This was an easy game to come in feeling cocky. The Pirates, despite a strong start to their season, do not have a reputation as a juggernaut. Even with a winning record, they haven't done much...

WPA: Like Boss: Felix Hernandez (.404), Michael Saunders (.312)Weak Sauce: Kyle Seager (-.208), Kendrys Morales (-.136) Felix Hernandez continues devouring lineups, this time to the tune of 8...

Discuss: Felix Day at Pittsburgh

This is Part II in a series endeavoring to cover one oddball event, occurrence, statistic, story, or some other piece of information or minutiae from the game's history that is both fun and...

We were doomed from the start. As soon as we let the thought into our heads that the Pirates scratching their starting pitcher and one of their most productive hitters right before gametime...

WPA Came to rescue: Raul Ibanez (.122), Charlie Furbush (.033) Sank with ship: Carter Capps (-.091), Michael Morse (-.087) FanGraphs game page

Discuss: Seattle Mariners at Pittsburgh Pirates

Aaron Harang looks like a Pirate. He looks like both a Pirate and a pirate. He looks like one who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation. It's not...

In one of the stranger schedules we've encountered, the Seattle Mariners jump from an April that featured the ebb and flow of an indentured servant's to a week in the life of the NBA, playing two...

I spend far too much time doing nothing productive on sites like Fangraphs and Baseball Reference. They're enormous bastions of information and I literally get lost for hours doing silly things...