Buccos Cove

A couple of years ago, a young starter named Tyler Glasnow came to the Big Leagues with a lot of promise, but never put it together until he left Pittsburgh. Now, Mitch Keller is going through some of the same struggled and this time the Pirates don't want to mess things up. Back in 2016, a young talented pitcher by the name of Tyler Glasnow made his Major League debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was 22-years-old and brought with him a lot of promise from the Minor Leagues. He spent a total of seven seasons in the Minor Leagues, five of those before he made his debut, and had a career 2.01 ERA going 45-21. However, in his first seven Big League appearances, he went 0-2 with a 4.24 ERA in 23.1 innings of work. Things didn't get any easier for Glasnow as he went up and down between the Major and Minor Leagues and had an ERA over 4.00 in each of those seasons. Then, in 2018, he was packaged in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays and went on to become one of the top pitc...

The Tampa Bay Rays clinched their way to the World Series defeating the Houston Astros 4-2 in game seven of the ALCS. On a team that features four former Pirates players and farmhands, it is these key pieces that have helped the Rays rise to World Championship contention. Entering game seven of the American League Championship Series, it was win or go home for the Tampa Bay Rays. After jumping out to a 3-0 series lead over the Houston Astros, the Rays were not able to close out the series and the Astros battled back to force a game seven. With a trip to the 2020 World Series at stake, the Rays turned to a former Pirates player who had had big game experience before. Charlie Morton closed out the 2017 World Series win for the Houston Astros and was now being tabbed to start against his former team in an all-important game seven match-up that could send the Rays to the World Series for the first time since the 2008 season when they took on the Philadelphia Phillies, and only ...

As we await the start of the 2020 MLB season due to Corona Virus concerns, we will take a look at every player on the Pirates roster and outline what they will bring to the table and projections for the 2020 season. I hope this brings some positive reading to the current situation and helps us all as we wait for baseball. At one time, Clay Holmes was a highly touted prospect that was going to be a part of a young dominant Pittsburgh Pirates starting rotation. He was ranked #10 in the Pirates system entering the 2012 season and was set to join the likes of Gerrit Cole, Jameson Taillon, and Tyler Glasnow as the next generation of young Pirates starting pitching. However, things have not turned out as Holmes planned as injuries derailed his starting pitching career and turned him into a full-time reliever. He made his major League debut in 2018 and quickly went down hill as a starter going 1-2 with a 7.80 ERA in four starts. Moving ahead to 2019, Holmes was fighting for a spot...