Yesterday, Pirates Prospects posted State College’s minicamp roster. This serves as something of a preliminary roster for the early season, but there will inevitably be changes as more players from the recent draft sign. In fact, some players have agreed to terms but aren’t listed yet because they haven’t officially signed their contracts. The makeup [...]
The Pittsburgh Pirates have promoted right-handed pitcher Gerrit Cole to Altoona, per the team Twitter account. Cole is coming off a five shutout inning performance last night, where he struck out seven, and allowed two walks and three hits. The right-hander was hitting 101 with his fastball, and 92 MPH with his slider. On the [...]
Jameson Taillon has an 8.13 ERA in his last six starts. It was only a month ago today that most people were wondering when Jameson Taillon would be promoted to Double-A. The 2010 first round pick had a 1.47 ERA in 36.2 innings over his first seven starts in high-A. Along with that impressive ERA [...]
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Typically, when a team is struggling, you can pinpoint one aspect of the game to determine what caused the slump. However, that has not been the case with the Miami Marlins thus far in June. Coming off of a disastrous June in 2011, the Marlins knew that if they wanted to stay in contention, they [...]
Perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself. Perhaps I’m thinking that the team might channel their inner June of 2009 Rockies and be practically effective against the sub-.500 Detroit Tigers, Offseason Big Spenders (TM). Prince Fielder earned hisself a nice large $214M contract for the next 9 years, and he’s rewarding the Tigers thus far with [...]
Exploring the Arsenal will run prior to each game, providing you with a brief scouting report on the starting pitcher expected to oppose the Pirates. The chart below shows the horizontal and vertical movement of every pitch thrown by that particular pitcher in 2012. This chart is from the catcher’s point of view. For a [...]
Spring is over in 5 days so, it’s high time that I began revealing the Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list for Spring 2011, as voted on right before the June draft. I will reveal these prospects five at a time to give people who aren’t in the know a little bit more of information on [...]
To judge the Mets’ pitching staff as a whole would simply be unfair to the team’s starting pitchers. While the bullpen’s 5.46 ERA is still the worst in baseball, the starting rotation has a 3.62 ERA, fifth-best in MLB. This week’s player meter covers games between June 7 and 14. Player Last Week This Week [...]
The last two week have, at very least, been very eventful, but we haven’t had much for good baseball over that time. We were 4-8 over that period. Ricky Romero 2 starts, neither went very well. He gave up 5 runs (3 earned) in 7 innings against the White Sox and 4 runs (3 earned) [...]
