Next Moves For NL Central Teams Are...

The Hot Stove season is past the halfway point, and all the clubs in the National League Central still have important offseason goals to accomplish before Spring Training. As has been the case several times in recent years, the division title could very well be another wide-open race to the end.

St. Louis Official Site

Jody Davis Survived Medical Emergency With Cardinals

Jody Davis was with the Cardinals when he experienced a life-threatening health crisis, recovered and got on a fast track to the major leagues.

RetroSimba

Chris Young Out As Phillies' Pitching Coach

The Phillies have told Chris Young that he will not return next season as pitching coach, sources told MLB.com. The team has not commented.

Philadelphia Official Site

Ray Searage Will Not Return As Pirates Pitching Coach

Adam Berry Twitter

Walk The Plank: Pirates' Pitching Inside Has Drawn Ire, Awareness From Division Rivals; Matt Carpenter, Mike Mayers Near Returns; Yairo Munoz Mans Center; Brett Cecil, Etc

Having cut his teeth and delivered a few bruises as a young starter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston righthander Gerrit Cole heard Cubs manager Joe Maddon’s furious criticism earlier this month about the Bucs’ “pitching philosophy,” which can be aggressively inside and sometimes up in the zone.

Post-Dispatch

Corey Dickerson Out Of Lineup With Sore Right Shoulder

Already dealt a handful of injuries before Opening Day, the Pirates reported to PNC Park on Wednesday with their starting left fielder sidelined.

Pittsburgh Official Site

Ray Searage Bullish On Young Pirates' Pitching Staff

Sitting inside a small room adjacent to the clubhouse at LECOM Park on Wednesday afternoon, Ray Searage could not hide his excitement.

Pittsburgh Official Site

Pirates Extended Ray Searage Through 2019 Season

General manager Neal Huntington said before the Pirates' final game of the season that manager Clint Hurdle's entire coaching staff would return next season, and the club made it official on Thursday.

Pittsburgh Official Site

Ray Searage Excited To Work With Young Pirates

Scanning the list of pitchers who will be stretched out to start in Spring Training, one set of numbers stood out to Pirates pitching coach Ray Searage. Not their ERAs, not their Statcast™ spin rates, not even their ground-ball percentages.

Pittsburgh Official Site

Ray Searage Is Still The Pitcher Whisper

This season, a false narrative has formed among some in the Pirate fan base that Ray Searage was ridding Jim Benedict’s coattails in recent years. However, this is not the case.

Rum Bunter

Ranking The Five Best Landing Spots For Shelby Miller

Shelby Miller is in the midst of an unforgettable season, albeit for the wrong reasons. He entered Friday ranked 174th in ERA and 168th in strikeout-to-walk ratio among the 176 pitchers with more than 50 innings.

CBS Sports

Ray Searage On Gerrit Cole & The Tension Building In The NL Central

101 ESPN

The Matter With Michael Wacha (Maybe)

Around the beginning of the year, the Cardinals lost Adam Wainwright, and though they just welcomed him back to the active roster, there’s no time to build him up as a starter. Around the end of the year, the Cardinals lost Carlos Martinez, and while the hope is that there’s nothing seriously wrong with his shoulder, he won’t pitch again for a while.

Fangraphs

Clint Hurdle's Ship Not Derailed By Bad Hip

Figuring out a way to get Josh Harrison in the Pirates lineup? That's easy for manager Clint Hurdle.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Josh Kinney Knows His Odds

In his backyard, as a boy, Josh Kinney always pitched for the Pirates.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Ray Searage Says A.J. Burnett Likely To Retire

As Pittsburgh Pirates mini-camp continues in Bradenton, Fla., and we creep within a few weeks of the start of Spring Training, it’s only natural to start projecting the Bucs’ Opening Day roster.

City Of Champions Sports

Ray Searage To Receive Honorary Doctor Of Human Letters Degree At West Liberty University

Former West Liberty student Ray Searage will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at West Liberty University's fall commencement, beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday.

The Intelligencer

Bernie Bytes 7-8-11: NL Central Wide Open

The Pittsburgh Pirates are perhaps the best story of the first half. As MLB heads into the final weekend before the All-Star Game break, the Pirates (45-42) are in 3rd place in the NL Central, one game behind co-leaders Milwaukee and St. Louis.

Bernie's Five Minutes

The 70 First-Half Heroes In Baseball

26. Lance Berkman, Cardinals RF. Defying his age with 20 home runs, 58 RBIs, a .997 OPS (and upsetting Astros honk Milo Hamilton), though he's slowed bit since his blazing start.

Sports Illustrated

New Pirates Pitching Coach Ray Searage Making Changes

There's a new pitching coach running things this spring, and Ray Searage has already made some changes.

Searage is no stranger around Pirate City, having been in the organization for nine seasons. This, however, is the first year that he has arrived with the title of Major League pitching coach and with the responsibility of supervising all the pitching programs.

Pirates Official Site