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Get ready for a West Coast gauntlet.

Pirates schedule offers a massive reward if they can survive the next test

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The Pittsburgh Pirates haven't officially removed Carmen Mlodzinski from the rotation, but their pitching plans for this weekend may be telling us everything we

Pirates hint at Carmen Mlodzkinski plan with pitching announcement for Dodgers series

The Pittsburgh Pirates could be getting two important pieces of their lineup back in relatively short order. Rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin said Sept. 4 — the

Pirates News: Konnor Griffin return date, former outfielder claimed, NL Wild Card race

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Every Team's Franchise Cornerstone in 2029 🔮

Who will be the No. 1 star on your favorite team three years from now? 📲

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The Awards Race Dividing MLB Fans 🤼‍♀️

Wetherholt vs. Stewart has turned into a new school vs. old school debate for the ages 📲

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SB Nation Reacts results: Are the Pirates a Wild Card team if they were mostly healthy?

Was it injuries that did them in?

For years, Pittsburgh Pirates fans have been told that the Los Angeles Dodgers aren't the problem. Spend smarter. Draft better. Develop better. Extend your own

Dodgers owner's financial scrutiny should have Pirates demanding answers from MLB

Might as well enjoy lightning in a bottle while we have it.

Jared Triolo is giving Pirates hope history says won't last

It’s not uncommon to see PNC Park ranked among the best ballparks in baseball. Just this week USA Today’s Bob Nightengale declared the stadium the “most gorgeou

Pirates fans have one big question after Giants land 2028 All-Star Game

The Pittsburgh Pirates spent the trade deadline adding relievers with plenty of closing experience. Somehow, the guy emerging as their best ninth-inning option

Pirates’ bullpen overhaul may have accidentally revealed their closer of the future

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Trade Fails Still Haunting Teams 👻

These bad moves are still leaving a mark across the league 📲

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Ace Rankings For Every MLB Team ♠️

How every team's best starting pitcher stacks up across MLB 📲

At some point, the Pittsburgh Pirates have to stop trying to squeeze more innings out of Paul Skenes and start asking what they are actually accomplishing by co

Paul Skenes' latest warning sign should finally force Pirates' hand

Esmerlyn Valdez exploded onto the scene and took July NL Rookie of the Month honors home with him. It was the stuff that makes you dream, but the Pittsburgh Pir

Pirates are watching Esmerlyn Valdez pass an important rookie test

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Pirates acquire catcher from Yankees

The Bucs made a move for a catcher.

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Rafael Flores Jr. is forcing Pirates to reconsider his current role

Rafael Flores Jr. entered Wednesday’s game against the Detroit Tigers as a bench bat. By the time it was over, he had accomplished something no player had done

Pirates ace trying to tune out the noise amid recent slump 📸

Skenes on Pitching Struggles

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Pirates make telling catcher trade with Yankees amid Endy Rodríguez injury concerns

The Pittsburgh Pirates still haven’t revealed the full extent of Endy Rodríguez’s latest injury, but their newest roster move certainly suggests they aren’t exp

Pirates Walk-Off Tigers 🚶

Pittsburgh hits 2 clutch HRs in the 9th to sink Detroit 4-3

Pirates SHOCK Tigers in 9th 🤯

Pittsburgh hits game-tying and game-winning HRs off Jansen to ice Detroit

Yanks Trade Catcher to Pirates

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The New York Yankees today announced that they have traded C Christian Bethancourt to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for cash considerations.

NL Cy Young coming off extra rest 📸

Skenes' Latest Stat Line 👀

Skenes' 98+ MPH Fastballs Plummeting 📉

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Paul Skenes has not thrown nearly as many 98+ MPH fastballs as he did in years past.

These 25 players aren't living up to their salaries 📲

MLB's Most Overpaid Players 💸

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Detroit Tigers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Jackson Jobe vs. Paul Skenes

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

Pros who got their start in Williamsport 📲

MLB Stars Who Played in LLWS 🤯

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Braxton Ashcraft made history vs. Tigers but Pirates denied him a chance at more

Braxton Ashcraft was three outs away from doing something no major-league pitcher had done in nearly a decade but never got the chance. Still, he had already ma

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Three things that will keep the Pirates from the playoffs

It’s going to be an uphill battle to see playoff baseball back in Pittsburgh.

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VOTE: Are the Pirates a Wild Card team if they were mostly healthy?

Did injuries doom the Bucs this year?

