Pirates Fire Jim Tracy

[Jake]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07278/823179-100.stm

 

I don't think anyone's surprised by this.

 

He lost me last year. There was one game early in the year when Jeremy Burnitz didn't run out a groud ball, and Tracy defended him.

 

Of course there's this years Marty McCleary relife pitching incident.

 

Ultimately, though, he's had bad teams for his two years here. No one could win with the rosters he had to manage.

[SouthSideRyan]

I was a big fan of Tracy in his early years in LA. He lost me a long time ago.

[Jake]

Major House cleaning.

 

Briam Graham, who served as Interim GM after Littlefield was fired was also let go, as was Ed Creech, director of scouting \:D/ , and John Murcurio, head of baseball operations. (Never heard of Murcurio).

 

I'm happy to see Creech go - our drafts are the stuff of legends, unfortunately the wrong ones.

 

Graham I'm surprised to see get canned for two reasons: He & Huntington have a history from Cleveland, and Nutting spoke highly of him when Littlefield was fired.

[SouthSideRyan]

Ed Creech is the Dave Littlefield of scouting directors. Huntington could be a bad GM, and he could bring in Ed Lynch as scouting director, and it'd probably be an improvement.