((HT: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/Kovacevic))The Pirates have pulled back their contract extension offers to Jack Wilson and Freddy Sanchez ((pictured, thanks Chris Creamer/Flickr)) and though they remain open to new negotiations, there was no indication that any are forthcoming."That time has come and gone," general manager Neal Huntington said this afternoon of the offers' life span. "They feel like we're awfully light both in years and dollars. In our minds, the conversations are at a standstill."Neither of the player's agents, Page Odle for Wilson and Paul Cobbe for Sanchez, responded formally to initial offers, though Wilson's rejection was not believed to be nearly as emphatic as Sanchez's. Wilson's was for two years and $8 million, plus a club option for 2012. Sanchez's was for two years and $10 million, plus the voiding of his existing 2010 vesting option that could pay him $8 million.Huntington, who described the initial offers as...
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