Baseball creates drama, and the unexpected events that crop up are the ones that really stick with you. Here are my top ten insane things I’ve seen, what did I miss? Randy Johnson kills a bird. 2. Jose Canseco has some trouble. 3. Pirates 2014 Triple Play 4. A bunt double 5. Ken Griffey Jr.Continue reading “Top Ten – Craziest Things I’ve seen in Baseball”
Category Archives: Weekly Feature
Friday Focus – Evaluation, The Unseen Casualty
It has been little over five months since Travis Williams and Ben Cherrington were hired as the President and General Manager respectively. The offseason was anything but normal to begin with as the hiring process went late, cutting into the valuable time it takes to make moves and evaluate where the team is.
The Pirates Top 5 Five Tool Players of All Time
Everyone that reads almost anything I write or listens to my podcast with my buddy Chris, Bucs in The Basement, knows that I am a prospect junkie. Today I am going to step out of my element a little bit, but I am going to take a part of my passion with me. In theContinue reading “The Pirates Top 5 Five Tool Players of All Time”
Top Ten Pirates Utility Players
Over the years the Pirates have had a number of players who bounced around the diamond. Contributing where they were needed most before ultimately landing in the place we think of them playing. Here are my top 10.
Pirates Players Who Were Best in MLB for at Least a Season
Today, let’s look at players who for a time were arguably the best of the best at their position MLB wide.
5 Thoughts at Five
As ever, I’m full of questions. You folks have been so great since we launched this column at helping me sort through them. Here we go for another week!
Ten Players Pirates Fans Hate Themselves for Loving
I suppose this list starts with a requirement. You almost have to be more than a Pirates fan, you have to be a baseball fan as well.
Friday Focus – All Draft Systems are Not Created Equal
Of all major North American sports, baseball has probably the hardest to swallow draft system. Who is this guy? When will he make it to the majors? What position will he play? These are all questions that most fans have when they see who their MLB club picked.
Five Pirates Thoughts at Five
I love doing these five thought pieces for the site. First of all, you have all been so wonderful with responses and those answers have led to full on columns more than once. It wasn’t intended as such but this has in many ways become a virtual pitch meeting! Here We Go!
Ten Pirate Killers
Throughout the years there have always been opposition players that feasted against the Pirates. Albert Pujols loved that rotunda at PNC Park, but this list will be all the guys who just ate the Buccos alive despite being less than stellar against others.
Inside The Bucs Basement 