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Exclusive: Williams undoes Moreno’s firing, welcomes him back

Omar Moreno's part of the Family once again.

DKPittsburghSports.com has learned that Wednesday morning, Travis Williams, the Pirates' new president who'd been wholly unaware that the team's minor-league director had fired Moreno the previous day, called the 1979 World Series champion to extend an offer to accept a role that'll be assigned by the next general manager. Moreno enthusiastically accepted.

Williams initiated the process of contacting Moreno immediately upon reading my sourced report that, early Tuesday, Larry Broadway, the minor-league director under Neal Huntington who's still employed in that role, had informed Moreno he wouldn't be brought back as a minor-league instructor in 2020.