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    PixBurgh Pie-Rats sign Russel Martin!!!!

    on hold right now with Bucco season ticket line

    getting my WS tix now!!!

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

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    Pretty good signing if you ask me.

    He will help that pitching staff out a TON.

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

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

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

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    Mccutchen still Pitts only good player

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoulihansTX View Post
    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

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    The only black catcher left in baseball.

    Exciting news to say the least.

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    Rod Barajas comparison was spot on.

    that is what Martin has become.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    The only black catcher left in baseball.

    Exciting news to say the least.
    More importantly Canandian. Only Black Canadian Catcher in MLB.

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    maybe the only black canadian to ever play MLB?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ebbearsfb1 View Post
    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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by lunchbawks View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brock Landers View Post
    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..............

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chi_archie View Post
    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

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    Pirates = GIGO

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevenash View Post
    Doug Drabek for Clements and Rick Rhoden
    good one. I think the Pirates got Brian Fisher in that trade too.

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    Russel martin is not black

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    massive upgrade over barajas mchenry.

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    martins mixed btw, afro canadian father and white mother.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by thetrinity View Post
    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..............

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

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    I could see Pirates giving Mchenry 50-60 starts

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

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    NL Player of the Week: Russell Martin

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