Hurdle names his starters for the first two games of the NLDS:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/hurdle-already-shaping-pirates-playoff-162119607--mlb.html

APIAD wrote:

Heard on the mlbn yesterday that the cards dont play a team with a winning record the rest of the season after this series.   The pirates might want to wait before setting there game one starter. 

They go to Pissburgh and Cincinnazi after the current series with TTTIB and then have the Pirates at home.
Starting on Sept. 9, their remaining series are at home against Milwaukee, home against Seattle, at Colorado, at Milwaukee, home against Warshington and home against the team that won't win a World Series for the 105th consecutive season.
 

don.rob11 wrote:

Pirates acquire Byrd/Buck from Mets for minor league 2b and ptbl ..
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/08/pirates-acquire-marlon-byrd-and-john-buck.html?utm_source=twitterfeed

Buck is an upgrade from their current backup catcher, but so what?
Byrd gives them a little more pop than Tabata, who ironically has had a pretty good August (.308/.375/.867) ... at least better than the miserable month Jay Bruce (.210/.267/.655) is having. I guess all that MVP talk was distracting.
 

artie_fufkin wrote:

don.rob11 wrote:

Pirates acquire Byrd/Buck from Mets for minor league 2b and ptbl ..
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/08/pirates-acquire-marlon-byrd-and-john-buck.html?utm_source=twitterfeed

Buck is an upgrade from their current backup catcher, but so what?
Byrd gives them a little more pop than Tabata, who ironically has had a pretty good August (.308/.375/.867) ... at least better than the miserable month Jay Bruce (.210/.267/.655) is having. I guess all that MVP talk was distracting.
 

Byrd gives them a replacement for Starling Marte who is on the DL.

don.rob11 wrote:

Tonight was Marlon Byrd give away t-shirt night . Wonder what they do with 'em.....

By Monday there will be several third world villages sporting nice, new Marlon Byrd t-shirts. 

4:41pm: Apparently not content to stand pat after acquiring Marlon Byrd and John Buck from the Mets earlier today, Pirates GM Neal Huntington is now eyeing Twins first baseman Justin Morneau once again, according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. He adds that the Yankees, another team once linked to Morneau, aren't currently pursuing the Canadian slugger.

The Bucs were said to have interest in Morneau prior to the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, but a dreadful slump from the 2006 AL MVP coupled with a hefty amount of money remaining on his $14MM salary deterred interested parties from striking a deal. Now, Morneau is owed roughly $2.6MM through season's end and has seen his bat come back to life in August, hitting .270/.318/.550 with seven homers and seven doubles on the month.-----MLB Trade Rumors

don.rob11 wrote:

Pirates GM Neal Huntington is now eyeing Twins first baseman Justin Morneau once again... pursuing the Canadian slugger.
----MLB Trade Rumors

 
Anything to try luring a few more Penguins fans into PNC in September.