The RISE And FALL Of The Pirates

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[@patrickhutchison6465]

The city of Pittsburgh was electric during this period of baseball. We are used to watching the Steelers and Penguins contend for titles. The pirates are different. Anytime they win we feel like we are beating a system as a small market team. Unfortunately it didn’t last long.

[@TrueFootballFan]

2024 roster will be loaded with top picks again .. should see some improvement in 2023

[@EKNYR]

Honestly, I’m not a local, but I feel so bad for the loyal pirates fans. I go to watch the cubs at PnC and it’s so beautiful and the fans fucking love the pirates. They deserve better and I’ll always have a soft spot for the buccos.

[@alexandervaldivia8232]

Two franchises that need to meet in a world series that would produce the most electric crowds White Sox vs Pirates. Will it ever happen? Who knows but both fans are known for being passionate and severely underrated

[@wyattjoseph6819]

There's so many underrated passionate fanbases in the mlb. White sox, pirates, reds, a's, tigers, royals, etc. All these teams have really great fanbases but they've been ruined by owners or have just sucked for a long time.

[@kathyurschel8983]

@@wyattjoseph6819 the problem is a combo of a soft cap and no min spending. My opinion as a reds fan.

[@kathyurschel8983]

@@wyattjoseph6819 we sold every good player for a decade to keep votto who is great but not worth two pitchers and at least Bruce.

[@ethanearley8802]

Could be possible if Pirates develop at the very least moderately and spend like 2015 and the white Sox drop get a good head coach and add a bit more

[@feenaurm]

A really electric World Series would be guardians vs brewers

[@dineshbrahmam3528]

As someone who has seen O'Neil Cruz play in person, can confirm that he is in fact 10 ft tall

[@tloud600]

Same I personally think he 10”1

[@ethanniedorowski116]

That's the Hayes Castro effect

[@strongestnattyever-videos2247]

*No, he’s listed at 6’7*

[@Aqwtiny]

I’ve always had a soft spot for the pirates. They were just one piece away 13-15 and ownership just didn’t use much money. But such a historic franchise, beautiful park, beautiful unis, beautiful merch

[@dcoker9738]

Pirates and One Piece i see what u did there

[@sean8470]

also awesome concessions

[@Aqwtiny]

@@dcoker9738 Haha that was unintentional nice catch I got a nice chuckle

[@theepeefencer2021]

Growing up in Pittsburgh and being a fan it's been sad watching them the last few seasons. I think upper management needs to be completely rebuilt that might be the only thing to help this team

[@Welshy-xb4sd]

As a brit who's discovered baseball through your videos I can't say anything more then keep up the good work

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[@kyleravensbergen385]

So what team do you cheer for

[@Welshy-xb4sd]

The phillys I love Bryce harper man and how they've just based a team around out scoring the opposition

[@evansmusic7877]

@@Welshy-xb4sd yay welcome to the Phillies family! We are so glad to have you!

[@sendAJtospace]

I seriously wish I was a baseball fan during Cutch’s prime Even the latter half of the 2010’s and beyond, it has been so fun to watch him whenever I could

[@gfox9295]

He's back!

[@cameronglabb1422]

I love this team with all my heart, and it’s broken my heart every year to see this franchise and it’s decisions and the lack of development of its players and not firing the ones responsible, everyone counts this team out and talks terribly about them, it hurts, I can’t wait for when we come back and shake the MLB, prove everyone wrong, go Bucs

[@inline885]

Neil Walker for Jonathan Niese was the beginning of the end IMO. I get Walker’s best years were behind him, but he was our starting second baseman and he was traded for the Mets’ 6th best starting pitcher at the time.

[@komickaze85]

In 2019, I had a co-worker who was a Pirates fan and would listen to the radio broadcasts and say things like, "They're playing like a Little League team!" So, I'm glad I didn't grow up a Pirates fan. My team has had success in this century (Red Sox), but just had a brutal offseason where we lost most of our free agents, Bogaerts and Eovaldi hurting the most. Story needs surgery, so our team will be like the Pirates this coming year at best. I think the Pirates will be good in a couple of years, like the Astros got good fast (but without the cheating of course). I want them to do good. It's not like I hate their players like I hate Machado for ruining Pedroia's career. And now Bogey is going to play beside him! At least for a year if Machado opts out after 2023. Just typing to see if maybe I can give you more video ideas.

[@clickbait3753]

I recently met with the pirates GM, and it was pretty sad with how honest he was of how the cheap the team is lol

[@PatMacProductions]

As a Pirate fan, I can confidently say that Bringing mccutchen back was the best thing the Pirates have done in the past decade

[@rexlint2520]

😂😂😂😂

[@anglerprod]

There actually 5-2 I know it’s the start of the season tho

[@jreiland07]

Posted at least two months before the season began. Time traveler confirmed.

