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The Pirates dodged a bullet Tuesday when Damaso Marte walked away from a multi-car accident in the Dominican Republic with apparently nothing worse than a sore neck. Marte was on his way to a workout with the Licey Tigers, his team in the Dominican Winter League, when he wound up in a three-car fender bender. [...]

The newness of PNC Park has worn off. The All-Star Game has come and gone. There was no Adam LaRoche-type player added to the roster this offseason. This summer, against an improved NL Central Division, the Pirates will field pretty much the same team that lost 94 games in 2007. My question for you is, [...]

The Pirates have made a bid to keep Freddy Sanchez around through at least 2010. The team has offered a contract for two years with an option for a third. However, neither side will divulge the dollar amounts involved, so it’s hard to say how legit this offer is or what chance it has to [...]

I think one of the most interesting moments of today’s Hot Stove Luncheon at PNC Park came when GM Neal Huntington was talking about the missteps taken by the Pirates’ previous management team. “We didn’t have patience,” Huntington said. “We didn’t make good baseball trades.” Sitting in the back of the room, at a table [...]