The Pirates are disintegrating as the season ends. Generically speaking that sort of thing is not necessarily on the GM. Usually that sort of thing gets a manager fired, whereas long-term ineptitude and a crappy roster get the GM fired. ?But two data points suggest that Pirates GM Neal Huntington is on the outs.
First: That story about the SEAL training stuff from last week. ?That reflects poorly on Huntington and his assistant Kyle Stark, and given that the story itself makes the point that neither the team owner or team president knew about the program suggests that, perhaps, someone close to them was putting that story out there.
Second: Over the weekend Huntington defended himself and the job he?s done, but made a conspicuous plea for the jobs of his underlings:
?If [owner]?Bob?[Nutting] or [team president]?Frank?[Coonelly] decide to make a change and they bring in a new general manager, that?s their call,? Huntington said. ?I sure hope they don?t because I believe in the people we?re working with. I believe in what we?re doing, and I believe in how we?re doing it.?
Kind of gives one the vibe of a captain going down with the ship. Which has its own nobility to it, of course. But it does sorta seem like Huntington thinks he?s on the way out.
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