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The Pittsburgh Pirates impressed Rod Barajas with an aggressive pitch in free agency, selling the veteran catcher on the team's promising future and the role he could play in helping them be successful.
Manager Clint Hurdle envisions the 36-year-old having a positive inf...

A.J. Burnett was happy to escape from New York.
"It was fun the first couple of years. Then it got like, I'm never going to get out of this funk," he said Monday, a day after the Yankees dealt him to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a pair of low-level prospects.
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James McDonald wheeled his luggage across the clubhouse at Pirate City and immediately began showing off a fishing rod.
A day before Pittsburgh's first workout for pitchers and catchers, McDonald and his teammates were in a relaxed mood Saturday, but there was also a fee...

Pittsburgh Pirates president Frank Coonelly borrows an analogy from manager Clint Hurdle when talking about the way the long-struggling franchise is perceived by the best players in baseball.
"We used to not be the prettiest girl at the dance," Coonelly said wi...

Pittsburgh Pirates president Frank Coonelly believes his club can take another step toward contending this season, and not just because the rest of the NL Central appears to have taken a step back.
While the top teams in the division underwent major overhauls on the fiel...

Outfielder Garrett Jones has lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in salary arbitration.
Jones was awarded the team's offer a $2.25 million salary this year by a three-person panel on Thursday rather than his request of $2.5 million. Arbitrators Margaret Brogan, Dan Brent and ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers aren't ready to part ways with Hines Ward just yet.
General manager Kevin Colbert said Monday the team has had "internal discussions" on what to do with the franchise's all-time leading receiver, but no decision has been made.
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Steelers' wide receiver Hines Ward wants to retire with the Pittsburgh Steelers, offering to restructure his contract to do it.
Ward posted on his Facebook page Saturday that he's already told the Steelers he's willing to work with them on altering his deal so he can rem...

Throughout the 16 minutes that followed him glowingly introducing former Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley as his new offensive coordinator, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin stood proudly in the corner of the second-floor media room at the team's facility.
Honestl...

The Steelers have named Todd Haley their new offensive coordinator.
Haley, 45, will replace Bruce Arians, now with the Indianapolis Colts, and will inherit an offense that scored 325 points last season en route to finishing 12-4.
Haley was fired by Kansas ...