Well, Tom Gorzelanny is still with the Pirates.  It’s been a while hasn’t it?  NH said when he called Gorzo up that ‘Tom was our only option.’  We have to wonder if he isn’t being used to motivate the starting staff.  Especially Ian Snell and Jeff Karstens.
NH alluded to the fact that

 
Donnie Veal pitched Friday night against the Astros for the first time in three weeks.  It will be a few weeks at least until we see  the big left hander in the black and gold as the Pirates have placed him on the disabled list.
Neil Huntington mentioned possible call-ups but wouldn’t give a name, he noted Bootcheck, [...]

Thanks to BrooksBaseball, just look how well Karstens mixed speeds last night in the graph below

A Journalism student at Duquesne University, David Golebiewski is a contributing writer for Rotographs, ESPN Inside Edge, Rotoworld and Driveline Mechanics. Duke has a regal start is a great article on the success Zach Duke has had this season and the [...]

So how about those trades last year?  Jeff Karstens and 3BAndy LaRoche stole the show last night.  LaRoche is in the top ten in Line Drive Percentage.  In other words, he is raking the ball with the best of them.  Even with that tweaky back. 
Karstens seems happy to have Tom Gorzelanny around, doesn’t he?  He [...]

The Houston Astros snapped their seven-game losing streak with a 6-1 victory at PNC Park tonight.  The Astros were led by rookie Edwin Maysonet, who went 4-for-4 and had four RBI with his first major league extra-base hits, two doubles and a homer.  The guy who hit 250 and change in the seven years he spent in the [...]