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Predicting the Results of Seven Spring Training Position Battles

Spring training is a largely meaningless set of exhibitions to some veteran players but the land of opportunity to others, particularly young prospects looking

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American League Offseason Grades: Orioles Lead, Yankees Lag

The junior circuit has more teams receiving tougher grades after less than impressive approaches to hot stove season.

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MLB Offseason Midterm Grades: American League

We are under 100 days until Opening Day—97, to be exact—and MLB’s offseason still has plenty of dominoes yet to fall. Over half of SI’s 50 best free agents rema

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Red Sox Trade Top Outfield Prospect to Pirates for Pitcher Johan Oviedo

It’s the second time this offseason the Red Sox have made a trade for a starting pitcher.

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Zack Wheeler Leads In 2023 Starting Pitcher Grade-Point Averages

Explore the strengths and weaknesses of starting pitchers in the 2023 baseball season analysis.

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MLB’s Young Pitchers’ Dilemma: Less Work, More Injuries

Clubs have become more conservative on workloads, but that hasn’t necessarily yielded the desired results.

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Giants scratch out two runs in eighth to beat Pirates

Flailing away offensively into the eighth inning, the Giants broke up a pitchers' duel courtesy of Michael Conforto and beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1, Saturday at PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

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Early mountain too much for Pirates to climb, as they make late charge but lose to Brewers

PITTSBURGH — Roansy Contreras screamed into his glove before flipping it up in the air out of frustration. The scowl on Johan Oviedo’s face as he walked slowly toward the Pirates dugout said plenty. Tucupita Marcano picked his bat up over his head and thought for a second about slamming…

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Pirates’ offense remains quiet during 4-0 loss to Cubs, as losing streak reaches season-high 8

PITTSBURGH — Four hours before the Pirates would host the Cubs for the second game of their series at PNC Park, team president Travis Williams was giving a tour through the team’s revamped clubhouse store along Federal Street.

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Cubs ‘rookie’ Seiya Suzuki isn’t down on his luck despite hard-hit balls not dropping

The 92.7 mph average exit velocity Suzuki brought into Tuesday night topped the Cubs and, according to Baseball Savant, ranked in the 93rd percentile across the majors.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johan Oviedo immaculate, but Pirates unable to erase early deficit in loss to Rangers

PITTSBURGH — From the first pitch of Johan Oviedo’s last start, it was clear the Pirates right-hander meant business. Debuting a sinker after tinkering with it throughout spring, it didn’t take Oviedo long to show that he was intent on displaying a different version of himself.

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Pirates enjoy another offensive outburst against an elite arm, take down Diamondbacks

PITTSBURGH — As the Pirates plotted ways to dig themselves out of a sizable funk, with losses in 11 of 12 games entering Sunday’s series finale in Baltimore, this likely wasn’t a course they charted. Facing opening day starters in three of the four subsequent contests, it looked like a…

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Pirates’ Winning Record Fueled by ‘Good Vibes’ and Spinning Pitching Staff

Though Pittsburgh has become known for its amusing clubhouse celebrations, there’s more behind its winning record this season.

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Pirates sweep Reds, bump winning streak to 7 behind dominant effort from Vince Velasquez

PITTSBURGH — Vince Velasquez hopped off the mound, pumped both of his fists and let out a guttural scream, the right-hander clearly disinterested in hiding his emotions after a strikeout of Reds third baseman Jason Vosler on a slider in the seventh inning Sunday afternoon.

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Pirates sweep Rockies with another offensive outburst, finishing series in historic fashion

DENVER — Austin Hedges and Canaan Smith-Njigba sat at a table, surrounded by teammates while playing an intense game of Connect Four prior to the first game of this series.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nolan Gorman, Nolan Arenado jump-start Cardinals offense in 3-0 win over Pirates

ST. LOUIS — After 14 consecutive innings of bad luck and offensive futility, the Cardinals manufactured a lone run in the sixth inning behind the hitting of Nolan Arenado and Nolan Gorman on Friday night.

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Pirates beat White Sox, but bigger concern remains health of Oneil Cruz

PITTSBURGH — Johan Oviedo was absolutely dominant for large chunks of Sunday’s series-deciding game against the Chicago White Sox, yet his performance isn’t the biggest talking point from this one. The same for the Pirates taking a second consecutive series during a better-than-anticipated start to the season.

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Jason Mackey: Taking a closer look at the Pirates' ongoing push to build young, talented pitching depth

BRADENTON, Fla. — A noticeable storyline of spring training thus far has been the decent amount of competency found in the Pirates' starting rotation.

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Young Pirates make difference in final game of season, a 5-3 win over Cardinals

PITTSBURGH — Prior to Wednesday’s season finale, which turned out to be a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, Pirates manager Derek Shelton admitted that he gets frustrated too, sometimes.

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Pirates enjoy enticing glimpse of future while snapping losing skid against Cubs

PITTSBURGH — Seemingly stranded in the desert while mired in one of the longest losing stretches of the season, the Pirates found some water Saturday in the form of future pieces, young players they surely hope will be part of an eventual rebound.

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Mets overcome rare glitch by Jacob deGrom to sweep Pirates

NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom did what you would expect him to do against the Pirates on Sunday: He deGrominated.

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Johan Oviedo shines, offense stays hot, and Pirates open doubleheader with victory over Reds

CINCINNATI — When the Pirates acquired Johan Oviedo as part of the Jose Quintana-Chris Stratton trade, there was an acknowledged need to be patient. General manager Ben Cherington and manager Derek Shelton also told anyone who asked about the gigantic right-hander that they viewed him as a capable major league…

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Johan Oviedo shows signs in (short) first start with Pirates; offense again quiet

PITTSBURGH — Friday’s game featured plenty of what the Pirates have seen this season: an inability to generate offense. The hope for the rest of the season and into 2023 should be focused more on the brief glimpses they saw against the Blue Jays at PNC Park.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former White Sox, Cubs pitcher Jose Quintana traded to Cardinals

The Pirates traded the veteran left-hander to the Cardinals in exchange for reliever Johan Oviedo and corner infield prospect Malcolm Nunez. Pittsburgh also sent right-handed reliever Chris Stratton to St. Louis.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cardinals offense, rotation sputter in 7-1 loss to Braves

ATLANTA — The engine trouble the Cardinals have had generating offense thus far in this series would be more glaring with its stalls and misfires if not for the fact they won’t be going all that far with the deflated tires of a rotation growing threadbare.

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