Where Cherington is quick to credit Pirates mental strength and peak performances coaches Bernie Holliday, Hector Morales, Tyson Holt and Andy Bass for their work before his arrival, the challenge for Baker is taking the mental skills education and integrating it into baseball language.
Pirates players have credited Shelton and his staff for helping with that transition at the major league level, so the club is doing it at the ground level with its prospects. What Cherington wants is for the top prospects to be major league ready when they get called up. After all, the Pirates had the No. Kevin Gorman is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Kevin by email at kgorman triblive. Support Local Journalism and help us continue covering the stories that matter to you and your community.
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First and foremost: the idea that a modern professional sports team will deliberately lose games for what amounts to a lottery ticket is ludicrous, bordering on insane. Thirdly, the man responsible for your biggest complaints, namely the Andrew McCutcheon and Chris Archer trades, is Neal Huntington, who is long gone.
Yes, the Pirates were cursed with not one but two horrific GMs in a row—let us never forget the dumpster fire that was Dave Littlefield. Ben Cherington is not following in their footsteps. Yes, he had more money to play with on the Red Sox. However, his most significant move during his tenure with the Red Sox came in when he got the Dodgers to take on the bloated contracts of Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, and Adrian Gonzalez in exchange for the MLB equivalent of next to nothing.
It was only the second time in MLB history that a team that finished last in its division one year won it all the next year; the first to do it was the Twins. As it turned out, that history came into play quite a bit during his time on the Yankees and ended his playing days before his contract ran out.
No move that Cherington has made as Bucs GM has surprised me so far. As far as paying players to stay, the first test will be Bryan Reynolds, eligible for arbitration next year.
If Cherington wants to build the Pirates into a longtime contender, Reynolds will be the lynchpin to keep the Bucs train together.
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