The Neal Huntington era in Pittsburgh Pirates baseball is personified by several key principles.
Lock up talent early, or at least try to.
Exploit market inefficiencies.
Steadily build the farm system.
All of those are basic tenets of The Huntington Way, but perhaps no operating principle has been as on-display as the one that pertains to the pitcher designated to close out games.
Next Man Up.
Sure, the terminology may be better known to most Pittsburgh sports fans as originating from Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, but it’s Huntington who has shown to be the true disciple of the methodology.