PITTSBURGH -- Pirates manager Clint Hurdle isn't going to try to tell anyone how they should react to his club trading Andrew McCutchen and Gerrit Cole -- not even Pirates fans or players.
"Fans need to feel what they need to feel," Hurdle said Friday on MLB Network Radio. "What I am going to tell them is how excited I am to manage this club moving forward. It's an opportunity for us to start a new era of Pirates baseball."
Hurdle said Pirates management sat down to plot their course for the offseason back in October.