Pirates' Joey Bart enjoying new team as Giants' former top prospect returns to San Francisco
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KEYT— By ERIC HE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When the San Francisco Giants cut Joey Bart in late March and began shopping for trades for their once-heralded top prospect, the catcher had an inkling about the Pittsburgh Pirates as a destination. He looked around at other teams’ rosters and wondered who might need catching
NBC Sports Chicago—Joey Bart, ex-Giants catcher, back in San Francisco, enjoying Pirates tenure – NBC Sports Bay Area & California. A few weeks after being traded by the Giants, former No. 2 overall draft pick Joey Bart is back in San Francisco and will face his old team for the first time Friday.
The Athletic—Joey Bart is off to a hot start with the Pirates. Should the Giants have regrets?. On Thursday, the official Twitter account of shared a video. There were 69 replies as of this writing, and a lot of them were from fans. Most of them weren’t very nice to the Giants’ front office. Joey Bart's hot start with the continues! He's 7-for-20 with 3 HR with Pittsburgh so far. — MLB (@MLB) ’s success with the has the potential to be a thing. It could be a thing for another couple days, another week or another month. It could be a thing for so long, that your kids’ kids will have...
McCovey Chronicles—Giants-Pirates Series Preview - April 2024: Giants take on a heap of former Giants. The older I get, the more my dying brain cements around the idea that fans invoke “small sample size” primarily when they don’t like the results. In a small sample size, Joey Bart is doing very nicely as a new member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who’ve come to play the San Francisco Giants this weekend in a 3-game series. He’s 7-for-23 with a trio of dingers, a double, and 8 RBI to go with 5 walks against just 8 strikeouts. That’s a triple slash of .304/.429/.739 in a measly 28 PA. Now, it’s not...