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A number of their recent first-round picks have fizzled while others have become fixtures in a big-league lineup .

This evaluation of Pirates top prospect Jameson Taillon was written before his most recent performance, which wasn't very good, but after a couple of others that also were not so good.

The Pirates put a dazzling exclamation point on top of a memorable first half of the season today at PNC Park by almost effortlessly dispatching the San Francisco Giants, 13-2. It was an embarrassment of riches for the Pirates.

In a Hollywood movie about a girl next door and a high school kid, a spiky-haired man offers this painfully simple advice on investments: "Make sure the juice is worth the squeeze." I really hope Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington has watched "The Girl Next Door" recently, because after his questionable decision earlier this week to ... (more)

The Pirates' 2010 second round draft pick is a guy namedA Stetson Allie. A He's a pitcher with 100 m.p.h. gas who has a bit of a control problem.