Link Roundup

by Charlie Wilmoth on Feb 7, 2006 3:04 PM EST in News

-The writer of the Rockies blog Bad Altitude is fascinated with bad teams, so he actually writes about the Pirates once in a while. Here he is on the Royals and Bucs:

...I think the Rockies as presently operated compare favorably to the Kansas City and Pittsburgh franchises. First, they're not spending tens of millions of dollars on replacement-level veterans who won't improve them any, and second, they play in a division lacking any obviously superior clubs. But there are many similarities.

Go read the rest.

-Here's a chat with Jason Bay.

-Weirdly, the Pirates managed to trade two Ivy Leaguers for Matt Herges: Princeton product Chris Young, and Jon Searles, who went to Penn between rookie ball seasons.

-Josh Fogg will decide on a team soon.

-The Pirates signed Yurendell DeCaster to a one-year deal for the league minimum.

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Funny, somebody (rotoworld?) opined the other day that, with Chuck LaMar gone, Allard Baird and Dan O'Dowd are the two worst GMs in MLB. Personally, I don't think O'Dowd is nearly as bad as DL. He's done a lot of bumbling, much of which seems to be the result of letting the altitude issue psych him out, but he's really tried to come to grips with it. DL has made no effort to come up with innovative solutions for the Pirates' problems. O'Dowd has also done a good job of building up the farm system, while DL inherited a good system that he's letting fall into ruin. I think O'Dowd showed he's at least capable of learning something by steering away from the approach of always taking pitchers in the first round of the draft.

by WTM on Feb 7, 2006 3:19 PM EST reply actions