As the temperature dropped well below 0 last night, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has finally got some news out there about the current players and the minor league prospects of the Pittsburgh Pirates. It seems like for several weeks now, all the stories coming out of the there has been about the Jason Bay and Xavier Nady trades, which is ancient history at this point. Bay was traded on July 31st, that’s almost half a year ago. Get the hell over it already. He was a good player and maybe the trade will end up a bad deal for the Pirates. There’s an equal chance it could be a good trade. Just need to wait and see what happens this season. See if Brandon Moss and Bryan Morris recover well from their surgeries.Of note is that 1st round hold out Pedro Alvarez might be able to start at AAA Indianapolis if management thinks he’s ready, it sounds like this kid is ready to be fast tracked like Barry Bonds was, of course Bonds wasn’t a great player in 1986. He didn’t hit for high average and he struck out a lot that first year, but he still had an OPS+ of 103 and had 16 home runs. But by 1988, you could see that he was gonna be a great player. So I think Alvarez could use a complete season in the minors, but if they think he’s ready, bring him to AAA and if he’s beating the crap out of everyone there, bring him to the Pirates.
In other news, the LaRoche brothers are supposedly getting ready for the season. I wonder if this means that Adam is working on his long looping swing that’ll lead to lots of stirke outs and balls hit right at the 2B the first half of the season. And Andy is probably just watching TV and eating about five Primanti sandwiches a day.
Unless they’re listening to Doug “Mint Cabbage” and actually working out. Now this is the definition of “manager in the making” Dougie is calling guys up and making sure they’re working out and keeping in shape during the off season and the best part is that he’s not currently a member of the Pirates. They haven’t even offered him a contract for the 2009 season yet. I wonder if last season he was calling A-Rod and Jeter telling them to work out some more…
I say if he’s doing that, resign him. He might not be good, but at least he cares.
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