Monday, February 16, 2015

JAL’s Sultans of Swing Morning Links







Sultans of Swing  Dire Straits  1979  61st most popular song of the year, which tells you a lot music in 1979.  1979 Pirates were pretty good Sultans of Swing

GENERAL UPDATED BASEBALL SITES

1- MLB Transactions


2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates


3 BFFL’s 2014 Pirates Stats Spreadsheet


4 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection



5 Pirates Prospects

Pittsburgh Pirates 2015 Spring Training Tracker



BLOGS and such


6—Pirates Prospects



First Pitch: Everything You Can Expect From Pirates Spring Training



Draft Prospect Watch: Ian Happ Homers Twice, Dillon Tate Looks Terrific in First Career Start



7 Bucs Dugout

Quiz: Members of the 1971 Pirates


8 Green Weenie

2/15: Game Cancelled, Barry Jones, Don Kelly, Russ & the 1990 Lockout...





9 Rumbunter

Black and Golden Age: Pittsburgh Pirates WIN the NL Central in 2015-Part I


Sam Khalifa - the First Pittsburgh Pirate I Can Recall


NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES and Other Media

10 KDKA

Dunlap: 5 Numbers That Will Tell Pirates’ Story



11 Vavel

> Interview With Gage Hinsz Of The MiLB Pirates</b>


12 Cincinnati Enquirer

Despite doubters, Reds aim for top of NL Central



13 Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs' Kris Bryant seems to be a matter of when, not if



14 St Louis Post Dispatch

10 questions about the 2015 Cardinals


15 USA Today

MLB's remaining free agents: Where will they land?


16 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

Q&A with Milwaukee Brewers manager Ron Roenicke


17 CBS Sports

Grading the Offseason: AL Central



18 Fangraphs

Rotographs Positional Rankings



19 Sports on Earth

TOP FIVE SPRING TRAINING STORIES



20 Just a Bit Outside

JABO PODCAST: FINALLY! MLB CONSIDERS A MUCH-NEEDED CHANGE


21 Baseball Prospectus

2015 Organizational Rankings


22 Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Just saying hello ...


23Tribune Review

The case against shrinking the strike zone