If you talk the talk, you better walk the walk. Former Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Jim Rooker learned that lesson the hard way. On June 8, 1989, in the final game of an eight-game road trip, the Pirates -- winless in the first seven games -- roared to a 10-0 lead

Andrew McCutchen, the face of the Pirates in the 21st century, is staying in Pittsburgh. The team announced Monday that the franchise icon is returning for the 2025 season. According to a source, the deal is for one year, $5 million. Another reunion between McCutchen and the Pirates was always

From stunning comebacks to thrilling walk-offs to dominant pitching performances, every team had its share of memorable triumphs in 2024. But what was each club’s signature win of the season?

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There was no shortage of storylines in the 2024 season, which featured some of the best individual seasons and performances that baseball has ever seen -- we're looking at you Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge. Which single-game performances were the best? We asked each of our 30 beat writers which

2024 was a thrilling, downright giddy year of baseball, with historic individual seasons, riveting playoff chases, hair-raising postseason games and a World Series with the biggest stars in the sport. But to our eyes, there were 10 players who made their mark on the sport more than any other, 10

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Spencer Horwitz was on his way to the movies to see “Gladiator II” when he saw the Blue Jays acquired second baseman Andrés Giménez from the Guardians. A few minutes later, he got a call from Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins saying that he was part of the package

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The Pirates added to their position-player depth pool Sunday, acquiring infielder/outfielder Enmanuel Valdez from the Red Sox in exchange for Minor League right-handed pitcher Joe Vogatsky. Valdez, who turns 26 on Dec. 28 and swings left-handed, slashed .214/.270/.363 with six home runs and 28 RBIs over 223 plate appearances this

We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It’s part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first

The way Miguel Perez sees it, the catcher has the VIP seat of the game. He’s the one in charge of making sure there’s a winning mindset on the field, who needs to care of the pitcher on the mound. A lot of those traits carried over as Perez made

DALLAS -- The Pirates find themselves in a familiar spot to where they were a year ago: trying to improve a team that went 76-86 and get over the hump of the last stages of a rebuild and into the playoffs. There were plenty of reasons for optimism, excitement and

The Pirates have added Miguel Perez to manager Derek Shelton’s staff as bullpen coach. The former catcher spent time in the Pittsburgh organization as a player and served as a manager in the Pirates’ farm system for seven of the past eight seasons, including the last three with Triple-A Indianapolis.

DALLAS -- The Pirates made their first big splash of the offseason Tuesday night, picking up Spencer Horwitz from the Guardians, their potential first baseman for not only 2025, but the future as well. In exchange, the Pirates are sending Luis Ortiz and pitching prospects Michael Kennedy and Josh Hartle

DALLAS -- The Pirates had been mostly quiet on the transaction from this offseason before Tuesday's trade for Spencer Horwitz, but they had been one of the busiest teams in baseball in terms of reshaping and retooling their front office. "It's the most I can remember in a concentrated amount

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from his newsletter -- which he reported on from Greensboro, N.C., on July 28 -- is one of those stories. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here. Get up, get

DALLAS -- They may not have won the jackpot this time around, but the Pirates hit big at the Draft Lottery again Tuesday, being awarded the sixth overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft. The Lottery, which took place at the MLB Winter Meetings, was adopted with the 2022 Collective

DALLAS -- The Pirates added to their bullpen depth options Tuesday, signing right-hander Elvis Alvarado to a Major League deal, per a source. It’s a split contract and pending a physical. The club has not confirmed. Alvarado, 25, pitched 48 1/3 innings with the Marlins’ Triple-A team, the Jacksonville Jumbo

The 2025 Draft may still be seven months away but it's also in the news. MLB Pipeline released its initial Draft Top 100 late last week and MLB staged the Draft Lottery on Tuesday evening at the Winter Meetings.

DALLAS -- The state of the Pirates this offseason is about as cut-and-dry as any team. They have one of the best young rotations in the game. They need to score more runs to support that staff. And when it comes to scoring more runs, their greatest areas of need

Of all the accolades and accomplishments from Dave Parker’s legendary career -- whether it be his 1978 National League MVP, two World Series rings or multiple batting titles, Gold Gloves and Silver Sluggers -- one of his greatest touchstones in baseball lore is a picture of him wearing a T-shirt.

There is nothing else in baseball quite like the Rule 5 Draft, traditionally the final number of the annual Winter Meetings. Every year, Rule 5 sounds the closing bell on the Winter Meetings by providing big league opportunities for a few players who may not have gotten them so immediately