With 23 regular season games left on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2025 schedule, management still has time to do the right thing. The club’s rookie manager Don Kelly has earned a contract extension for 2026.
Forget that Pittsburgh is in the National League Central basement at 62–77. Disregard that the Pirates are 23 games behind the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers. Ignore those “Sell the team, Bob” chants heard early and often at PNC Park directed at Pirates’ chairman of the board Bob Nutting during home games. Erase all the negativity surrounding baseball in Pittsburgh. There is hope on the horizon in Western Pennsylvania.
