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Everyone in Pittsburgh has a favorite "Why Dave Littlefield should be fired" story. There's tons of them. I mean, the guy's been on the job since mid-2001 and he's managed to not improve the Pirates at all since he took the helm. My favorite Littlefield story? The one chronicled in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today, the one about how he turned down Ryan Howard in a trade for Kris Benson in the summer of 2004 because the Pirates already had Brad Eldred. Yeah, you read that right. The Pirates, who have been searching for a left-handed power bat since PNC Park and its 320 foot right field porch opened in 2001, turned down a trade for the left-handed first baseman that has thumped 91 homers in his last 250 or so games. Eldred? He's got fourteen bombs in his career.
This is why speculation that Littlefield will be canned after the season is so rampant, because it's insane that he's still employed. Instead of pulling in Howard as a return for Benson, he pulled off a three way traded that netted him Ty Wigginton (who the Pirates waived after the 2005 season), and Jose Bautista (a player the Pirates had in their own organization but lost when Littlefield failed to protect him in the Rule 5 draft) while also giving up Jeff Keppinger, who's killing the ball in Cincinnati right now. Howard is, of course, the reigning NL MVP.
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