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Mound Visit: Brault the hidden ingredient? ☕

POSTED: 12:18 AM Friday

Steven Brault has turned himself into an adequate starting depth option for the Pirates. How has he done it?

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Mound Visit: How bad is Archer’s fastball? ☕️

POSTED: 1:03 AM Thursday

Chris Archer's fastballs -- both his four-seam and two-seam/sinker -- are objectively bad this season. After getting tagged for four home runs off of the heat in his last start,...

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Mound Visit: Assessing Tucker’s first taste ☕️

POSTED: 1:02 AM Wednesday

Cole Tucker is headed back to Triple-A Indianapolis after being optioned by the Pittsburgh Pirates. How did he fare over the first 38 major league games?

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Mound Visit: Marte’s partay rages anew ☕️

POSTED: 12:35 AM Tuesday

Starling Marte hit two home runs last night. They weren’t enough to stave off the free fall that the Pirates are seemingly embarking on, but they may have been enough...

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Mound Visit: Moran barrels to consistency ☕️

POSTED: 10:48 PM June 9, 2019

Colin Moran has turned into a fully realized version of himself by barreling more balls than he ever has before. While not without his faults, Moran is now an effective...

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Mound Visit: Primer on pitching metrics ☕️

POSTED: 3:45 PM June 7, 2019

In the world of advanced stats, it would seem that pitchers have all the fun. Here now is a primer on those saber-metric terms that help us measure the ability...

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Mound Visit: Primer on hitting metrics ☕

POSTED: 12:05 AM June 6, 2019

During my time here at DKPittsburghSports, I have endeavored to slip in some of baseball's advanced stats in meaningful ways. To me, advanced stats, or Sabermetrics as they are referred...

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Mound Visit: Musgrove’s fastball lagging ☕

POSTED: 12:06 AM June 5, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The trouble began for Joe Musgrove, tonight’s scheduled starter against the Brewers at PNC Park, on May 3. The scene began in the top of the second inning...

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Mound Visit: Newman figured something out ☕

POSTED: 12:21 AM June 4, 2019

Life has a funny way of just popping up with unexpected plot twists.

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Mound Visit: Bryan belongs ☕

POSTED: 12:06 AM June 3, 2019

at Highmark Stadium

Bryan Reynolds belongs. That's the singular word that I keep deciding accurately describes how comfortable he has looked during his first taste of the big leagues.

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Mound Visit: Vazquez continues to evolve ☕

POSTED: 12:04 AM May 27, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Felipe Vazquez’s 2019 can be best described as a nightmare that opposing hitters simply cannot wake up from. The scary truth is that the dawn is nowhere in...

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Mound Visit: Finding the fatal (and fixable) flaws ☕

POSTED: 12:11 AM May 21, 2019

I'm told that the man whose initials christen this site is a comic book fan, specifically Green Lantern.

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Mound Visit: How Frankie got his filth back ☕

POSTED: 12:07 AM May 13, 2019

Francisco Liriano has blossomed in the Pirates' bullpen thus far this season by regaining the break on his slider.

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Mound Visit: Living and dying on the edge

POSTED: 10:05 PM May 6, 2019

A minor-league pitching coach from another organization I used to cover once shared with me a tidbit that has stayed with me ever since.

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Mound Visit: Taillon’s slide traced to slider

POSTED: 12:26 AM April 30, 2019

Let's just dispense with the notion that Jameson Taillon is the Pirates' "fifth starter" right now. Even though, technically, yeah that might just be true.

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Mound Visit: Bell’s revival is, uh, breaking news

POSTED: 12:03 AM April 22, 2019

Josh Bell is certainly off to a great start in silencing doubters who pointed to an up-and-down 2018 serving as a barometer for his future as a middle of the lineup...

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Mound Visit: Don’t quit on Kela