Neal Huntington

MLB Team Report - Pittsburgh Pirates - INSIDE PITCH From the day pitchers and catchers reported to spring training back in February in Bradenton, Fla., the Pirates have talked about their improved pitching depth. They have had to rely upon that depth...

No. 28 Pirates: 3rd in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Padres. While it may not be enough to soothe the pain of 19 consecutive losing seasons, Pirates fans at least have someone to blame. That would be Pedro Alvarez, or perhaps Greg...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Pittsburgh Pirates - INSIDE PITCH Gerrit Cole will make his much-anticipated major-league debut Tuesday night when he faces defending World Series champion San Francisco and two-time Cy Young award winner Tim...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Pittsburgh Pirates - INSIDE PITCH The first round of the draft couldn't have worked out much better for the Pirates. The Pirates not only drafted one of the players they had been focusing strongly on for weeks,...

Tony La Russa might be managing the 2012 White Sox if not for one reason — if he returned to Chicago, he would have had to manage against his best friend in baseball, Jim Leyland. That wasn't going to happen, according to some who know La Russa...

New rules, new attitudes. That may be what's needed to understand the changes to the baseball draft. Always the quirkiest distribution system for talent in pro sports, Major League Baseball has added layers of complications with spending limits and...

Thirteen pitchers eligible to play for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic received points in Cy Young voting. That, sports fans, should largely be the pitching staff for the team Joe Torre will manage. Imagine a starting rotation of R.A. Dickey,...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks traded shortstop John McDonald to Pittsburgh on Wednesday for a player to be named or cash, giving the Pirates some much-needed infield depth.   The trade came two days after Pirates backup shortstop Chase...

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting looked over the $10 million renovation of McKechnie Field — the team's spring training home — and took a moment to marvel at how far the franchise has come since he took over...

When Dan Duquette was hired roughly a year ago as the club’s executive vice president, the Orioles pointed to his impressive track record in the past with the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox. He was in charge of some very good teams –...

The Rockies are excited that new manager Walt Weiss understands baseball played at altitude but local knowledge is hardly his only qualification. He knows winning baseball, playing on postseason teams in eight of his 13 full seasons in the big leagues....