Pittsburgh Pirates star Oneil Cruz is beginning the season as a center fielder for the first time. The 26-year-old started at shortstop last year, but after defensive struggles at the position, the ...

Cruz said that within a big family of baseball players, he's perhaps the only one who has played in the outfield. One of his kids, Oneil Jr., even offered to move to the outfield because his ...

The Pirates need a massive season from Oneil Cruz to finish the 2025 season with a winning record. We’ve all seen Cruz’s raw ...

Below are the outfield tiers for 2025 ... James Wood The Next-Best Things: Oneil Cruz, Teoscar Hernandez, (Brent Rooker), Michael Harris, Lawrence Butler, Anthony Santander, Luis Robert ...

Oneil Cruz smacks an RBI single into right field, scoring Ke'Bryan Hayes and tying the game at 1 in the bottom of the 1st inning ...

Pirates manager Derek Shelton said Wednesday that Cruz is being brought along slowly in spring training because he came to camp with an illness, Andrew Destin of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

Outlook: We finally got a healthy season from Cruz last year, and it was great. Yes, there are some swing-and-miss concerns with Cruz posting a 15.7% swinging strike rate and 66% contact rate overall.

Oneil Cruz's offensive potential never had many doubters. But his glaring mistakes as shortstop necessitated a move to center field. He finished the 2024 season with 23 games in the outfield.

19, 2024 9:43 p.m. | Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 9:43 p.m. The Pittsburgh Pirates are counting on Oneil Cruz’s speed for spectacular plays, and the converted center fielder provided a pair of them ...