North Shore Nine: A Pittsburgh Pirates Podcast

Joining us tonight is former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher and current SportsNet Pittsburgh TV analyst Steven Brault. With this year being Steven's first year on the broadcast we discuss what his first year was like & talk a bit of Bucco Baseball.

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Tonight is the night MLB awards the winner of the National League Rookie Of The Year. Is it Paul Skenes? Will it be Jackson Merrill instead? Joining us to discuss and react is Pittsburgh Pirates bullpen catcher and catching coach, Jordan Comadena.

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Baseball America is releasing their 2025 top 10 prospects for each organization and the Pirates have quite a but of movement happening for theirs. Let's take a look at it and discuss.

The date to protect players from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft and adding them to the 40-man roster is this Tuesday. We take a closer look now to see who may or may not make the list.

Lastly, tonight the National League Rookie of the Year award is being announced. Will it be Paul Skenes?

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Mike Tyson vs. Paul Logan. Pirates hired Matt Hague and Brent Strom as new hitting and assistant pitching coach. Paul Skenes 1/1 Topps Rookie Auto is out and the Pirates have made a sweet offer to get their hands on it. Who is going to debate and come out victorious in this week's The Point?

Show contestants this week: Alex Stumpf from mlb.com, Gary Morgan from steelcitypirates.com & Pirates Fan Forum, JC of the infamous @1992Pirates account, and our very own Tyler of NS9.

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Dave Parker was one of 8 players on the ballot nominated by the baseball Hall of Fame's classic era committee. They will be deciding if any of these players will get into the Hall of Fame this December 8th, in Dallas during the MLB Winter Meetings. Should Dave Parker finally make it?

We are joined tonight by the creator of JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score System) Jay Jaffe. He developed this system to measure a player's Hall of Fame worthiness. Tune in to find out what he thinks as Doug and Jim discuss this topic with him.

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The Pirates hired two key members of their 2025 coaching staff today. Former Pirates 3B Matt Hague will serve as the club's new Hitting Coach and longtime veteran pitching coach, Brent Strom has come on board as the Assistant Pitching Coach.

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NS9 JEOPARDY returns!! Three contestants from our Discord kick off this season of NS9 JEOPARDY to find out who the smartest Pirates fan is. Will it be Brett, Zach, or Kyle who wins?

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Its barely November but Steamer has already released their 2025 player projections. And, well, since the Pirates are still pretty quiet in the MLB offseason, let's take a look at them and have some fun looking into 2025 already. Also, we preview our show this wednesday about Dave Parker's Hall Of Fame bid as well as the possibility of Roki Sasaki

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Episode Three of Sicko Soundoff with Jim as your host this week. Jim is joined by OG, John, and The Hatman as they discuss various topics brought up by you, the viewers and listeners!

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The MLB GM Meetings are underway in San Antonio to really kick off the MLB Offseason. The legs to many deals over the offseason typically start at these meetings and you have also seen a few moves happen.

With that said, MLB Trade Rumors recently posted their top 50 Free Agents with Predictions. Let's look over what they're predicting while adding out two cents.

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