Looks like I picked a good week to disappear into the Canadian wilderness (actually: the basement of a Mariott in downtown Montreal) for a few days. I’m still in Montreal, but I’m just hanging around waiting for my flight now. Anyways, it looks like the only thing happening on the managerial search front is nothing. Which Rob Biertempfel thinks could mean the Pirates are interested in Tony Pena or someone still coaching in the playoffs.
There’s just not much for a manager to do at this time of year, so it’s not really a huge deal for the Pirates to take their time, but if they do end up waiting for someone like Pena and the Yankees end up in the World Series, they could see more names (like Bo Porter, who the Marlins are supposedly very interested in) take jobs elsewhere. I guess you could infer that that means that the Pirates really like whoever it is that they’re waiting on, but that’s really just open speculation on my part.
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