DET at PIT Game Highlights

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Detroit Tigers - 08/18/2026

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Detroit Tigers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Keider Montero vs. Braxton Ashcraft

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

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Pirates Konnor Griffin to return this season

The Bucs will be getting some reinforcments soon.

The Pittsburgh Pirates waited more than two months to get Oneil Cruz back into their lineup. Naturally, the first thing they did after activating him was leave

Oneil Cruz is finally back and Don Kelly is already overthinking it

Konnor Griffin is making progress in his recovery from a torn sagittal band in his left ring finger, and the Pirates are optimistic their rookie shortstop could

Pirates Injury Update: Konnor Griffin ahead of schedule, Ryan O'Hearn making progress

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1 Stat for Every MLB Team 🔢

The number that defines each club's season 📲

The Pittsburgh Pirates tried Carmen Mlodzinski in the rotation again. At this point, they have seen enough. Mlodzinski was hit hard in Monday night's 8-5 loss t

3 Pirates pitchers who should get a rotation shot after Carmen Mlodzinski experiment failed

Ben Cherington keeps insisting there is nothing physically wrong with Paul Skenes. Maybe he’s right, but that doesn't mean everything is fine. Skenes’ fastball

Ben Cherington finds new excuse for Paul Skenes’ concerning slide

McGonigle's 2-Run Homer 🔥 (@tigers on X)

Tigers' rookie gets his 13th HR of the season

The Pittsburgh Pirates’ lineup Sunday afternoon looked like the kind of lineup built with the sole purpose of making people angry. Jared Triolo leading off. Nic

Pirates may regret overlooking obvious answer to their lefty problem

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Detroit Tigers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Framber Valdez vs. Carmen Mlodzinski

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

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Oneil Cruz set to return to Pirates after serious hand injury

Cruz hasn’t played for the Pirates since June 7.

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Teams Already Regretting Deadline Trades 😖

Yankees, more clubs that could use a deadline do-over ➡️

The Pittsburgh Pirates have spent much of the second half watching their playoff hopes slowly slip away. If there is going to be one final attempt to rescue the

Oneil Cruz return provides final Pirates hope for playoff berth on life support

Two of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ more intriguing young pitching prospects are moving up a level. Right-hander Levi Sterling and left-hander Reinold Navarro have b

Pirates News: Top prospects promoted, Billy Cook streak ends, Dennis Santana

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New MLB Power Rankings 📊

🔥 Padres surging 😩 Red Sox out of gas 📲 Full rankings midway through August

The good news is that Oneil Cruz's fractured left hand is healed. The frustrating news is that apparently doesn't mean he's ready to play. Cruz was back at PNC

Oneil Cruz's Pirates rehab delay gets frustrating explanation from Ben Cherington

Sooner or later, the Pirates’ prospect pool has to dry up, right? The MLB Pipeline team doesn’t seem to think so. According to the latest Top 100 list, Pittsbur

Pirates’ 2026 draft looks even more impressive after new MLB Pipeline rankings

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Pirates move back Paul Skenes start until Wednesday

The Bucs are giving Skenes some extra rest time.

Contenders for MVP, Cy Young, ROY and more across the league 📲

Every Team's Top Award Candidate 🏆

Red Sox vs. Pirates (08/16/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 8-3 win vs. Boston Red Sox 🎥

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

Boston Red Sox vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Patrick Sandoval vs. Paul Skenes

How each team would ideally like this season to end at this point

Best Scenarios for Each Team's Season ⏩

Pirates manager pushing RHP's next start to Wednesday amid injury, velocity concerns (MLB.com)

Skenes Not Pitching Sunday

For most of Paul Skenes’ major league career, adversity has been something other pitchers dealt with. Skenes arrived in Pittsburgh in 2024 and immediately looke

Paul Skenes’ revealing admission says plenty about his frustrating Pirates season

The Pittsburgh Pirates made the decision not to tear apart their roster at the trade deadline. That made sense at the time, as they were still close enough to t

3 Pirates who survived the 2026 trade deadline but will be gone in offseason

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

Boston Red Sox vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Sonny Gray vs. Jared Jones

The Pittsburgh Pirates have spent the past several weeks insisting that Paul Skenes is healthy. At this point, that almost doesn’t matter. Whether Skenes is dea

Pirates can’t afford to ignore the obvious Paul Skenes decision anymore

Is it time for someone new at the helm in Pittsburgh?

SB Nation Reacts results: Will Pirates GM Ben Cherington be fired?

