NEAL HUNTINGTON RUMORS
Pirates 2012 Mock Draft
Neal Huntington seems pretty sold on the notion that it’s impossible to trade for offensive help before the All-Star Break. So maybe that means he’s going to look for it in Monday’s MLB First-Year Player Draft. Not only does MLB have the longest named entry draft, they also have about five drafts a year with about 100 rounds in them. It’s basically impossible...
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Curious thoughts about the Pittsburgh Pirates "Run for 81."
Phoenix - Burning the midnight oil on a mission to provide Pittsburgh Pirates General Manager Bad Deal Neal Huntington some next level knowledge for his run for 81 (wins) this year, I came across a few burning questions that peaked my curiosity about the 2012 Pittsburgh Pirates and, of course, other random topics that have nothing to do with baseball.
First, the random topics...
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16 hours ago
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16 hours ago
Trading for Youkilis would solve the Pirates’ problems
Neal Huntington was quick to try and put a stop to Pirates’ fans demand for a trade to get some offense brought to PNC Park. Huntington said that the Buccos weren’t going to make a trade right now strictly because teams don’t make trades in May. ********. Like Dejan Kovacevik said on his blog this morning, “Would anyone believe Neal Huntington if he also...
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9 days ago
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9 days ago
Are the Pirates Really Just One Bat Away?
The Pirates are sitting at 17-20 after two straight losses in which their pitching gave up more than five runs and their offense wasn't up to the challenge. We're all curious as to where the Pirates could go this year if they could add another bat to the lineup to help the offense. The fact is that the Pirates aren't going to be able to find a bat at this point in the...
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14 days ago
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14 days ago
Oh, you want Huntington to get offensive help? Too bad, there is none
We already know the Neal Huntington doesn’t plan on making any blockbuster trades any time soon to give the worst offense in Major League Baseball a kick in the ass. The season’s a month old, nobody wants to get rid of any assets yet…except Pirates fans.
Not to call Clint Barmes or Rod Barajas assets just yet but Bucco fans can’t wait to get rid of them...
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16 days ago
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16 days ago
3 Things Still On Huntington’s To-Do List
Back in October, there was doom and gloom about the 2011 offseason from not only fans, but also writers that follow the Pirates closely. At the time, I consistently said that it was OCTOBER and you can’t write the story for the upcoming offseason when it hasn’t…ya know….started.
At the time, there was widespread consternation about the impending decline...
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February 25, 2012
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February 25, 2012
Pittsburgh Pirates: GM Huntington’s Offseason “Portfolio”
Pirates' Offseason Explained
Here’s a hilarious GM Neal Huntington quote pointed out to me by a friend, from an interview during the Winter Meetings:
“We could have invested everything in one big blue-chip stock, or we could have invested it in a portfolio,” general manager Neal Huntington said. “We decided to take the portfolio approach. Again, we wanted...
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January 23, 2012
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January 23, 2012
Interview from Piratefest – Neal Huntington and Frank Coonelly
Huntington's picture from 2011 -- we didn't get a fresh one this year
As mentioned in a previous post, Pirates Prospects and some other blogs were invited backstage to interview Pirate players and front office guys. Here’s the summary of the interviews with Neal Huntington and Frank Coonelly. Check out the videos done by Tom Smith of Rumbunter, as well.
Frank Coonelly...
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December 17, 2011
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December 17, 2011
Pittsburgh Pirates: Huntington has his Derek Bell Moment
Instead of “Tebowing”, where one quickly kneels and prays in public, Pirates’ fans should coin “Huntingtoning”, where one suddenly gets down on all-fours in public, and randomly throws all the money from their pockets.
In December, 2000, then GM Cam Bonifay signed OF Derek Bell to a 2-year, $9.75MM contract, which quickly became his most harshly-panned...
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November 20, 2011
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November 20, 2011
Pittsburgh Pirates: Top 5 Negatives from the 2011 Season
Read my review on the Top 5 Positives here.
#5 The run of contention until early August
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In the end, the 2011 Pirates weren’t much better than any of the previous 18 teams before them. But they’ll be treated like they were during the offseason, and only minimal improvements will be made to a club that could be one of the worst in the league...
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November 03, 2011
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November 03, 2011
THE PIRATES HOT 25
