Pirates designate Karstens, add RHP Jakubauskas

Is kostickjr@etc. actually Neal Huntington...? Who else would offer this type of tortured logic.

Bring back Alvin O'Neal McBean, one of my favorite Buccos from the 60s.

this is a good move, i think karstens will accept the assignment and will be back with the bucs.. we need some bullpen help and with this i believe its a great step forward. Last year after grabow got traded the bullpen suffered. With Chavez gone, we still need help. Capps will rebound after a tough 09 season and evan meek will be a great setup man. With the capabilities of a potential closer and fill that role when capps needs a break. I would love to see McCutchen bat third with Jones, Alvarez and Doumit to follow. The second baseman they picked up from Tampa Bay batting second in the lineup. This lineup has great potential with Jose Tabata in the mix. I believe with run support Duke, and Maholm can win atleast 15-18 games and Ohlendoph winning about the same. Three starter with atleast 15 wins is not unlikely for this team and would bring alot of cheers to a team that deserves to win.

Wow the average Pirates fan is a moron. All this @#$%ing about trading for prospects makes me want to hurl. Lack of depth is why the Pirates became so bad so quickly. All the trades last year were designed to help remedy that problem. Face it all thoses players we traded, Sanchez, Mclouth, Adam Laroach, Wilson, Grabow, Burnett, and even Jason Bay had years to prove they could mesh as a team and win as a team. And guess what? They did'nt. So I ask you. Does it make sense to keep a bunch of under acheiving "bonafied major leaguers," just because they've been in the majors a few seasons? No it does not. If I slack off at work, I might lose my job. Why not these guys?

#9, thats freakin funny.....sad as well...but mostly funny

Actually all three players were demonted from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh.

Can they call up Clement already?

Should I get my Jeff Clement jersey soon?

Pirates in 2010!!!!


-just kidding, sorry.

My four year old is lefthanded and pretty strong. Next, Nutting will have his lacky GM cut a starter or three and sign my toddler up as long as we're cheap enough. Another losing season and again, Pirates management is doing nothing about it----and in fact, trading off starters again for "prospects." Why won't we ever try to add major league starters to improve NOW? Bob Nutting, please sell the team.

I have a four year old son who appears to be lefthanded---and though he's not accurate, he seems to have a live arm. I imagine Bob Nutting would tell his lackie GM to unload a starter or two and sign my toddler as long as we're cheap enough.
Yeah, seventeen years of torture for someone who grew up watching Clemente, Oliver, Stargell, Sanguillen, Dave Cash, Dave Parker, John Candelaria, Bill Madlock----etc. Now, we're supposed to be excited and patting everyone on the back when we're within 5 or 6 games of .500 in June. And as always, we unoad bonafide Major Leaguers for "prospects" and a few fans claim it's so smart, so intelligent to be building for the future, while the rest of us ask what future it is they're referring to---cause we've seen this cycle over and over since the early 1990s. Nutting and McClatchy never wanted to win---they want to make money by waiting for sportsflation to make the team worth more.

Brian you are correct.........in the starting rotation and if they win a game traded for some junior high prospects.

It's a good thing they cant speak or read English, or they most likely would have run away screaming. It amazes me that it took 17 years to completely dismantle a once very proud and well run organization. You gotta hand it to the West by God Virginian Carpet bagger.

Way to go Buccos. Should be a starting rotation for this weekend