These days, Paul Skenes is the hot topic of conversation around the Pittsburgh Pirates. Not only does everyone want to figure out what's wrong with the ace, but

Paul Skenes’ concerning struggles may come down to one subtle change

Red Sox vs. Pirates (08/14/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 8-4 win vs. Boston Red Sox 🎥

Pirates Perfect Relay 😮‍💨

Complete team effort by Pittsburgh to get the out at home 🎥

Paul Skenes has given Pittsburgh Pirates fans plenty to worry about lately. His fastball velocity has dropped. His command hasn’t looked nearly as sharp. He was

Paul Skenes discourse has crossed a line it never needed to approach

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

Boston Red Sox vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Jake Bennett vs. Bubba Chandler

Breaking down the struggles of Paul Skenes, Cal Raleigh, more 📲

Most Bizarre Superstar Slumps 📉

The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired Luke Weaver at the trade deadline for one obvious reason: to help close out games that mattered. So far, they haven't given him

Pirates are wasting Luke Weaver in the most frustrating way possible

The Toronto Blue Jays and Pittsburgh Pirates woke up Wednesday in remarkably similar places — at least if you only looked at their records. Both teams are 58-63

Former top Pirates prospect is helping fuel Blue Jays’ unlikely playoff push

Nick Gonzales has been one of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ best hitters this season. He has also been one of their worst defenders. But after learning more about how

Pirates failed Nick Gonzales before his third base struggles even began

Ashcraft getting it done.

Braxton Ashcraft throws his first complete game for Pirates

Endy Rodríguez has spent much of the 2026 season showing the Pittsburgh Pirates exactly why they remained patient through years of injuries. Unfortunately, he’s

Endy Rodríguez’s latest injury raises an increasingly uncomfortable Pirates question

The Pittsburgh Pirates have spent most of the second half searching for something — anything — capable of stopping their season from spiraling completely out of

Braxton Ashcraft may be Pirates’ best hope of stabilizing disastrous second half

Pirates RHP's Dominant CG ⚡

Braxton Ashcraft only needed 85 pitches in win over Marlins 🎥

Pirates vs. Marlins (08/13/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 13-1 win vs. Miami Marlins 🎥

The Pirates are on the road looking to grab a win today.

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Miami Marlins: Braxton Ashcraft vs. Tyler Phillips

Bite-sized takes from around the league for the stretch run 📲

1 Sentence For Every Team 🗣️

Breaking down the biggest farm system leaps across the league 📲

Every Team's Breakout Prospect 💥

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Surprise Rookie of the Year candidate Esmerlyn Valdez has gone cold. Since the All-Star break, the Pirates outfielder is

Pirates offensive struggles are exposing an unfair Esmerlyn Valdez reality

Carmen Mlodzinski spent much of this season looking like a pitcher caught between the role the Pittsburgh Pirates needed him to fill and the one he clearly pref

Carmen Mlodzinski finally got his Pirates wish and fell flat on his face

The struggles continue for the Pirates and their ace as they fall to 9-16 when he starts.

Pirates Paul Skenes continues to struggle, velocity at all time low

Pirates vs. Marlins (08/12/2026)

Full highlights from Miami Marlins' 8-2 win vs. Pittsburgh Pirates 🎥

The Pirates completely rebuilt the bullpen at the trade deadline, and although the team has slipped in the standings since then, the relief corps has been a bri

Pirates bullpen is quietly becoming a massive post-deadline bright spot

The Pirates are on the road looking to grab a win today.

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Miami Marlins: Carmen Mlodzinski vs. Jacob Junk

The Pittsburgh Pirates desperately need Oneil Cruz back in their lineup. That doesn’t necessarily mean they should be in a hurry to get him there. Cruz continue

Oneil Cruz rehab assignment isn't easing the Pirates' biggest concern

The Pittsburgh Pirates would apparently like everyone to believe that nothing is wrong with Paul Skenes. But after Tuesday night, that's becoming increasingly d

Pirates' comments after bizarre Paul Skenes start fuel more skepticism

All-Time World Series Upset 🍿

Pirates' shocking win over Yankees in 1960 was an epic start to an amazing sports decade

Pirates ace backs manager's decision to pull him after 65 pitches

Skenes Understands Early Hook

One of the most persistent misconceptions in baseball's salary-cap debate is that a cap and floor are supposed to magically transform poorly run small-market te

A salary cap wouldn't save the Pirates from Ben Cherington's incompetence

Eury Pérez Masterclass 🤩

Marlins ace shuts down Pirates' bats in 2-0 win vs. Skenes

There is no shortage of legitimate frustration surrounding the 2026 Pittsburgh Pirates. A team that entered the season talking openly about the postseason is no

Jake Mangum shouldn't be the punching bag for Pirates fans' 2026 misery

The Pirates are on the road looking to grab a win today.