[@EliteExpert]

Major problem with the pirates is our ownership! I work at a resort that was owned by Bob Nutting (Current owner of the pirates worth around 1 Billion $) He paid house keepers who worked there for 9+ years just $9/hr (this was in 2022) My position is being a ski instructor where i made $7.25/hr I say all this to show that the man is simply a cheap businessman and you see it with the day to day operations of the team. I’m not asking him to throw money around like Steven Cohen (Current Mets owner) but when you have players on your team that are near generational talent levels you need to pay them. I go to school for sport’s management and I would never accept the role of GM of the pirates if it was handed to me because of the business practices that are currently in place. Being savvy and lucky through trading and drafting is your only hope and even when your prospects hit you have a very short window to do anything with them! I love the city of Pittsburgh and glad we have 2 teams that conduct business the right way. I only hope the pirates can be the 3rd team for the sake of the players, employees, and culture of the city Great video keep up the amazing work

[@aaronprince5737]

I remember taking them pirates teams on the old MLB 2k baseball game they were fun...... Andrew McCutchen was fun to watch the year he won the NL MVP

[@davidgraney3413]

I've never heard the 'Burgh as loud as it was the night Cueto dropped that ball. After Russell sent that ball over the left field fence I was def for the next 20 minutes with a little tinitus after lol. If only our ownership tried to keep our talent we would have had years of playoff baseball but unfortunately front office lets talent walk or trades for peanuts. SELL THE TEAM NUTTING!!!

[@RamboMonkey18]

Bro i appreciate your videos. Nice to see someone making high quality baseball videos

[@stevetee5076]

Perhaps few recall, but the now dominant Houston Astros lost over 100 games three consecutive years, 2011-2013. The Oakland A’s made the playoffs 6 times between 2012-2020. The Boston Red Sox made the playoffs 11 times between 2003-2021, winning 4 World Series, but during that span finished in last place 4 times. Franchises typically have good runs with bad seasons interspersed.

[@sotomoto1984]

Bro those Pirates teams in from 2013-2015 where fun to watch..I always rooted for them even tho I’m a Dodgers fan.

[@MusicalSingingLife]

I totally agree with you!!!!!!!!!! I’m a Dodgers Fan too but I want to support the Pirates because they’re my hometowns team!!!!!!!!!

[@guidohuter6703]

It doesn´t matter for me how well are the Pirates. I´m a fan since end of the 80´s. That´s matter for me. I go through the valley of tears and enjoy every win. Thx for your recap. Recards from Finland.

[@inconnu4961]

Impressive! To follow the pirates so passionately, from so far away! I was a Pirates fan growing up in the 1980s ( I lived a few hours away from Pburgh)

[@guidohuter6703]

@@inconnu4961 Thx. I was a fan of Jim Gott and Andy Van Slyke. This is how it started. Will see if I ever see a game in Pittsburgh.

[@sweezy2k233]

I do truly believe we are almost back. We are starting to get our prospects to the majors and still have such an incredibly deep and talented farm system. I also know reynolds isnt going anywhere and we will give him his money

[@rexlint2520]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Purp4040]

C'mon who looks good honestly? Mccutchen 38. Oneil cruz hovered around 190 ba majority on average the best prospects we never see cause they trade them before they come up. They are getting older guys to hopefully get a few fans in but other than that. They are a team of nothingness

[@Purp4040]

Reynolds wants out for a reason

[@ronnsnow2859]

Cherington deserves credit for what he's put together so far in Pittsburgh. Their record over the last 3 years is irrelevant. This is year 4 of a 5 year rebuild, and at that time a team should be showing signs of improvement and debuting of the young players Cherington has acquired. And this is exactly what they are. This reminds me of the 2012 team, maybe a year away from truly contending but will play much better baseball. Though the NL Central is weak. If the Pirates can hover around .500, they'll be in division contention until the end of the season.

[@41Brother2]

What are you smoking? These 1 year deals will be gone by the deadline when they're already well out of it. They have piss poor coaching that can't improve any of their young players. Cherington is a shitty GM with 0 clue as to what he's doing

[@bhdf5304]

This is the most important year for pirates baseball in a long time. There NEEDS to be improvement this year to be a playoff team in the next couple seasons. If we are another 100 loss team I don't see playoffs for another 6-7 years

[@phillyphan1994]

Fitting this comes out the day before Cutch returns to Pittsburgh haha

[@gfox9295]

Indeed.

