Shortly after the Pirates sold at the trade deadline, they got hot. Regrets?
Breaking down the week’s notable pitching performances from Tyler Skaggs and Gerrit Cole.
The Pirates trade two starters, get back two more, and come out two prospects shallower than they were at the start of the day.
The Nationals get Mark Melancon, a reliever who has been as good as Aroldis Chapman.
When it comes to the standings on the first day of the second half, what you see is *mostly* what you get.
The Pirates’ struggles this year might have more to do with the entire rest of the league than Pittsburgh’s pitchers themselves.
The Mets face the World Series champs again, but their starter gets knocked out by a line drive in the first. Meanwhile, Belt whiffs against a position player pitching, and an inside-the-parker that technically wasn’t.
Zach Eflin and Jaimeson Taillon’s stories began this month, and we all fill in the plots.
It’s time for another installment of Would This Work?, the game show that we just made up today.
Justin Morneau returns to the AL Central and Ike Davis returns to New York.
The teams that are doing things radically different than last year, and whether they mean anything.
The Pirates’ fine season might get finer. Do two pitching phenoms make for a climactic Act III?
Atlana has odd timing in firing Fredi Gonzalez, Francisco Cervelli shows how much he loves Pittsburgh, and Tony Kemp arrives in Houston.
Is Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati turning into a turf war, on a global scale? We’d rather hear both sides of the tale.
So Strasburg is off the market. A couple of the best framers in baseball aren’t, and they’re not looking for seven years, either.
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