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In the Pittsburgh Pirates' first 50 games, you had to wonder if they would wind up as the "Andrew McCutchen and Friends" show. They were struggling to score three runs per game, averaging 2.9 while playing break-even baseball. The focus was on McC...

Justin Verlander very nearly pulled off a no-hitter against the Pirates, which would have been his third career no-hitter. Two outs shy of the feat, the Pirates' Josh Harrison waved his bat in time to flick a soft liner up the middle, thwarting the t...

If the American League has very few stable platoons but a few identifiable platoon players getting work, is the National League any better off? Even with today's bigger bullpens, the absence of a DH gives NL skippers and GMs a little more freedom to ...