Where HAVEN'T You Gone, Jack Wilson? Efforts To Trade Pirates Shortstop Collapse

There's good news and bad news, Pirate fans. The good news is: Jack Wilson is still a Pittsburgh Pirate. The bad news is: Somehow, someway, by some freak act of God, Jack Wilson is still a Pittsburgh Pirate. Dating back to the 2007 non-waiver trade deadline, there was a near certainty that the Pittsburgh Pirates were going to trade their veteran shortstop. The Pirates and Detroit Tigers were engaged in talks that would send Wilson to Motown in exchange for then-prospect Jair Jurrjens, until those talks broke down and Jurrjens went to Atlanta in the Edgar Renteria trade. Over the offseason, there were reports that Wilson was headed to the Toronto Blue Jays, but Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi quickly denied such rumors, and the deal wasn't even close to going down. Fast-forward to 2008, with another trade deadline possibility of moving Wilson that ends up dead in the water; this time, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. That should be it, right? Wrong. As the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings ... (link)