Emma Lingan

The Pittsburgh Pirates will technically have two representatives at the 2026 MLB All-Star festivities. When the actual game begins Tuesday night, however, they might as well have none.

The 2026 MLB All-Star Game offered plenty of spectacle, but almost none of it came from the National League's offense.

Two of the Pittsburgh Pirates' top infield prospects are moving closer to the major leagues as the organization reshuffles its minor-league system following the All-Star break.

The Houston Astros believed they were acquiring a future rotation pillar when they landed Mike Burrows from the Pittsburgh Pirates during the offseason. Half a season later, they are instead confronting the same uncertainty that followed Burrows throughout his rise in Pittsburgh's organization.

The Pittsburgh Pirates should have greater clarity on the returns of Oneil Cruz and Spencer Horwitz shortly after the All-Star break, but neither player appears likely to rejoin the lineup immediately.

Paul Skenes has spent much of his young career hearing people speculate about when — not whether — he will eventually leave the Pittsburgh Pirates for a bigger-market team.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are taking another low-cost swing on a former top prospect who once appeared destined to become a major-league regular.

The Cincinnati Reds just provided the Pittsburgh Pirates with another reminder that small-market teams don't have to wait until their best young arms are approaching free agency to make a serious financial commitment.

The Pittsburgh Pirates' decision to reshuffle their starting rotation coming out of the All-Star break makes plenty of sense from a baseball standpoint. It also creates a perfectly timed new chapter in the increasingly tiresome Paul Skenes-to-the-Yankees saga.

Aaron Judge made everyone wait nearly seven weeks for a meaningful update on his fractured rib. What the New York Yankees finally delivered Friday did little to