Coonelly: Maybe We Won't Draft the Best Player

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Shocking: Frank Coonelly may be a snake
Published 3/6/2008 by Pat at Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
To this point in his tenure, the Pirate employee that Frank Coonelly most reminds me of (in a purely superficial manner) is Dave Littlefield. They're both brash, smooth talking guys that could sell you volcano insurance, if they so desired. Because of just about everyone's description of Coonelly as really, really freaking smart (I'm paraphrasing), I was willing to let that go in the hopes that he knew what he was doing and had a plan to turn the Pirates around. He's said all the right things and he's got a pretty intimate knowledge of how baseball works given his job as labor counsel. I'm now seriously worried, because Charlie ...