Jason Grilli Enjoying His Time In Spring Training
The Pirates Closer for the 2013 season, Jason Grilli joined the Fan Morning Show live in Bradenton to talk about Spring Training.
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The Pirates Closer for the 2013 season, Jason Grilli joined the Fan Morning Show live in Bradenton to talk about Spring Training.
Pirates Broadcaster, John Wehner, joined the Fan Morning Show on Monday to talk about the early portion of Pirates' Spring Training.
The Fan Morning Show arrived in Bradenton Sunday just in time to catch the Pirates' Spring Training home opener.
In the first exhibition game of the 2013 season, lefty Jeff Locke set the bar pretty high in the battle for the fifth spot in the Pirates rotation in the Bucs' 3-2 win at the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday afternoon at Charlotte Sports Park.
Brandon Inge has been around a while. But he's never been to a big league camp other than the one in Lakeland, Fla., home of the Detroit Tigers.
The Pirates 2010 and 2011 first round draft picks - Jameson Taillon and Gerrit Cole - squared off against one another in the Black-Gold intra-squad scrimmage Friday afternoon at McKechnie Field.
Just a few years ago, Kyle McPherson was a Neanderthal – at least on the mound.
Jeff Locke was just a young, Single-A pitcher with a lot of upside in 2009. That's when he was traded by the Atlanta Braves to the Pittsburgh Pirates in a very unpopular move at the time.
Garret Jones hit 27 home runs last year, but still finds himself in a battle for playing time at first base as spring training picks up this week.
93.7 The FAN Pirates pre and postgame host Dan Zangrilli provides all the latest news coming out of Pirates spring training.
Jason Grilli talked with the Fan's Dan Zangrilli today in Bradenton, Fla. after a story came out that the Pirates closer was critical of team management at last year's trade deadline.
Pirates General Manager Neal Huntington feels strongly in the direction that his major league club has gone under Manager Clint Hurdle, and while they aren't all the way where they want to be, he was happy enough with the results to reward Hurdle with a new contract.
Vic Black, the Pirates supplemental first round pick in the 2009 draft, enjoyed a 13 save season, where he held opponents to a .189 batting average in 2012, while allowing just one run in both June and July combined while pitching for Double-A Altoona.
New Pirates Infielder Brandon Inge is taking part in his first spring training outside of the Detroit Tigers organization, and told Starkey, Miller and Mueller on Sports Radio 93.7 The FAN that it's pretty different for him, but he's really enjoying it so far.
Clint Hurdle deserves this. He hasn't won a championship. Heck, he hasn't even won more games than he's lost in each of his first two seasons as Pirates manager.
