Mike Gonzalez, ladies and gentlemen. I wish I could show you him “rocking”, but MLB has this filthy video policy to contend with. Gonzalez had 28 saves for the Pirates in four seasons before he was traded for a donkey.

Even the most optimistic Pirates fan knew that Andrew McCutchen was facing some stiff odds in the quest for the National League Rookie of the Year award.  McCutchen finished fourth in voting for the award, which is downright wrong.  It wouldn’t be so...

The Ramones sang “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow”.  It’s a tale of breaking up because someone had to “pay the price”.  And so is the case of Aramis Ramirez and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the best Pirates’ prospect to come along since Barry Bonds was...

Tomorrow, as part of winding down the last decade of Pirates’ futility, we’ll start counting down the Top Ten Pittsburgh Pirates 1999-2009.  There’s some housework to be done before we get to the debate of whether Nate McLouth’s hair belongs on that...

We shouldn’t read too much into this yet, but via MLB Trade Rumors via NPB Tracker comes word of Pirates’ interest in 30-year old Japanese reliever Ryota Igarashi. For the uninitiated, Igarashi has spent his entire professional career with the Tokyo...