[@alexmajocha6127]

Can’t believe you missed the Polanco buyout that was our biggest expense in 2021

[@BlueRad90]

The Pirates could have a potentially monster rotation of Gerrit Cole, Tyler Glasnow, Jameson Taillon, and Charlie Morton. But they were ended up traded away or left on FA.

[@do-not-subscribe]

They were actually all traded. Morton was sent to the Phillies for a guy named David whitehead 😂

[@ethanearley8802]

That was never going to happen, Glasnow was never gonna develop like that in Pittsburgh, Cole cost too much, Roansey is cheaper and better than Taillon and Charlie was not pitching his worth here

[@davidkurvach3993]

Reminds me how the Pirates had rotation of Jason Schmidt, Esteban Loaiza and Jon Lieber. They all went on to have great success... with other teams.

[@41Brother2]

@@ethanearley8802 Roansy isn't staying here long-term either. Give it a few years he'll be pitching in an Astros uniform or something

[@ethanearley8802]

@@41Brother2 I didn’t say anything about him staying long term and that’s not even how it works. He has 6 more years on his contract so u might wanna slow your roll. He’s def not a life time pirates but it’s not two years out

[@grayb23]

You forgot to mention that the Cardinals, Pirates and Cubs were the best teams in all of baseball at the end of the season. Top 3 teams in one division and two of those three have their season come down to a one game playoff. As a pirates fan it was heartbreaking.

[@SchruteFarms]

As a Cards fan I remember seeing the Pirates make the playoffs and was nothing but happy for them. I know this isn’t really related, it please make your primary logo what it used to be. Just a “P” is super lame.

[@joeyziccarelli3384]

MLB screwed us as a small market but as soon as the big markets lost in the wild card an extra postseason team was added, 98 wins and losing in the wild card is a tragedy but its MLB all bout the Dodgers

[@rexlint2520]

I don't consider the run from 2013-2015 a rise for the Pirates. Sure they made 3 straight wild card games. And in year 1 they won the game against the Reds. However the owner refused to add much needed real talent. And they lost in 5 to the Cards because of it. And they lost the next 2 wild card games because they still refused to add much needed real help at the deadline. Then they began to sell off the remaining talent for more prospects. And have had just 1 winning season since

[@RhinoXpress]

2023 is seeming to be a good year for the pirates so far. They're winning series.

[@ThatDonParker]

I think the most frustrating thing about the 2013-2015 seasons were having great records and having to settle for the Wild Card spots. The Pirates have never won the NL Central.

[@tonychen3628]

It just hurts that almost every farm raised piece Bucs traded last few years find way bigger success in some ways on the OTHER TEAMS(Cole, Meadows, Baz, Glasnow etc), while the ones remains like Tucker and Moran struggle so bad.😓 I kinda understand why Reynolds wants to leave, it's just hard to wait for fans, not even mentioning it for players.

[@PeaceUpH-Town]

The fact you can pump out these videos practically daily is insane!

[@joeymorgan1364]

best park in the mlb, those playoff runs were so much fun for the city

[@ethanearley8802]

You forgot to talk about the pitching core emerging. Minus a horrid first two months of the season, Mitch Keller was fantastic, Contreras is nuts, Luis Ortiz consistently flames at 100, Oviedo was solid, and that’s not even getting into guys who haven’t touched the majors yet like Quin Priester and Mike Burrows.

[@alwillk]

None of those guys are #1s or 2s.

[@ethanearley8802]

@@alwillk your just flat out wrong

[@captainawesome103]

Pirates are one of the few teams that though they are not “my” team, I root for them to do well. Stinks that there’s a few team that are basically a tax write off for their owners. When the pirates are good baseball is better for it

[@greg5775]

Same here. Even though I am Cards fan, their fans deserve a winner.

[@MusicalSingingLife]

Same here and I’m a Dodgers Fan!!!!!!!! I was born and raised in Pittsburgh so I want to support my hometown team but I can’t until Bob Nutting sells the team!!!!!!!!!

[@DoctorEw220]

We're used to getting let down by the Pirates here in Pittsburgh.

[@rigilballester6613]

Look at there division rn

[@caydenlogan9663]

Crazy how the day after posted andrew came back to pitt

[@jaylenbarnes2.079]

Fantastic Video; and also I was wondering did you ever do the Rise and Fall Video of the San Francisco Giants

[@homelessjesse9453]

McCutchen to the Giants for Reynolds? Talk about a terrible trade.

[@TheLastPrime38]

Awesome video! Can you do a rise and fall of the Angel's?

