CHICAGO -- Mired in a scoreless game in the bottom of the fifth, Paul Skenes needed some assistance to get the final out of the inning. After walking Ian Happ with two outs, Kyle Tucker lined a double off the wall in left-center field. Happ got the windmill to go

CHICAGO -- Before he takes the mound each start, Andrew Heaney delegates a responsibility to someone in the dugout. If he points at his shoe, that means his shoelace has probably exploded and you need to run up to his locker to grab another. It’s not paranoia. It has been

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CHICAGO -- The way Carmen Mlodzinski viewed it, getting a little distance from the Major League game afforded him some elbow room. His goal is to be a Major League starter, but being optioned to the Minors last month meant he had a chance to dive into the data and

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The Nationals still are evaluating 7-8 players for the No. 1 overall pick, a group that consists of most of the consensus upper-tier of talent: two high school shortstops (Ethan Holliday and Eli Willits), the best of the college arms (lefties Kade Anderson of Louisiana State, Jamie Arnold of Florida

PITTSBURGH -- There aren't many players to have donned a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform whose on-the-field accomplishments can match that of the illustrious Roberto Clemente. 17-year big leaguer Andrew McCutchen can now say he’s one of the select few.

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There was plenty of offense to go around with plenty of familiar names coming through at the plate, including a handful of Top 100 talent. Pirates teen sensation Konnor Griffin continued his hot-hitting ways at High-A while a pair of Big Apple youngsters flexed their muscles at Double-A. Out west,

Since the Draft began in 1965, there has never been a more difficult year than 2020. The pandemic shutdown ended the college and high school seasons in the second week of March, and some prepsters never even took the field. During the three months leading up to the Draft, teams

PITTSBURGH -- During his All-Star campaign in 2023, Mitch Keller posted a 3.24 FIP through his first 14 starts and went 8-2. During his first 14 starts in 2024, he had a 3.61 FIP, as well as an 8-4 record. Through 14 starts in 2025, his FIP is in the

PITTSBURGH -- Manager Don Kelly’s office is hardly robust, but it has started to fill up over the last month. The room was semi-cleared out when he took over May 8, but photos of family, members of the coaching staff and his mentor, Jim Leyland, are now adorning the walls

As the baseball season sprints towards summer, the favorites for the Cy Young Award are starting to distance themselves from the field -- at least, that's the case in MLB.com's latest Cy Young Award poll. Paul Skenes takes over the No. 1 spot in the National League from Yoshinobu Yamamoto

PITTSBURGH -- Consider it baptism by fire, and through the rain. With the Pittsburgh skies again opening up in what had been a very wet weekend, the pressure was on for Braxton Ashcraft to get the final two outs and complete the Pirates’ first series sweep of the season. Dennis

PITTSBURGH -- It may be quicker to list all the teams in Western Pennsylvania that Isaac Mattson has not picked up a win for. An Erie, Pa., native, Mattson first made a name for himself at the University of Pittsburgh. After a brief stint with the Orioles in 2021, he

PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates will be inducting three more franchise icons into their Hall of Fame this August, all three champions on three different Pirates teams that won the World Series.

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PITTSBURGH -- In his young Major League career, Nick Gonzales has shown an acute knack for delivering in the clutch. He delivered a walk-off winner twice last year, and going by Win Probability Added, he was the second-most valuable hitter on the 2024 Pirates behind Bryan Reynolds. So with the

PITTSBURGH -- Growing up, Ke'Bryan Hayes was taught that he wasn’t going to get three or four hits every game, but he could make an impact defensively every game. Sometimes it’s as simple as making the routine play.

PITTSBURGH -- If there was a theme to Mike Burrows' first two Major League starts, it’s that he has been quite good once he settles in, but it can be a bit bumpy getting to that point.

There's no surprise that Tarik Skubal is back on top of the Starting Pitcher Power Rankings. The real surprise is that he wasn't already there. That's a testament to the other great starters in the Majors -- breakout Astros flamethrower Hunter Brown topped our last power rankings -- but the

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The old scouting adage is that big leaguers come from everywhere. Four members of the Draft Class of 2024 have already touched the Major Leagues, with the exciting promotion of Royals first-rounder Jac Caglianone (more on him below) the most recent, joining fellow first-round picks Nick Kurtz and Cam Smith