Huntington fills out front-office staff

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Pirates.com: Huntington fills out front-office staff
Published 11/7/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Pirates.com: Huntington fills out front-office staff These were the crucial acquisitions for the organization this off-season. At first glance it looks like Huntington wanted to go young. Director of Player Development: Kyle Stark (29), Cleveland Director of Scouting: Greg Smith (41), Detroit Director of Baseball Operations: Bryan Minniti (27), Pittsburgh ...

Pirates finally round out their front office staff
Published 11/7/2007 by Cory Humes at Pittsburgh Lumber Co.
Again, from the mothership: [General manager Neal] Huntington introduced Greg Smith as the Pirates’ new scouting director, Kyle Stark as the team’s next director of player development and Bryan Minniti as the director of baseball operation. … Smith most recently served as a scout in the Tigers’ organization. He’s the new (and hopefully improved) Ed Creech. Smith was Detroit’s scouting director between 1997 and 2004, but is listed on the Tigers’ website now as a “major league scout.” That smells something like Huntington’s step backwards from assistant general manager to assistant to ...

Huntington keeps hiring
Published 11/8/2007 by Pat at Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
I said that I thought that the guys Doogie hired to fill out his front office would be more important than Russell. Today he hired a scouting director, a director of player development, and a director of baseball operations. These are the men that will shape the future of the Pirates. So who are they? Kyle Stark, director of player development: He's coming from an assistant farm director position in Cleveland. He's 29, I think he's got a law degree, and three years ago he was a pitching coach for St. Bonaventure. So he's really young, which means he's either incredibly motivated or just incredibly unqualified for his job. I will choose to believe the first one until I have reason ...