PixBurgh Pie-Rats sign Russel Martin!!!!

[Chi_archie]

on hold right now with Bucco season ticket line

getting my WS tix now!!!

[ebbearsfb1]

A catcher that can actually hit? O boy.. see ya Ron Barajas

[Big Bear]

Pretty good signing if you ask me.

He will help that pitching staff out a TON.

[Big Bear]

He's not a great hitter anymore but he is a veteran catcher that knows
how to play the game the right way.

[HoulihansTX]

Guy is terrible, and couldnt even hit in Yankee stadium.

Yankees use the Pirate org as a landfill for unwanted players.

[lunchbawks]

Mccutchen still Pitts only good player

[Chi_archie]

Guy is terrible, and couldnt even hit in Yankee stadium.

Yankees use the Pirate org as a landfill for unwanted players.

I think it goes both ways

Xavier Nady? Damaso Marte? Eric Hinske?

Pirates have come out ahead on most of the players switching uniforms from pinstripes to black and gold and vice versa

[The Giant]

The only black catcher left in baseball.

Exciting news to say the least.

[zoo youk]

Rod Barajas comparison was spot on.

that is what Martin has become.

[HoulihansTX]

The only black catcher left in baseball.

Exciting news to say the least.

More importantly Canandian. Only Black Canadian Catcher in MLB.

[zoo youk]

maybe the only black canadian to ever play MLB?

[face]

A catcher that can actually hit? O boy.. see ya Ron Barajas

he was fukkin horrible

rod has been bad for a while, was bad on mets and was bad on dodgers before being bad on pirates

[Brock Landers]

They need to analyze why they keep fading down the stretch, 2 years in a row

[stevenash]

Mccutchen still Pitts only good player

I like what Brock Holt brings to the table, I would like to see him play 140 games at SS or 2B this season. Kid has major potential.

Clint Barmes can't hit his weight anymore (I get it, he's signed through this season, doesn't mean you have to play him, your'e not paying him mega-millions this season anyway), Jordy Mercer isn't as good as Holt either. Josh Harrison isn't the answer either.

[PAULYPOKER]

They need to analyze why they keep fading down the stretch, 2 years in a row

Probably because you start making the Pirates your rubberband plays down the stretch..............

[stevenash]

I think it goes both ways

Xavier Nady? Damaso Marte? Eric Hinske?

Pirates have come out ahead on most of the players switching uniforms from pinstripes to black and gold and vice versa

Doug Drabek for Clements and Rick Rhoden

[HoulihansTX]

Pirates = GIGO

[Chi_archie]

Doug Drabek for Clements and Rick Rhoden

good one. I think the Pirates got Brian Fisher in that trade too.

[Big Bear]

Russel martin is not black

[thetrinity]

massive upgrade over barajas mchenry.

[thetrinity]

martins mixed btw, afro canadian father and white mother.

[Johnnythunder]

He is garbage....could not hit in yankee stadium protected by that lineup...the yankees are lucky he left.

[PAULYPOKER]

massive upgrade over barajas mchenry.

Nothing wrong with mchenry,

It is that fat ass barajas who is a couple twinkies away from a bypass that needs to hit the road..............

[thetrinity]

barajas option was declined anyways, mchenrys an ok backup, but hes not your everyday guy, i like the pickup myself.

[Chi_archie]

I could see Pirates giving Mchenry 50-60 starts

in other news the dumbass front office non-tendered Jeff Karstens

[Chi_archie]

NL Player of the Week: Russell Martin

go figure