It’s inevitable that when a team isn’t good, fingers almost immediately point to the manager. And so it is with the Pirates; the cries of FIRE SHELTON are kind of loud in the Burgh these days, along with the usual (and boring) “Nutting needs to sell the team” stuff.
Guess what?
Neither is going to happen, at least not anytime soon.
The Nutting thing is a book article unto itself, but here I’m going to concentrate on Derek Shelton. As the most hands-on guy in the Pirates organization—the captain of the Pirate ship, so to speak—of course he bears some responsibility for the team’s performance.