It’s the story that won’t die . . . .
Josh Harrison, newly arrived in camp, echoed earlier comments by David Freese and Gerrit Cole about the Pirates’ culture. And those comments are getting increasingly pointed, and increasingly focused on the front office. In Harrison’s case, it’s pretty simple to summarize: He wants to play on a team that’s trying to win and he’s not seeing the signals from the Pirates’ front office that winning is their priority.
Harrison specifically mentioned having discussed the team’s direction with GM Neal Huntington and made it clear he did not emerge satisfied:
At the end of the day there wasn’t anything said or done that was like, aw man, I can breathe easy.