We will have recaps of the Pirates’ exhibition games this spring. These won’t be blow-by-blow accounts of the games. It doesn’t really matter at this point who got the key hit, etc. It’ll be more of a running summary of how the roster is shaping up.
The Pirates opened their spring schedule on Saturday afternoon with a 9-7 loss to Toronto.
The opening lineup featured maybe the chief position battle, with both Rodolfo Castro and Ji-Hwan Bae as the two main competitors for second base. Castro played third in this one and had the biggest blow on offense, a grand slam off former Pirate Zach Thompson.