TORONTO – Esmerlyn Valdez paused for a second and smiled wide, eventually nodding his head with an enormous amount of pride.

This comes after the player parted ways with the Soweto giants via mutual consent as he was seeking game time. Cwinyane was promoted to the Pirates first-team during the 2020/21 campaign but failed to ...

CHICAGO -- On the walls of the Pirates' Dominican academy are the pictures of players who have risen through that facility to reach the majors. Sometimes, it's an All-Star, like Starling Marte.