you obviously dont shit about baseball… what can be done when guys play well somewhere else or in the minors and come here and go in the shitter… coaches and organization do not have that much of an impact to make a guy all of the sudden play like shit. ok we traded brian giles for jason bay and oliver perez… bay was great then sucked this year and perez was unhittable then went in the shitter and was traded. you can do anythng about that… it happends. the word prospect just means someone who is goo but not good enough to be in the big leagues… if you that good u will be in the bigs and not a prospect. Do you not understand the pirates can’t buy talent like other teams… so they sign verterans and pray they have a abnormal great year… sometimes it works. most times it doesn;t… a far as trading prospects away… they only traded guys they knew would not sign or they knew they couldnt so they tried to get the best they could for them… the cam bonifay set the pirates back so many years because of bad contracts such as jason kendall @ 10million a year… to the yankees thats nothin but to the pirates that hurts big time. the problem is MLB… the problem is MLB…the problem is MLB… i dont know how many times i have to say it. fix baseball and the pirates have a chance. Until then 79 was the last championship they will ever win.