[@kevyg973]

shoutout to oneil cruz, my diamond dynasty SS for life

[@jmhorn]

Cruz is fun to watch. Also, clever song choice!

[@horrorknight3096]

Yankees fan here but love the Caribbean music in the back. Nice touch...love your work!

[@Gemnist98]

For real, the NL Central may just have the most perfect slope of quality of all the divisions, from the horrendous Reds to the bad Pirates to the decent Cubs to the fairly great Brewers and finally to the excellent Cardinals. Personally cheering for the Brewers, but man, this is bizarre.

[@jaylacko7852]

nice timing

[@Get_ROWEdy57]

Nothing will change until the team is finally under new ownership and it’s painful.

[@hepatitiscyalater7269]

Pirates wanted Will Smith, Dustin May, Keibert Ruiz, and Gavin Lux for Felipe Vasquez 😂. They overvalue their players probably out of trauma from past trades. They are doing it again with the asking price for Reynolds. He is a star but not worth the Soto type package which is what they want 😂

[@chunkysnugmemezz]

Probably one of the best yt channels out there imo, continue to do what you do best. Goat🐐

[@crowtservo]

3:05 This is why I’m loving every minute of Adam Wainwright’s 2023 season. 7.18 ERA. I’m glad he’s going out as one of the worst pitchers in the game. As a fan, I don’t know if 2014-18 was frustrating as much as it felt like it had been stolen from us. Call it sour grapes but it sure seemed like the 2013-15 Cardinals tried their best to make sure the Pirates didn’t win the division. But in 2016-18 it seemed like they laid down for the Cubs and let them win the division. But that’s just how I saw it.

[@idkbro8470]

I appreciate the pirates of the Caribbean theme in background lol.

[@FightOn-qi1vs]

No one’s gonna mention this dude our pirates of Caribbean music over a pirates video

[@zerolazer9530]

as a pirates fan, i knew this was coming

[@rigilballester6613]

Buddy there tide for 1st play there division rn soo yeah

[@seanweber4786]

I think it was worth mentioning how terrible the umpire was at maintaining the strike zone in that cubs game Arrieta was getting strike calls on whatever he threw makes it a lot harder to score when you’re striking out on balls 6 inches off the plate

[@randomcub922]

I love the Pirates of the Caribbean music in the background 😂

[@jacklempke7779]

Your narration continues to improve. Cool to see.

[@Garf_malarf]

Love the pirates of the Caribbean background music.

[@kiefdemon1979]

Starling Marte(which you actually mispronounced his name) and Antonio Bastardo were both on the Pirates and they are both my cousins. Marte is my grandma's cousin, Bastardo is my first cousin. The only times I followed this team.

[@cameronglabb1422]

Love Marte, I got his autograph in Anaheim when they played the Angels, he was always one of my favorites, still love seeing him play today on the Mets

[@jonah5503]

This is the gerrit cole i'll love n remember edit: ps Jason Grilli was really fun to watch pitch

[@heythatsprettygood1237]

I hope we see a fall and rise video for the pirates soon

[@gottago1885]

Hahaha

[@augustlevinson2139]

Here after mchutchen went back to the bucks

[@bradyfisher2115]

CUTCH IS BACK

[@brendanshaffer4351]

Man I miss this team soooooo much

[@UHOH_415]

When you forget about not touching first base when there is two outs in an inning, just oof. Sell the Team Nutting.

[@carlwilliams9642]

Crazy that 10 years ago both the Reds and the Pirates were good.

[@shermanngjazz]

Everyone should go watch UrinatingTree ripping on the Pirates lol

[@hojocollider5276]

Oh the Buckos.... Am I the only one that feels Bryan Reynolds is overplaying his hand? When Nolan Arenado requested a trade from the Rockies he had the numbers, and had put in the time in CO to support a desire to leave. Bryan Reynolds still has a lot of work to do in that respect. He had a decent 2022, but he's not exactly coming off a 300+ BA, 100+ RBI, and 30+ HR campaign for the asking price. I feel like he has the potential to do that, so I can see why the Pirates are reluctant to trade him. I don't think teams should get in the habit of trading players away just because that player doesn't like the current situation, that's bad for the game. I had mad respect for Cutch, he was on some pretty dumpster fire Pirates teams, but they eventually got their shot at the Postseason, he did his time. Reynolds just completed his 4th season, and he's not exactly Barry Bonds.

[@shawswervoo]

I find it crazy that the Pirates have 5 World Series & last won in 1979. You would’ve thought that they were the brewers lol.

