The Pittsburgh Pirates will start the second half of the season with a nine-game homestand at PNC Park, facing the Chicago White Sox for a weekend series.Left-handed pitcher Bailey Falter starts the series opener on July 16 for the Pirates,

Pittsburgh has not yet made its first selection in the 2025 MLB Draft. In Sunday's first round, the team is slated to pick sixth overall. The Pirates have $14,088,400 in bonus pool spending, according to MLB . That money can be used to sign players drafted by the Pirates in the first 10 rounds.

Preview the July 18 matchup between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox with recent trends, how to watch, livestream info, and more.

When you factor in new information, new tools, metrics, scouting reports and managing the available bonus pool, the MLB Draft can be “a little more art than science sometimes,” as Pirates director of amateur scouting Justin Horowitz put it.

The New York Mets are set up to be buyers at the trade deadline. They need southpaws in the bullpen, but may not limit themselves to just lefties if they are adding relievers.

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For a couple of days, at least, the Pirates were stars in Atlanta. It was fun while it lasted. Oneil Cruz hitting bombs as only he sometimes can in the

Ben Cherington wasted no time to address the Pittsburgh Pirates after a failure of a first half in which they fired the manager, tied a dubious major league record and endured the pendulum swing of successive sweeps that involved back-to-back series with shutout wins and losses.