Pirates Notes: Shelton, Haddad, Cherington, Nutting, Valdez

9:30 a.m.: The 2025 season was the last year of Shelton’s contract as manager Noah Hiles from the reports on the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The conditions of the extension, Shelton signed in April 2023, were not published, although the 2023 season was the last year of the four -year contract that Shelton originally signed when it was hired as a skipper for the first time.

Hiles did not mention whether club options over 2025 were connected via Shelton’s deal. So it seems as if Shelton had been in a real, paralyzing duck situation this season. This only contributes to the fact that Shelton’s management office was on thin ice, and Hiles noticed that it became increasingly clearer in the season that Shelton would be replaced. “Numerous members of the Pirates organization, including some in the clubhouse, have recognized as much for the post-gazette in private,” writes Hiles.

8:45 a.m.: The Management Code of Pirates made the most headlines on Thursday in a natural way. However, the Bucs did not only change from Derek Shelton. Jon Heyman of New York Post reports that Pittsburgh separated himself from Radley Haddad, who has been a player and strategy trainer with the team since November 2021.

Haddad (who turns 35 tomorrow) is a former Minor League player in the Yankees organization, who has completed his career after the 2016 season. He then switched to a new role as Big League Bullpen Catcher of Yankees and as a coaching assistant. Haddad worked in this capacity until he was hired by the pirates after the 2021 campaign.

Between Haddad’s departure and Don KellyBench Coach’s doctorate from Bench Coach now has two openings to fill the staff. It is not known whether other coaching changes could be able because the Bucs can continue to adapt in the disappointing season. Kelly’s management debut was at least a success because the 3-2 victory of the Buccos against the Braves ended in Pittsburgh’s seven streaks last night, although the club still only has a dark 13:26 record.

Larger changes do not seem to arise in the near future, since Pirates owner Robert Nutting to Jason Mackey from Pittsburgh’s post-gazette said GM Ben Cherington and President Travis Williams go there nowhere for the time being. “I thinkR, “said Nutt.”I am not ready to give up what we expected, which includes a significantly better performance than you saw. I think we can come to that. I don’t think the blowing of 38 games into the year will help us do that. I think that would be distracted. I think that would get us out of the track. My focus must be on repairing this and repairing as quickly as possible. “”

On the left was the possibility that Nutting could examine a broader “restructuring” in the street if the pirates did not start to play better baseball. Cherington was discontinued in November 2019 to monitor a large reconstruction process that brought some premium talents to the squad. However, the BUCs did not deliver a single winning season in Cherington for five years for baseball operations.

The situation left the Pittsburgh fan base open, and it is clear that both Nutting and Cherington take part in these frustrations. Cherington took his share in the guilt on Thursday when he spoke to reporters (including Kevin Gorman von der Pittsburgh Tribune review) and committed.I am more responsible than any otherFor the struggles of the pirates.

“Certainly not lost that my part of this accountability, if I had done my job perfect for five years, maybe not meet with them today“, Said Chaington,”That is certainly possible. I have it completely. This is not all on Shary. And I believe that I realized that this was a choice of how difficult we had to be. I will definitely feel accountable in the future. “”

Cherington also repeated that he has the feeling that he is still the person who leads the front office for the future. Nutting also defended his own ownership of the franchise and explained that he had the feeling that the team can and will win under his responsibility again, and the feeling that he could increase the pirates place as a whole.

“In view of all the challenges in baseball, the economic differences in the game was very discussed. We will never use this as an excuse. Never have. I will never. But I think I am particularly well positioned in order to be able to influence the change in the economy of the game“Nutting said.”I have been there for 20 years after I have gone a very strong relationship with the commissioner’s office with the owners’ meetings, and I think I am clearly positioned to have a louder voice for Pittsburgh, as we deal with the next (collective negotiating agreement). I want to make sure that we don’t lose this position. I don’t believe. “”

Pirates fans understandably can take some skepticism in Nutting’s statements, and Mackey indeed expressed a counterpoint for the interview from Nutting in a follow-up column. The owner has often been criticized since his purchase of the team in 2007 for a lack of expenditure. In all pirates in the lower five salary bills, the pirates have classified property up to three seasons of Nutting, and the salary calculation brand remains at the beginning of the 2016 season (with their season of 30 mm) (with a 20 mm wage roll) (the 20-mm teams are subject). As much as Nutting is of the opinion that his team is financially disadvantaged compared to the larger markets of baseball, the resistance of the pirates against even moderate expenses is an obvious obstacle to their desire to become more competitive.

The pirates placed the information in a little on the field of Friday Enmanuel Valdez On the 10-day injured list due to the inflammation of the left shoulder and remembered infields/outfielder Ji Hwan Bae From triple-A in the corresponding step. For Valdez, a timeline was not administered or whether it is expected to be varied over time over time or not.

Valdez was taken over in a trade in Red Sox in December and made over 102 record appearances for the Buccos this season. 209/.294/.363. Valdez was primarily a Middle -infielder with the SOX, but his 26 appearances on the first basis for the pirates represented a significant change in its use, since Valdez ‘earlier experience in the position during his time in the farm systems Boston and Houston consisted of only nine Klein -Liga games.

Since the intended first Baseman Spencer Horwitz Has not played this season yet, the pirates turned Endy Rodriguez In the first base and viewed Valdez as a further security plan when Rodriguez also hit the 10-day il. Rodriguez is still far from returning from a right finger injury. Jared Triolo And Matt Gorski Now stand the top options for the first basis in the meantime. Horwitz has started a triple-a-rehab order and may be a week from his debut from 2025, although Valdez’s injury will leave the pirates even thinner in the position at short notice.