Vibes are high at Pittsburgh Pirates spring training in Bradenton, Florida. Between their talented pitching staff, rising stars and All-Star newcomers, the Pirates have a team that\u2019s built to win in 2026 and beyond.<\/p>\n
The biggest offseason change for Pittsburgh was its lineup, which added former All-Stars Brandon Lowe, Marcell Ozuna and Ryan O\u2019Hearn. It also has Konnor Griffin and Jhostynxon Garcia, both of whom are NL Rookie of the Year candidates<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Accordingly, the Pirates\u2019 offense looks far more dangerous<\/a> this season after ranking last in runs, home runs, OPS and other categories last year. There\u2019s power, speed, balance and depth.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we have a really good lineup. If you look around the league, I think ours stacks right up there,\u201d Bryan Reynolds told MLB.com\u2019s Jason Mackey<\/a>. \u201cWe have talent. We have fast guys. We have guys who can hit homers. We have guys who can get on base. I think it\u2019s going to be a good offensive year.\u201d<\/p>\n Reynolds isn\u2019t the only one who thinks so<\/a>. FanGraphs projects Pittsburgh to average 4.44 runs per game this season, up from 3.60 runs per game last year.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a really good mix of different guys,\u201d manager Don Kelly said. \u201cJust a lot of different options there with who we added, who we\u2019re bringing back.\u201d<\/p>\n The Pirates should at least be average offensively this year, with the potential to be more than that if a few things break right for them. In other words, their pitchers shouldn\u2019t have to worry too much about run support anymore.<\/p>\n More Pirates: All-Star Slugger Reveals Early Impressions Of First Pirates Spring Training<\/a><\/p>\n The post Pirates Optimistic About Overhauled Lineup\u2019s Potential In 2026<\/a> appeared first on SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vibes are high at Pittsburgh Pirates spring training in Bradenton, Florida. Between their talented pitching staff, rising stars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,35921,1751,5343,6452,182,21817,19257,9545,78,4,10,776,64,4297,626],"class_list":["post-609911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-bradenton","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-don-kelly","tag-florida","tag-jason-mackey","tag-jhostynxon-garcia","tag-konnor-griffin","tag-marcell-ozuna","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-ryan-ohearn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116182827924536950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}