[@pittsburghbob69]

The Gerri Cole trade tree(which would include the Musgrove return) is David Bednar and Endy Rodriguez. Cutch brought back Reynolds. Marte - Liover Peguero. The J.Taillon return was Roansy Contreras. Adam Frazier - Jack Suwinski. The Josh Bell trade was bad but they traded him at wrong time. They traded him coming off a horrible season and at his lowest value. The mistake in the Archer trade was adding Shane Baz as the PTBNL. And that was even the thought at the time. Glasnow can’t stay healthy and Meadows is ok but Archer was the prize at that trade deadline. Most of this information in this video isn’t exactly right.

[@pittsburghbob69]

2017 Archer was an All-Star that had 201 IP with 249 K.

[@kylecherpak4306]

Buccos saw this and got salty, and gave Cutch a call to come back😂

[@matthewsherwood8401]

You should do this for the 2010s orioles

[@Don8088]

McCutchen just signed with the Pirates 🏴‍☠️

[@johnbob5137]

If only there was a way to watch alternate timelines where they kept those great players for just 1 more year

[@AJ_savage16]

Good video you should do the ride and fall of the Detroit tigers they were good from late 2000s til about 2014..then they hit rock bottom

[@dylanlowers5236]

The 2015 Pirates really could have won it all. They were red hot going into the post season and swept the Mets who won the NL, twice. But they got screwed over by the wildcard game. But at the same time they wouldn’t have been there without the wild card game

[@Anthony-sj8je]

Although in hindsight it was a bad decision, trading for archer in 2018 was the result of a 10 game winning streak which had them in striking distance of a playoff spot. If that doesn’t happen they don’t make the trade

[@Shahhh]

I go to pitt games all the time every season i live about an hour away so everytime i go we win, may it's superstition i think i should go all the time because i want my boys to succeed

[@bafa7353]

2016: Did not re-sign JA Happ and replaced him with a washed up Vogelsong. Happ would go on to win 20 games in 2016. Traded Neil Walker for a scrub starter named Jon Niese. They could have stayed competitive for a few more years after 2015.

[@PadawanBran]

It feels like the Pirates are the Oakland A's of the National League. Always trading away their young star players because they don't want to pay them.

[@kylewakeboards]

I see what you did with the music 😂

[@tristonwebb7045]

I didn’t even realize the pirates had THAT many great players at points. It’s like the marlins around the same exact time 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😅

[@nate4164]

Could you do a rise and fall episode of the reds please

[@tommythamert5735]

Pain

[@D_theet25]

Anyone else off of work today?😏

[@adopezebra]

Sent home early cuz of snow!

[@stalebread4984]

Rise and fall and rise again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@harrisonsilvester6350]

Cutch came back just because of this video

[@Andrew-qw6dw]

Now McCutchen is going back to the Pirates, a day after you uploaded this, coincidence?

[@whoishec7615]

Once they got rid of Pedro Alvarez they went down hill……they slowly started getting rid of everyone after that…..they had a mini monster squad

[@noahbrecker8453]

its been a decade since they won a playoff game

[@telexanave2644]

Bryan Reynolds is a future MVP contender

[@Tykoon22]

This shows me that the Pirates are actually quite capable of identifying talent, but absolutely abysmal with asset management.

[@andrewalden8364]

Sure, the Pirates traded Cutch to SF for Reynolds, but now the Buccos have both on the team. So, yeah, I’d say the Pirates won that trade!!!

[@steelcitysportsfan1436]

The pirates just signed Andrew McCutchen today as a free agent. 1 year 5 million dollars.

[@brosbutterlandings5831]

Piratas sign Mccutchen to one year deal 🎉

[@gfox9295]

Not even a Pirates fan, but that's so awesome. ;)

[@tylergoodwin3546]

"For literal trash" hahahaha, imagine one of those players seeing this

[@iTalkStudios]

💀💀💀

[@Wolf-wc1js]

Nice touch with Pirates of the Caribbean music in the beginning

[@mikejanacone8328]

Lifelong fan the rise wasn’t very high, but the fall was rock bottom and that’s after coming off a 20 year none winning season drought

[@jacklempke7779]

You used a new version of Binary Sunset didn’t you? 😉

[@Ariana321]

Probably will be just more pain for the Pirates in 2023. I expect ONeil Cruz to be wearing another uniform before the end of 2024, and any other good players they might have on their roster are probably going to get traded away as well. I'm a Cardinals fan but I don't have any animosity towards the Pirates, and I want to see them start becoming a good (2nd place) team in their division again. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening anytime soon. Not until the rest of the organization finally mutinies against their cheap and incompetent front office, anyway.

[@DjDobleU809]

You meant the Fall and harder Fall of the Pirates.