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Miami Marlins: Paul Skenes vs. Eury Pérez

When Paul Skenes faced the Miami Marlins at PNC Park on June 14, the Pittsburgh Pirates lost. But Skenes himself wasn’t really the problem. He struck out 10, wa

Paul Skenes’ Marlins rematch is a chance to finally stop alarming slide

A bad injury for a Pirates prospect.

Pirates prospect Termarr Johnson suffers bad injury

Is Ben Cherington's office phone plugged in?

Pirates let an obvious answer to their offensive woes slip away

🏆 Ohtani loses MVP race 😯 Surprise division winners 📲 Hot takes for final 2 months

Bold MLB Predictions 🔮

Zach Neto, CJ Abrams, more players who could move before Opening Day 📲

Players on Trade Watch Before 2027 👀

Does GMBC get the can if the Bucs miss the MLB Playoffs?

VOTE: Does Ben Cherington get fired if the Bucs miss the MLB Playoffs?

At the end of the 2025 season, Pittsburgh Pirates team president Travis Williams made the organization’s objective for 2026 perfectly clear. The goal was “to ma

Pirates asked fans for accountability and may regret getting their wish

Where every team stands as we near mid-August 📲

Latest MLB Power Rankings 📊

For a while, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a lot of us fooled. That might be the most frustrating part of all. Through injuries, slumps and stretches where the ros

Pirates are proving their most painful tradition is alive and well

Pittsburgh Pirates second base prospect Termarr Johnson suffered a left knee injury Saturday and is undergoing further testing to determine the severity. Johnso

Pirates News: Termarr Johnson injury, Ji Hwan Bae signs with rival, Dennis Santana

Potential World Series Game 7 on Halloween. Full calendar here 📲

MLB Postseason Schedule 🍿

There's plenty of blame to go around for the Pittsburgh Pirates' increasingly precarious position in the National League playoff race. Ben Cherington deserves s

Pirates pitching staff has no excuse for stunning fall from grace as playoffs look further away

For the past season and a half, Paul Skenes has been Henry Davis’s protector. The ace had exclusively used Davis as his backstop since April 14, 2025, but on Au

Pirates' latest Paul Skenes lineup decision feels ominous for Henry Davis

SB Nation Reacts results: Has Mitch Keller pitched his last game as a Pirate?

Will Mitch be back?

How 10 fringe playoff clubs can move on to October ➡️

Fixing Every Bubble Team’s Big Flaw 🛠️

Breaking down potential postseason picture and latest standings 📲

Projected MLB Playoff Bracket ♨️

Offseason moves we're expecting after a wild MLB trade deadline ➡️

Way-Too-Early Free Agency Predictions 🔮

Breaking down the bracket after Skubal to LA, more 📲

Post-Deadline Playoff Predictions 🔮

Mets vs. Pirates (08/09/2026)

Full highlights from New York Mets' 11-1 win vs. Pittsburgh Pirates 🎥

'Sell the Team' Chant at PNC 🫣

Pirates fans get vocal just before their pitcher throws a ball into RF

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New York Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Sean Manaea vs. Jared Jones

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

It’s been a whirlwind two weeks for Ron Marinaccio, whom the Pirates acquired from the Padres on July 23 before DFA’ing him and seeing him go to the division-ri

Pirates losing recently-claimed reliever to Reds could annoyingly affect playoff race

Why this T206 Wagner card sold for its lowest mark in six years 📲

Rare Honus Wagner Card Sells for Record Low

Typically speaking, this is the time of year that Pittsburgh Pirates fans really hone in on the minors and begin to dream of which youngster will be the next gr

This Pirates prospect is forcing his way into Pittsburgh's pitching plans

Mets vs. Pirates (08/08/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 9-0 win vs. New York Mets 🎥

Endy Rodríguez was a late scratch from the Pittsburgh's Pirates’ lineup Saturday against the New York Mets due to left hip discomfort, raising concern because i

Pirates Injury Update: Endy Rodríguez scratch, Oneil Cruz rehab assignment, Mitch Keller

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New York Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Robert Stock vs. Bubba Chandler

The Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

The Pittsburgh Pirates' selection of Derek Curiel with the fifth-overall pick of the 2026 MLB Draft raised some eyebrows. At the time that the pick was made, it

Paul Skenes just fueled huge expectations for Pirates first round pick