Pittsburgh Pirates 2026 Forecast 

The team has a bunch of question marks on the mound but several solid players offensively. If everything goes perfectly and the pitching comes around, they could be in the playoff hunt.

The team has a bunch of question marks on the mound but several solid players offensively. If everything goes perfectly and the pitching comes around, they could be in the playoff hunt.
… it’s very possible there could be more Devers dingers to left than there will be splash hits in McCovey Cove.
Read moreIt’s been a crazy year. A gorilla kills just one small child and gets the death penalty. Hulk Hogan has to get on a witness stand. David Bowie, Prince, and half of the entertainment world die. Donald J. Trump becomes President. The Cubs and Red Sox are in the mix for the World Series. Andy Smith hosts a staff party preview of the postseason.
Read moreAdvertisements Sometimes a game is so full of badness, it ends up being great, like this little ditty from 1974. I enjoy baseball Twitter, especially the posts of statistical oddities and whatnot. These tweets, by people such as Doug Kern, Mark Simon, or Jayson Stark (among others) usually take the form of “The Reds haven’t hit four batters in an
Read moreThe problem is they don’t have the pitching to keep the other team from scoring runs. Last we checked, the team that scores the most runs wins.
Read moreIt wasn’t that long ago that the Brewers were the class of the division, the Cubs were trying to figure out a way back to the promised land and the Cardinals were just kind of a mess. Then an elephant got on the trapeze, some kid stole the clown shoes from Bozo and the bearded lady got electrolysis and moved to Ft. Lauderdale. All in all, nothing makes sense and predicting how this will play out? As the guy with the balloon animals says, “Fuhgedaboudit.”
Read moreThere’s a ship full of nice-looking young men just off the coast. Surely, they can be trusted to finish fourth, right? Right?
Read moreTwo NL Central teams will pull of some big moves that could totally fubar them for the forseeable future.
Read moreCubs fans could celebrate, but the Pirates could surprise. Phil Roeder via flickr cropped some rights reserved by the photographer
Read moreStargell, Milner, Garner, Madlock, Foli, Bill Robinson, Moreno, Parker, Ott, Lacy, Blyleven, Candelaria, Bibby, Don Robinson, Tekulve, Romo, Jackson. Add to that a recovering Rhoden and you have a team ready for domination.
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