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community.post-gazette.com - 12/17/2008

Pirates Q&A: Not playing the market

— community.post-gazette.com — By Dejan Kovacevic | 11 a.m. Wednesday Click here to submit question. We have Qs ... __________... Q: Is it smart for the Pirates to be avoiding free agents and targeting prospects? In honor of 'Moneyball' and its premise that teams like the A's (and ... (more) Pirates Q&A: Not playing the market

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bucsdugout.com - 12/17/2008

In Defense of the Jason Bay Trade

— bucsdugout.com — Jason Bay after the trade (photo: Keith Allison ) There's a really interesting and somewhat maddening discussion... in the Post-Gazette's Q+A today : Q: Is it smart for the Pirates to be avoiding free agents and targeting prospects? In honor ... (more) In Defense of the Jason Bay Trade

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bugsandcranks.com - 12/16/2008

Pirates Sign Iraqi Shoe Thrower

— bugsandcranks.com — The Pirates, who have emphasized a need to find talent via every available outlet, have again gone... where no team has gone before. Late Monday night, the Pirates came to terms with Iraqi pitcher Muntadhar al-Zaidi. The 28-year-old al-Zaidi will ... (more) Pirates Sign Iraqi Shoe Thrower

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Jack Wilson Says a Bunch of Incoherent Stuff
Bucs Dugout — I feel bad for him. "I always said I wanted to honor my contract and, in the negotiations we had for that, the organization [read: Dave Littlefield] had talked about building a team," Wilson said. "I wanted to make sure that, if I was giving up a couple years of free agency, I had a chance of competing. That's one of the main things that went into my signing that piece of paper, that we'd compete. Since I signed that, that hasn't happened. We've lost key players who were going to be part of that team they were talking ...

Wilson: Pirates need ‘more players’ to compete
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — Wilson: Pirates need ‘more players’ to compete Travis: Alamoians need ‘more soldiers’ to compete. Jack Wilson, sounding convinced he will return as the Pirates’ shortstop next year, yesterday urged management to bolster the 2009 roster and heed its own call for accountability. “The only thing I wish we could do was compete,” he said in an extensive phone interview from his home in California. “I wish we could go out and get some more players to make our team competitive. And, you know, now that this whole trade thing has probably blown over, that’s going to be my new focus on ...

Getting Duped
Blue Collar Baseball — ... about the effort of Pirates ownership to "compete." Rightly so. I definitely think that Jack was told by Pirates ownership that they would try to build a team that could compete at some point over his tenure in Pittsburgh - that certainly hasn't happened. I'll direct you to a ...

The Pirates and free agency
Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? — From today's PG, we've got this quote (and more) from Jack Wilson: "The only thing I wish we could do was compete," he said in an extensive phone interview from his home in California. "I wish we could go out and get some more players to make our team competitive. And, you know, now that this whole trade thing has probably blown over, that's going to be my new focus on the Internet: Instead of looking for my name and where I might go, hopefully, we might get some players. Because we need them." This point by Wilson goes hand-in-hand with the raising ...

Give Neal Huntington a break
Raise the Jolly Roger — ... that] keeping Bay and adding on would be “an attempt to preserve something that wasn’t really there.” Indeed, the Pirates were not even really close to contending even with the stellar offense of early 2008. We had no pitching, horrible defense, and the great offense was due to breakout seasons from a couple of guys.  We were much further away than being simply a pitcher away, no matter who that pitcher is. All that seems to make sense, right? [Jack Wilson doesn't seem to think so]: “I always said I wanted to honor my ...