This is a significant year for Derek Shelton for a couple of reasons. The Pittsburgh Pirates manager is in his fifth season, a relevant milestone in any profession.
Derek Shelton has made thousands of decisions during his five seasons as the Pittsburgh Pirates’ manager. Some have worked out. Others have backfired. Plenty have been second-guessed.
MIAMI -- So, I couldn't help but ask Derek Shelton, this is how it's gonna be? "Ha!" he'd reply with a slight smile and a slighter shake of the head. "I hope not." And then a laugh.
BRADENTON, Fla. – The Pittsburgh Pirates have no idea who the last two members of their starting rotation will be with opening day just two weeks and a day away.
It is kind of like that Christmas present underneath the tree that you can’t wait to open. That is how Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton and so many others feel about top pitching prospect Paul Skenes.
BRADENTON, Fla. – Derek Shelton has some perspective on Martin Perez. Shelton was the Minnesota Twins bench coach in 2019 before becoming the Pittsburgh Pirates manager the following season.
BRADENTON, Fla. -- Derek Shelton made one thing clear on more than one occasion this past week: David Bednar will be the Pirates’ closer this season. That might be an obvious declaration considering the success Bednar has experienced in his three years in Pittsburgh, which include a pair of All-Star appearances.
BRADENTON — The vibes were flying as high as the Florida sun as the Pittsburgh Pirates opened up their 2024 spring training at Pirate City on Wednesday.
Derek Shelton has played a good-natured back-and-forth game with the media in each of his first four seasons as the Pittsburgh Pirates manager. Someone will ask Shelton on the first day of spring training who will be the Pirates’ opening-day starter.
The Pittsburgh Pirates walked out of PNC Park last Oct. 1 feeling pretty good about themselves. The Pirates went 18-13 in their last 31 games, beating the playoff-bound Miami Marlins in the season finale.
GM Ben Cherington made it clear that the Pirates’ offseason work is far from over.
Ke’Bryan Hayes is always quick to say he does not put much emphasis on individual awards. However, the Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman admits he was ecstatic to win the National League Gold Glove at his position.
It is easy to understand why Jim Leyland and Derek Shelton have become kindred spirits. Both men got their first major-league manager jobs with the Pittsburgh Pirates after never playing in the big leagues.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Derek Shelton took his seat at his podium in the lobby of the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center and quickly stated the obvious in response to his first question about the rotation.
Derek Shelton has seen plenty of criticism during his four seasons as the Pirates’ manager. Much of that criticism is understandable, if not entirely warranted.
It was difficult to evaluate Derek Shelton during the first three years of his tenure as the Pittsburgh Pirates manager. Shelton’s first season was 2020 and Major League Baseball played a shortened 60-game schedule because of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the Pirates complete their end of season exit interviews, Derek Shelton had a couple points that he told his players. The team has to continue to get better.
Derek Shelton had hoped to avoid using Carmen Mlodzinski Friday so he didn't pitch two games in a row this deep into the season. Instead, the Pirates' manager had to go to his rookie right-hander in a Hail Mary shot to try to stop the Marlins, which ultimately didn't work in what would be a 4-3 loss at PNC Park Friday.
Cubs manager David Ross found himself in hot water after some comments he made about the Pirates, but cleaned them up as well as he could.
Shelton said on 93.7 The Fan that Andy Haines and Oscar Marin are likely to return next season. Two members of the current Pittsburgh Pirates’ coaching staff will likely return for the 2024 season, according to manager Derek Shelton.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As Derek Shelton and Oscar Marin were talking in Kauffman Stadium's visitor's dugout after the eighth inning, the manager's assumption was Johan Oviedo's evening was done.
Manager Derek Shelton, bench coach Don Kelly and pitching coach Oscar Marin were ejected by umpire Nic Lentz during the same at-bat for arguing ball/strike calls in the sixth inning, as the Pirates wrapped up Sunday's doubleheader against the Reds.
Does the manager need to go? The stagnation and regression of Bryan Reynolds, Ke’Bryan Hayes and Rodolfo Castro — just to name a few — almost certainly spell the end of Andy Haines’ tenure in Pittsburgh.
Perdomo’s retaliation wasn’t ‘old school’, it was reckless. Other than the Major League debut of shortstop Alika Williams, Tuesday night’s game would have been a rather uninteresting affair.
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