Don Kelly discusses Oneil Cruz's stellar two-home run game, taking good at-bats as a team and more following the Pirates' ...

Don Kelly has had his eye on Genesis Cabrera for eight years. Finally, the two were united when Cabrera, a left-handed relief ...

Don Kelly talks about the strong performance from the Pirates' bullpen, the team's solid at-bats and more following the ...

As the Pittsburgh Pirates approach the halfway point of the season, it feels like they already have played two halves: one ...

Don Kelly took over as manager of the Pirates in May, and he has them playing better, even if he's not always around till the ...

Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch and Pittsburgh Pirates manager Don Kelly are friends (and former coworkers), but they're foes ...

It’s been more than a decade since Don Kelly played in Tigers blue. Now, he’s back in Detroit, but this time, in the opposing ...

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Kelly retired after the 2016 season and spent some time as a scout before going into coaching full-time with Houston in 2018. By the end of 2019, he was back home as the bench coach on Shelton's ...

Don Kelly, the Pittsburgh Pirates new manager, talks with reporters before a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Pittsburgh, Friday, May 9, 2025. Credit: AP/Gene J. Puskar ...

Don Kelly, the Pittsburgh Pirates new manager, talks with reporters before a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Pittsburgh, Friday, May 9, 2025. Gene J. Puskar/AP.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — There is an optimism to Don Kelly. A buoyancy. A lightness. How could there not be? The Pittsburgh-area native has spent the last two-plus decades authoring an unlikely success ...