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Tuesday officially begins a two-week period in which Major League Baseball hands out its postseason awards for 2009.

Latest sign that things are slowly changing on Federal Street: when the Red Sox traded for Jeremy Hermida yesterday and only gave up two minor league arms, I didn't go apopletic about the Pirates not being involved.

Yesterdaya s trade of Jesse Chavez for Akinori Iwamura was hardly a blockbuster.

Andrew McCutchne's rookie season with the Pirates went about as well as he could have hoped.

A Pirates rookie received a big honor Monday morning from a national magazine. 'Baseball America' named Andrew McCutchen the 2009 Major League Rookie of the Year.

Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen was named major league rookie of the year by Baseball America.

Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, left, come to the aide of a fan who was hit by a foul ball down the first baseline in the seventh inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh Friday, Aug.

Here is part one in a seven-part series that will take an in-depth look at how each of the Pirates' Minor League affiliates fared during the 2009 season.

It's time for the NL Rookie of the Year ballot for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance awards.

It's the first Inbox edition of what is set to be an interesting offseason for the Pirates.

The NL had a few rookies make big impacts on their teams this season. Off of memory, I can't remember a year in which a league featured so many rookies that should be mentioned for Rookie of the Year.

Altoona Curve third baseman Pedro Alvarez was ranked the top prospect in the Eastern League by Baseball America.

On the first day of the 2009-2010 offseason, a few things are immediately clear.

It was the 14th of August on a pleasant afternoon in Altoona, and Neal Huntington was at an Eat'n Park, picking at lunch while clicking at a laptop to keep up with his Pirates.

In the Pirates ' final game of the year, the Bucs managed to put a staggering fifteen men on base--ten hits, including a triple, plus four walks and a hit batsman--without plating a single one of them.

McCutchen, the Pirates ' top draft pick in 2005, played well enough this summer to rank among the top Rookie of the Year candidates.

Pittsburgh Pirates' Jason Jaramillo hits a two-run double off Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Ted Lilly, scoring Garrett Jones and Steve Pearce, during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Sept.

Well, here we are again. It has been 17 painful years since our Pittsburgh Pirates have made the October Classic.

Less than 24 hours after being satirized on a "Saturday Night Live" skit, the Pirates, now formally christened a laughingstock by the nation's arbiter of such things, suffered their final indignity with a 6-0 silencing by the Cincinnati Reds yesterday at Great American Ball Park.

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