Huntington: Read Between the Lines! I'm Trading for Prospects

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Blue Collar Baseball found this 7/17/2008 on www.bucsdugout.com [flag]
Thanks to Bucdaddy for catching  this : "We don't have the depth to get to the next step with the group we have right now," general manager Neal Huntington said. "How do we get that depth? We either trade prospects to get major league-caliber depth or we trade major leaguers to get the prospect depth necessary to take the next step." Unless that step leads off a cliff, I bet ... [link]

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Keeping the Fam-a-lee together
Published 7/17/2008 by Deaner (noreply@blogger.com) at Blue Collar Baseball
... of P-G says that it doesn't matter. This is the bitter reality of being a Pirates fan for the past decade plus but it seems even sadder this year. The 2008 have done something that hasn't happened for quite a while, they've bonded together... the young Pirates, with the help of veteran leadership, are learning how to win. Trading away players like Jason Bay and Jack Wilson (especially) would be a mistake in my opinion. They are tenured players who want to win wearing the black & gold. Their presence on the field at PNC Park and in the Pirates clubhouse is special and would ...

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