Coonelly, Huntington: Pirates seek rich, deep draft

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The draft
Published 5/26/2008 by Pat (noreply@blogger.com) at Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
There's a huge Q&A on the PG today with Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington about the upcoming draft and it's pretty enlightening. You should really read the whole thing, but here are some key excerpts: ...

Coonelly, Huntington on the Draft
Published 5/26/2008 by Charlie at Bucs Dugout
I'm a little bit sick of writing postmortems on the Littlefield drafts and speculating about how the new management's might be different, so I won't comment here except to say that the new guys are saying the right things.

Post-Gazette: Coonelly, Huntington: Pirates seek rich, deep draft
Published 5/27/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Post-Gazette: Coonelly, Huntington: Pirates seek rich, deep draft “President, GM address questions about No. 2 pick, money matters, and what happened with Wieters” Q: Obviously, neither of you was here when the Pirates bypassed Matt Wieters last summer. But I also know that both of you have done due diligence on what came before, just as I know you have scouts still on your staff who were involved. What is the best way, based on the information you have, to explain what happened? COONELLY: Let me start by saying I don’t think it’s very productive to engage in that. But my diligence has led me to believe that, one, the scouts we’ve ...

Pirates’ draft blowout
Published 6/7/2008 by Adam Wagner at Be Like Tike
... for more about Wilson. He sounds like he could be something, and, more importantly, someone special. Coonelly was interviewed by Stan Savran on FSN prior to the game, revealing that the Pirates plan to sign 25-30 of their picks, a number that Huntington had placed as low as 20 as little as a month or so ago. For Coonelly to say that clearly indicates that he is excited about the talent in this draft, which could be one of the deepest for the Pirates since the final Mickey White draft. If these prospects all come into the system, the Pirates will no longer have one of the ...

Pirates Sign Jordy Mercer, Chase D'Arnaud
Published 6/17/2008 by Charlie at Bucs Dugout
... The Pirates have now signed 24 picks, which is close to the number of picks Frank Coonelly and Neal Huntington suggested they might sign. Obviously, a lot of top picks haven't signed yet and many of the ones who have were very low picks, and it's only a couple weeks after the draft, so we can only hope the Pirates have had an easier time signing some of these guys than they imagined and that they're going to end up signing far more than 25. ...