On the same day the Red Sox introduced the new head of their baseball operations department, the Pirates dismissed theirs. On Monday, Pittsburgh announced they had fired Neal Huntington. This move is really just some classic Pirates stuff. That is not to say it is the wrong move, to be clear. As one of the most dysfunctional organizations not just in baseball but really in all of sports, they were in desperate need of cleaning house. That includes ownership, but Bob Nutting is not going anywhere. The strange part of this, though, is that they waited until now to do it.
MLB Roundup 10/29: Pirates fire Neal Huntington
