pittsburgh. The streak is...
Via The Outside Corner  |  2 days ago
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Season Previews: Pittsburgh Pirates

It's about time to kick off one of our favorite things in all the world: Season Previews. Five years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We're just gonna go with what we know. Moving right along with our preview of the National League Central, here is the tentative Pittsburgh Pirates forecast. The average fan Has never heard of...
Via Babes Love Baseball  |  2 days ago
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Can Jose Tabata Develop More Power?

"Jose Tabata has a big league bat capable of Manny Ramirez type numbers."That's a quote from a scouting report on Tabata from 2007. Coming up, nobody really knew what to make of Tabata's power potential, but most scouts realized that it was certainly there. Now he's played 193 big league games and has just eight home runs. A career .284/.348/.383 triple-slash...
Via The "Mc" Effect  |  5 days ago
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EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Prospect's jaw broken in bar fight

According to reports, Tony Sanchez, a 23-year-old Pirates prospect at catcher, was involved in a bar fight about three months ago which resulted in him getting his jaw broken.

Via Larry Brown Sports  |  9 days ago
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