A little under a week ago, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Jason Mackey reported that two “familiar” candidates had emerged in the Pirates’ hunt for a new general manager. Current interim GM Kevan Graves, a Pirates employee since 2008, and Ben Cherington, former Red Sox general manager and World Series winner both bring relative youth (at ages 38 and 45 respectively), but will either of these two candidates provide a much-needed, drastically new direction for this organization in their baseball operations department?
My gut says no.
Graves is a young, up and coming assistant GM who will probably be hired by a major league ball club as their GM sooner rather than later.