Frank Coonelly on September 27, 2012: "no changes at the top"

Clearly the statement was made in save-my-job mode. Let's hope common sense prevails.

 

 

 

Update #1 - November 6, 2012 - election day PR, believe it or not: Nutting announces 'no changes will be made' to the front office after his 'investigation'. However, he instructed baseball operations to scale back sans military training. My take: Much of Stark's processes for 'military training' (like any more Hell Weeks) was probably already axed but never disclosed to the media. Therefore, Nutting simply announced that decision to make it seem to the fans as though he was 'spanking' the front office. That's typical Pirates PR BS.

It is unfortunate that Nutting didn't have the balls to clear house - regardless of the timing. I'd rather see the org headed in the right direction with a new management group using 2013 to get their processes in order than to waste 2013 and have to start anew in 2014. And that, folks, is exactly what is going to happen. Go to the bank on it.