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Setting the 40-man
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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...
Free agency and spending
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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...
The fall/winter ball update
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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...
Jim Tracy: Manager of the Year
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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.
Is Andy LaRoche done growing as a player?
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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...
ROY links and things
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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...
Chris Coghlan is NL Rookie of the Year
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Andrew McCutchen finishes fourth. We knew it was coming, but it still sucks.
2010 CHONE projections and Ronny Cedeno
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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...
The arbitration list
7 days ago by
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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...
Next on the block: Ryan Doumit?
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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...
The Doc Ellis Dees
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Great, great stuff from No Mas. Thanks to everyone that sent this in.
Ross Ohlendorf has a blog
9 days ago by
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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.
A busy winter?
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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...
Zach Duke and outfield defense
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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...
Playing catch up
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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...
Hermida musings and minor league miscellanea
14 days ago by
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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...
Some day
16 days ago by
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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...
More on Akinori Iwamura
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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...
More on Akinori Iwamura
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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...
Akinori Iwamura is coming to the Pirates
17 days ago by
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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...
WHYGAVS Top Hitting Prospects, November 2009
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After talking about it a whole lot, I've finally got the first part of my prospect rankings together. I've created a page for each player with a small writeup giving my impression of the player, plus links to key pages; their stats at Baseball-Reference, Wilbur Miller's...
WHYGAVS Top Hitting Prospects, November 2009
17 days ago by
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After talking about it a whole lot, I've finally got the first part of my prospect rankings together. I've created a page for each player with a small writeup giving my impression of the player, plus links to key pages; their stats at Baseball-Reference, Wilbur Miller's...
Where have you gone, Carlos Garcia?
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This is slightly old news (last Friday), but all of the blogging I did over the weekend consisted of FanHouse chats and prospect writing (it's taking longer than I wanted, but they should be done soon). I still want to at least mention that the Pirates have hired ex-Pirate Carlos...
Where have you gone, Carlos Garcia?
18 days ago by
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This is slightly old news (last Friday), but all of the blogging I did over the weekend consisted of FanHouse chats and prospect writing (it's taking longer than I wanted, but they should be done soon). I still want to at least mention that the Pirates have hired ex-Pirate Carlos...
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