Buried in yesterday's election news, Bob Nutting made an appearance yesterday afternoon to give a vote of semi-confidence to Neal Huntington and his front office for 2013, basically saying that while he was upset by the collapse that he thinks that controversial military-style training needs to be toned down, that he thinks the front office deserves another year to build on the runs to almost-contention in 2011 and 2012.
This is not surprising. This is not really news, either. The World Series ended ten days ago. The general manager meetings are starting today and the winter meetings are in the offing. If Neal Huntington was going to be fired, it was going to be either during the season or at the very end of it to give the Pirates enough time to prepare for the off-season. If Kyle Stark was going to be fired for military-style training during fall instructionals, it would've probably been before fall instructionals actually took place this year. Letting Stark run the in...
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Gregory Polanco,
Starling Marte,
Frank Coonelly,
Andrew McCutchen,
Scott Boras,
Bud Selig
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TEAMS: Pittsburgh Pirates
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