Former Pirates general manager Neal Huntington has landed his first job back in baseball since his firing in October, 2019, joining the Cleveland Guardians’ front office as a special assistant to baseball projects.
This news comes via a report from Britt Ghiroli.
Huntington originally came to the Pirates from Cleveland, where he rose from assistant director of minor league operations to assistant general manager and special assistant to the general manager over a decade.
Huntington was hired in November of 2007 and spent a dozen seasons as the Pirates’ general manager. That included building a group that snapped a 20-year losing season streak and made three straight postseason appearances from 2013-2015, though they did not win the National League Central or a playoff series during that time.