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Most of the Pirates Are Uninterested in Winter Ball

The Pittsburgh Pirates are playing some terrible baseball right now. They've won just three games in September, just 12 games since Aug. 1, and are 20-50 since July 1. After emptying their roster in late July, their lineup has been composed mostly of players that only have an opportunity to play regularly in the majors...

Pirates Offer Extensions to Freddy Sanchez and Jack Wilson

Since taking over as Pirates general manager in the fall of 2007, Neal Huntington has been almost singularly focused on rebuilding the Pirates' ravaged farm system. This has necessitated trades of some of their best and most popular players, including Jason Bay, Nate McLouth, and Nyjer Morgan, which has seriously upset the...

Freddy Sanchez Could Be the Next Pirate Shipped Out of Pittsburgh

With two trades already under his belt, it's clear that Pirates' GM Neal Huntington is intent on setting the trade market this year rather than waiting for it to be set by someone else. With Nate McLouth and Nyjer Morgan already shipped elsewhere, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Dejan Kovacevic reported Thursday that the...

Futilitywatch '09: Trade Winds Blowing

Futilitywatch '09 is a our semi-regular update on the Pittsburgh Pirates and their march toward their record 17th consecutive losing season.How many teams in baseball history have traded 2/3rds of their starting outfields in consecutive years? The Pirates started 2008 with an offense-oriented outfield of Jason Bay, Nate...

History Brewing for Pirates

FanHouse continues its 2009 MLB Preview with a look at the Pittsburgh Pirates. For the better part of the last decade, the Pittsburgh Pirates aimlessly wandered through the wilderness of baseball with Kevin McClatchy and Dave Littlefield at the helm. Finally, they lost their jobs and Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington took...

NealHuntington News From the Web

05/28/12 Pittsburgh Pirates: 10 Signs the Buccos Are Getting... Source: Bleacher Report Neal Huntington has taken a lot of criticism since taking over for Dave Littlefield in 2007, and some of it is rightfully warranted.
05/21/12 Kovacevic: Will GM ever address PiratesÃ¢ hitting? Source: Trib p.m. - Greensburg PA TheyÃ¢ve got to be the only team in Major League Baseball that strikes out 15 times against a pitcher with a 6.29 ERA Ã¢ all swinging! Ã¢ and still somehow stays in the game.
05/15/12 Cook: Commend Huntington for pitching acquisitions Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette You want to blame Pirates general manager Neal Huntington for the team's offensive struggles?
05/14/12 Pirates notebook: No short-term fix for offense Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review General manager Neal Huntington addressed his teamÃ¢s struggling offense before the game, and said that any help they get is going to have to come from within Ã¢ at least for now.
05/14/12 Huntington: No outside help on offense for now Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette If the Pirates offense improves, it's going to do so with the players already on the roster.