Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington is a lot of things, but dumb is not one of them.
No village idiot could be the architect of turning one of the great embarrassments of North American sports into a perennial playoff contender, which Huntington did in the early part of the 2010s.
While the Pirates GM has lost a step or 20 since the team’s last postseason appearance in 2015, he’s shown that the savvy mind that brought playoff baseball back to Pittsburgh is still in his skull, and, occasionally, comes out from behind the curtain to applause from Bucco fans.