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Ryan O'Hearn didn't wait for the optics. He didn't soften it. He didn't dress it up in the kind of empty, recycled baseball-speak that Pirates fans have been co ...

There are bad takes and then there's New York Yankees fans talking themselves into a Paul Skenes trade because of one bad inning in March. Welcome back to peak ...

For months, the Pittsburgh Pirates sold this as a development story. It wasn't an experiment. It was a plan. Moving Oneil Cruz from shortstop to center field wa ...

Buster Olney's take didn't even make it out of the first inning. That's not a knock on the veteran ESPN insider so much as it is a perfect snapshot of just how ...

There are bad starts and then there are starts that feel like a personal insult. Paul Skenes got ambushed by the New York Mets on Openin Day. Five runs. Two-th ...

For about five minutes, it felt like a dream. Oneil Cruz stepped in to lead off the 2026 season and did exactly what a franchise centerpiece is supposed to do.

The Pittsburgh Pirates' new home run celebration for 2026 isn't about props. It's not about flair. It's not about going viral. It's about identity. And when Bra ...

There's a certain mythology that comes with Opening Day -- the pageantry, the optimism, the idea that anything is possible before a single pitch is thrown. For t ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates won't be able to rely on Tommy Pham's underwhelming bat in 2026 as he just landed with the Mets instead. This is great news.

For the first time in a long time, the Pittsburgh Pirates are walking into Opening Day not as a punchline, not as a rebuild-in-progress, but as something far mo ...