Pittsburgh Pirates

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Pittsburgh Piratesfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Pittsburgh Pirates has passed down, steadiest first. The SS room is their most stable — 13 holders across 119 years, a new one every 9.2 on average.

1. SS13 holders · 12 handoffs · 1900–2018 · one every 9.2y
   Honus Wagner1900–1917→Rabbit Maranville1921–1924→Glenn Wright1924–1928→Arky Vaughan1932–1941→Dick Groat1952–1962→Gene Alley1963–1973→Jose Pagan1965–1972→Frank Taveras1971–1979→Dale Berra1977–1984→Tim Foli1979–1985→Jay Bell1989–1996→Jack Wilson2001–2009→Jordy Mercer2012–2018
2. DH2 holders · 1 handoff · 2009–2025 · one every 8.5y
   Andrew McCutchen2009–2025→Josh Bell2016–2020
3. 3B26 holders · 25 handoffs · 1885–2026 · one every 5.5y
   Bill Kuehne1885–1889→Denny Lyons1893–1897→Bill McKechnie1907–1920→Bobby Byrne1909–1913→Doug Baird1915–1917→Pie Traynor1920–1937→Bill Brubaker1932–1940→Lee Handley1937–1946→Bob Elliott1939–1946→Pete Castiglione1947–1953→Gene Freese1955–1965→Don Hoak1959–1962→Bob Bailey1962–1966→Richie Hebner1968–1983→Bill Madlock1979–1985→Jim Morrison1982–1987→Bobby Bonilla1986–1991→Jeff King1989–1996→Joe Randa1997–2006→Aramis Ramirez1998–2015→Pedro Álvarez2010–2015→Jung Ho Kang2015–2019→Colin Moran2018–2021→Kevin Newman2018–2022→Ke'Bryan Hayes2020–2025→Nick Gonzales2023–2026
4. 1B24 holders · 23 handoffs · 1888–2013 · one every 5.3y
   Jake Beckley1888–1896→Kitty Bransfield1901–1904→Joe Nealon1906–1907→Dots Miller1909–1913→Ham Hyatt1909–1914→Doc Johnston1915–1916→Charlie Grimm1919–1924→Gus Suhr1930–1939→Elbie Fletcher1939–1947→Babe Dahlgren1944–1945→Dale Long1951–1957→Rocky Nelson1951–1961→Preston Ward1953–1956→Dick Stuart1958–1962→Donn Clendenon1961–1968→Bob Robertson1967–1976→John Milner1978–1982→Jason Thompson1981–1985→Sid Bream1985–1990→Kevin Young1992–2003→Mark Johnson1995–1997→Craig Wilson2001–2006→Adam LaRoche2007–2009→Garrett Jones2009–2013
5. 2B31 holders · 30 handoffs · 1885–2025 · one every 4.5y
   Pop Smith1885–1889→Lou Bierbauer1891–1896→Jimmy Williams1899–1900→Claude Ritchey1900–1906→Otto Knabe1905–1916→Ed Abbaticchio1907–1910→Jim Viox1912–1916→George Cutshaw1918–1921→Cotton Tierney1920–1923→Eddie Moore1923–1926→George Grantham1925–1931→Tony Piet1931–1933→Pep Young1933–1940→Frankie Gustine1939–1948→Pete Coscarart1942–1946→Danny Murtaugh1948–1951→Danny O'Connell1950–1953→Bill Mazeroski1956–1972→Dave Cash1969–1973→Rennie Stennett1971–1979→Phil Garner1977–1981→Johnny Ray1981–1987→José Lind1987–1992→Carlos García1990–1996→Tony Womack1993–1998→Warren Morris1999–2001→Jose Castillo2004–2007→Freddy Sanchez2004–2009→Neil Walker2009–2015→Josh Harrison2011–2018→Adam Frazier2016–2025
6. C30 holders · 29 handoffs · 1884–2019 · one every 4.5y
   George Miller1884–1893→Fred Carroll1885–1891→Jimmy Archer1904–1918→George Gibson1905–1916→Walter Schmidt1916–1924→Johnny Gooch1921–1928→Earl Smith1924–1928→Earl Grace1931–1935→Al Todd1936–1938→Ray Mueller1939–1950→Al Lopez1940–1946→Bill Salkeld1945–1947→Clyde McCullough1949–1952→Joe Garagiola1951–1953→Hank Foiles1956–1959→Smoky Burgess1959–1964→Jim Pagliaroni1963–1967→Jerry May1964–1970→Manny Sanguillen1967–1980→Carl Taylor1968–1971→Milt May1970–1984→Ed Ott1974–1980→Tony Peña Sr.1980–1986→Michael LaValliere1987–1993→Mackey Sasser1987–1995→Don Slaught1990–1995→Jason Kendall1996–2004→Ryan Doumit2005–2011→Russell Martin2013–2014→Francisco Cervelli2015–2019

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1882–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.