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Major League Baseball (MLB) has a luxury tax called the "Competitive Balance Tax" (CBT). In place of a salary cap, the competitive balance tax regulates the total sum of money a given team can spend on their roster. Salary caps are common across professional sports leagues in the United States. Without these measures, teams would not be ...
The 2024 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the franchise's 143rd season overall, 138th season as a member of the National League, and 24th season at PNC Park. On July 5, the Pirates tied a record for home runs in a single game, with seven, in their 14–2 victory over the New York Mets. [ 1 ]
While the team's recent struggles compared to Pittsburgh's other two teams can be partly to blame (since the Pirates last World Series championship in 1979, the Steelers have won the Super Bowl 3 times (XIV, XL, and XLIII) and the Penguins the Stanley Cup five times in 1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, and 2017, including both in 2009), distractions off ...
The Pirates selected Skenes out of LSU with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 draft. After making his MLB debut in May, the El Toro High product went 11-3 with a 1.96 ERA in 23 starts.
On August 31, 2023, Fenway Sports Group announced they would be purchasing AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh on October 2, 2023, and rebranding it to SportsNet Pittsburgh. The move came after AT&T Sportsnet Pittsburgh parent company Warner Bros. Discovery Sports announced they were leaving the regional sports network business.
Longtime Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bob Veale, who helped the franchise win a World Series championship in 1971, died over the weekend at 89 years old.. The Pirates released a statement on Veale ...
The 2023 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the franchise's 142nd season overall, 137th season as a member of the National League, and 23rd season at PNC Park.The season was notable for the Pirates as it featured the return of Andrew McCutchen, who re-signed with the team after spending his first nine seasons with Pittsburgh before being traded following the 2017 season.
The Pittsburgh Pirates and All-Star pitcher Mitch Keller agreed to a five-year contract worth $77 million, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press on Thursday. The ...