The Pittsburgh Pirates today announced that they have acquired outfielder Marlon Byrd, catcher John Buck and cash consideration from the New York Mets in exchange for minor league infielder Dilson Herrera and a player to be named later. The announcement was made by Senior Vice President, General Manager Neal Huntington. Byrd hit .285 (121-for-425) with 26 doubles, five triples, 21 home runs and 71 RBI in 117 games with the Mets. Byrd, who will turn 36 on Friday, is hitting .311 with 11 doubles, ... Read More

For the past month, since the playoffs have become more and more certain, the Pirates’ plan was to have a fully healthy Wandy Rodriguez return to pitch in September, and to fill out the postseason rotation with A.J. Burnett and Francisco Liriano. Yet, after Thursday’s news, it appears that there is only a slim chance if any that Rodriguez will pitch again in 2013. This opens up a spot in the postseason rotation. Who will be the pitcher to fill that void? The other three starters in the Pirates ... Read More

The Pittsburgh Pirates had the opportunity to sweep the San Diego Padres in San Diego for the first time since April 29-May 1 of 2003 on Wednesday afternoon. The only thing standing in their way was the brilliant performance by Ian Kennedy. Newly acquired Kennedy showed his best Francisco Liriano impression, playing stopper for the Padres to salvage a game in the three game series against the Pirates at Petco Park. Yonder Alonso supplied all the offense with a sacrifice fly and RBI single to ... Read More

The Pirates should turn to Andrew Lambo at first base (Flickr.com/Sports Crazy) With September baseball fast approaching, the Pirates will be moving quickly to improve in all areas of need. While much attention has been focused on the production of Pirates right fielders this summer (or lack thereof), there seems to be a glaring weakness that continues to be overlooked. The first base production for the Bucs this year has not been good. While the platoon of Gaby Sanchez (left handers) and ... Read More

With the recent hand injury to Starling Marte, the Pirates decided to select the contract of outfielder Felix Pie from Class AAA Indianapolis. Reliever Ryan Reid, who was recalled on Monday to give the taxing bullpen an extra arm, was optioned to Indianapolis. To make room for Pie on the 40-man roster, Pittsburgh transferred starting pitcher Wandy Rodriguez from the 15-day to the 60-day disabled list. Pie, which is making his Pirates’ debut tonight in San Diego, will bat first and play left ... Read More

It is crazy to think that Roberto Clemente would have only been 79 years young this week. With his playing career and life having ended 41 years ago, Clemente is a distant memory of a Golden Age of baseball in Pittsburgh. With his birthday this past week, many Yinzers reflected on the life and career of The Great One. Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico in 1934. He was an avid fan of baseball in his youth, listening to a combination of baseball games and static on his radio, that ... Read More

Last night was an ideal example of a dream night for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Before their game in San Diego started, the Pirates already witnessed the Reds fall victim to the Diamondbacks and the Cardinals were on the cusp of losing to the Brewers. All the Buccos needed to do was take care of business at Petco Park to extend their division lead, and that they did. Pedro Alvarez, Andrew McCutchen and Josh Harrison each produced run scoring triples to propel the Pirates to an 8-1 drubbing of the ... Read More

Without a doubt, the Pittsburgh Pirates need to hit better if they want to be true contenders in the National League.  When you consider the prospects of facing pitchers like Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, and a bunch of great players that don't play for the Los Angeles Dodgers, this offense makes it seem like any advance past the first round will be a surprise. But let's not forget how the Pirates got to the top of the NL Central where they currently stand a game up on the St. Louis ... Read More

PNC Park -- Adam Eaton singled home two in the 16th inning off of Kris Johnson, who was making his ML debut and pitched 6 innings in extras, to give the Diamondbacks the series victory with a 4 - 2 win. Charlie Morton started the game for the Bucs and retired the first four batters he faced by way of strikeout en route to five shutout innings. He would get into trouble in the sixth when he loaded the bases with no out. Aaron Hill would then single and Geraldo Parra would ground into a double ... Read More