Pirates appear to have found a new GM
by briandtw on Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 02:20pm
From the Beaver County Times (hat tip to rotoworld):
Multiple baseball sources told The Times on Thursday night that the Pirates are leaning heavily toward hiring Neal Huntington, a special assistant to the general manager with the Cleveland Indians.
Huntington is considered one of the bright young minds in the game but there had been no inkling before Thursday that he was even under consideration to join the Pirates.
Hey, maybe there’s some hope in Pittsburgh after all. Cleveland has done a great job achieving a competitive team in a similar market to Pittsburgh (small, cold, and out of the spotlight), and if Huntington brings the same combination of SABR and scouting that Shapiro seems to have established in Cleveland, Bucs fans may finally have the man that can make them relevant again.
Let the Jim Leyland rumors begin.