As has already been established, the Pirates enter the 2020 season with a number of question marks, including what the club plans to do with the middle infield positions.
It wasn’t always that way, though. For years, the Pirates boasted the game’s best defensive second baseman in Bill Mazeroski, a perennial Gold Glove winner who just happened to have hit baseball’s most dramatic home run of all time.
And then there’s the shortstop position. Decades before Maz was designated as Hoover No. 4 by the inimitable Bob Prince, the Pirates trotted out the game’s greatest-ever shortstop and one of the greatest players in the sport regardless of position: Honus Wagner.