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More Alvarez stuff

I really hope that this is the last thing I have to write about Pedro Alvarez unless it is related to baseball. Last night, Frank Coonelly was interviewed on the Pirates postgame show. There was a...

A positive Pirate article from SI.com? Believe it!

Here is a taste: I am ready to run through an outfield wall for Neal Huntington. I’m ready to jump over the Monongahela and the Allegheny and whatever the third one of those rivers is in...

Mientkiewicz speaks his mind

Spring training is a time for clichés. In the early moments after pitchers and catchers report, we get a daily assortment of news that we read every year around this time. Pitcher A is eager to get...

Freddy Signs the Deal

Well it’s now official. Freddy has signed a 3 year deal to stay with the Pirates. It looks like the 3 year deal is worth about $19 million and he’ll get $4.5m this coming year and $6m for...

Bucs to Freddy, “Let’s Make a Deal”

One of the nice pieces of news that has come out of the Piratefest, is that the Bucs and Freddy are talking a long term contract which would a)not have to worry about an arbitration hearing and...

Coonelly: Rockies provide hope for Pirate fans

As Derrick Goold wrote in this morning’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the “Rockies can offer [an] avalanche of hope” to small-market teams on the rise. And the team Goold uses as a...

Pirates announce Neal Huntington as GM

It’s official: Dear Pirates Fans: I am extremely excited to officially announce today that we have hired Neal Huntington as our new General Manager. After a comprehensive search for a baseball...

Perrotto says new Pirate GM is Neal Huntington

From John Perrotto and the Beaver County Times: Multiple baseball sources told The Times on Thursday night that the Pirates are leaning heavily toward hiring Neal Huntington, a special assistant to...

Pirates Announce Hiring of Coonelly as President

According to a press release posted on Pirates.com, the Pirates have just announced officially that Frank Coonelly will be taking the reigns as team president. Bob Nutting’s quotes with...

Please Stay Away from Peter Woodfork, Pirates

If you’re trying to keep track of all the talk surrounding candidates to supplant Brian Graham as Pirates’ general manager, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Over the weekend,...