Sunday, March 16, 2014

JAL’s The Beat Goes On Morning Links










The Beat Goes On  Sonny and Cher


GENERAL DAILY UPDATED BASEBALL SITES

1- MLB Transactions


2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates


3 BFFL’s 2014 Pirates Stats Spreadsheet


4 Pirates Prospects Spring Training Tracker


BLOGS and such

 

5—Pirates Prospects


An Early Look at the 2014 Pirates Minor League Rosters: Pitchers



Draft Prospect Watch: Kolek Dominates With Triple Digit Fastball


6 Bucs Dugout

Edinson Volquez struggles as Pirates lose



7 Rumbunter

Jose Tabata: Just Another Heart Breaker?



8 Green Weenie

3/15: Nellie King, Big Deal, Jim Bibby, Hit Man, Ian Snell...


9 SaberBucs

>Pedro Alvarez and the $135 Million Extension.



10 Call to the Pen

Season Preview: Pittsburgh Pirates


NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES and Other Media

11 Altoona Mirror

Mehno: The Madness heats up


12 Bradenton Herald
                                   
Pittsburgh Pirates | Turnaround artist Clint Hurdle vows to 'live it on the edge'


13 Comcast Sports Net

NL Central preview: Can McCutchen and the Pirates do it again?


14 Pirates Site

Cumpton may have lead in race for rotation spot


'Happy' with start, Volquez focused on command



15 Wall Street Journal

Switch Hitters Who Should Stop Switching



16 Cincinnati Enquirer

Billy Hamilton's speed is still surprising


17 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Brewers' Wei-Chung Wang hopes to jump from rookie ball to majors


18 St. Louis Post Gazette

Less is more for Craig, Cards


19 Fangraphs

Jimmy Rollins and the Incentives of Vesting Options




20 MLB Nation

A study of strikeouts and strikeout faces


21 Post Gazette

Edinson Volquez still working hard to earn Pirates' No. 5 spot


22 Tribune review

Kovacevic: These Pirates have spring in step


Rise of Pirates' Polanco is old-school success story for new-age franchise