Outbluffed by AJ Burnett: The 2014 Pittsburgh Pirates

Pirates general manager Neal Huntington had little reaction to reports circulating of a seven-year, $25 million offer to Gregory Polanco that was rejected by the club's top prospect.

smh

pirates trolling polanco/everyone by optioning phil irwin yesterday and not announcing a callup until today, when they summoned . . . brent morel, who has a .591 ops in triple-a

• pirates will be on sunday night baseball this weekend for the first time since july 28, 1996

• they've had 1421 home games since then

• they're playing the cardinals, who have had zero home games since their last sunday night appearance

Way to go, Ike.

pleased that they took four of six from good teams, but smdh at the way they lost the other two

aw the pirates have an early lead in milwaukee, how cute

8-6 after two in pittsburgh

wandy might be headed for another 'dl stint'

can gregory polanco pitch y/n

wandy and his $8m salary dfa'd

pirates' starting pitchers have five wins

gerrit cole has four of them

now i need a pound of fatback drums

five errors today

polanco me

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bpy4UobCIAAVRvK.jpg

six homers, six doubles for cutch in 9+ june games

six straight multi-hit games

ffs

god knows i love middle-aged long-time minor-league relievers who inspire weird slogans like 'grilled cheese time' but

five (combined) walks in the ninth

EL_COFFEE

god knows i love middle-aged long-time minor-league relievers who inspire weird slogans like 'grilled cheese time' but

*completes follow-through with bill-of-cap adjustment*

polanco 5-for-7, 36 pitches seen <3 <3 <3

.500!

gregory polanco is the first pirate to have a hit in each of his first six games since roberto clemente in 1955

kind of a bad loss today tho

that kid just might be alright!

i guess getting a solid two months out of edinson volquez was more than i'd expected, so

maybe jeff locke has a couple weeks in him? nah

rip jason grilli

lol <3

change of scenery doesn't seem to have helped ernesto much

http://www.searchamelia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/broom.jpg

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/ironic-jersey-omnibus-pittsburgh-pirates

Spanky!

Fun 1st inning.

i know!

Bumgarner: 3 H, 2 BB, 4 ER, 0.2 IP.

one can only imagine what the VANIMAL will do having been spotted four runs

I like Neil Walker, I want him in our team.

he is a perfectly decent second baseman, kind of having a career year

but he is from pittsburgh and it's gonna get weird when he asks for too much money as a 31yo free agent

VANIMAL

Here we go again!

pirates just made possibly the dumbest play i've ever seen

and that was *after* the guy who hit a homer earlier bunted to get to the backup catcher + pitcher's spot

http://m.mlb.com/video/v34943983/pitsf-giants-get-two-rundowns-for-odd-double-play

yakety sax*

smdh

ernesto frieri, we hardly knew ye

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu2AZUxCYAE5tJX.jpg

@Lynn_Henning
Vance Worley looks like he's conducting a seance on Planet Lovetron. This is one unconventional cat.

he should probably be left-handed

rip

not the vanimal too

:(

since the all-star break:

ike davis .255/.358/.491
pedro alvarez .212/.241/.269

so naturally the latter is playing at 1B tonight for the first time as a pro

McCutchen with two HBPs tonight, Garza ejected

it seems possible that he didn't mean to do the second one, but

he'd previously only hit two batters all year

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/pittsburgh-pirates-mike-fitzgerald-mit-sabermetric-road-show

#buctober

congrats you buckaroos

boctober

let's just get through bleptember first guys

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mRAEcguN--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/cejy5z1c42xg5jetbjyh.jpg

http://deadspin.com/the-pirates-locker-room-celebration-looks-like-so-much-1638494944

ps john steigerwald sucks

5 years ago would not have imagined a world in which the o's, nats, and pirates were contenders. i guess the competitive balance stuff does work after all

getting multiple extremely high draft picks is a big help

which makes the o's success even more impressive, because they didn't quite have that

tbh i kinda agree with him, just that it seems silly to have a huge champagne celebration after every single advancement

Sending my congratulations from Milwaukee; I'm rooting for you guys

yeah i think going nuts for winning a wild card game or a division series is kind of lame, and a pennant doesn't mean so much anymore, but making the playoffs postseason after 150+ games is a good moment imo

it's kind of like when i come home and my cat is all purr-y and rubbing up against me and i'm like dude chill, you're gonna get trod upon, i'm *trying* to get to the food. but it's nice to know that he appreciates it

okay it's not really that much like that, but still

let's send mookie to the LCS

(if the fates allow)

ok seriously a champagne celebration after clinching the wc AND the division, two times!! before the postseason begins!! is ridiculous

re the dodgers

well shit

and now we're looking at vance worley or edinson volquez in the wc game

(who have actually pitched very well lately, but still)

http://i.imgur.com/udtLSCx.jpg

<3