Walk Toward The Light: Your 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates

Like 2008's Nail in the Coffin series, 2009's Walk Toward The Light aims to memorialize the eliminated teams that are gone and will likely be forgotten.Pittsburgh PiratesCurrent record: 55-87 Season highlight: It's been awhile since we've put "emerging star" and "Pirates" into the same sentence, but Andrew McCutchen's(notes) rookie campaign finally gave us a reason to make that connection. The 22-year-old center fielder was called up from Triple-A at the beginning of June and quickly worked his way into the NL ROY discussion. His exciting play, huge potential and youth (read: cheap) means that Pittsburgh may have found a face of the franchise that not even the Pirates' front office can trade away. Season lowlight: The Pirates lost 4-2 to the Cubs on Sept. 7, ensuring that Pittsburgh wouldn't go three-for-three in major sports championships in 2009. Oh, and they also set some sort of historical mark for losing campaigns. Seventeen seas...