Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 03, 2007
Good Neal Huntington

Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke likes what he's hearing from new GM Neal Huntington:

We're in a unique situation. We have lost 90-plus games each of the past three years, but we have an interesting core of guys with two years left on their contracts. We have a good young pitching staff, and an outstanding young closer in Matt Capps. We feel that we have some talent here and have an opportunity to win, but we want to be in a position to be consistently competitive every year. What we don't want to do is win 82 games next year and then go backwards because we weren't thinking long-term. If you look at teams like Colorado, Milwaukee, Arizona, and Cleveland, it has been the depth of their systems--the players they've developed--that has helped them to take a step forward. It hasn't been players they've brought in from outside the organization. They've filled needs from within, and we need to get to where we can do the same thing. Improving our scouting and player development systems is a big part of what we're looking to do.

Yes, this sounds good, but Dave Littlefield often sounded good, too.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:01 PM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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The Pirates should blow it up and start over. They've got some tradeable commodities but for that group to win they'd have to supplement it heavily, and they don't have the resources either in prospects or money to do that. If they continue to try and win as they are constituted now they will probably just continue spinning their wheels. Littlefield was not good for that franchise.

Posted by: pageian at December 3, 2007 04:16 PM
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