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Point Park University Friday Insider: The Contreras conundrum ... Mario's (gradual) return ... Dotson's fight

It's not that the Pirates don't have answers regarding Roansy Contreras.

It's that they don't even have the questions yet.

I'll always default to being a non-alarmist, and I'll apply that doubly in discussing this young man I've come to know and admire as much as I do anyone in the Pirates' clubhouse. But what's easily been the most unsettling facet of the ongoing Contreras saga this summer -- with a new chapter added just yesterday with management moving his minor-league assignment from Class AAA Indianapolis to the quieter setting of the Florida Complex League in Bradenton -- is that even now, two months after his struggles began, no one at any level of the organization seems to know what's amiss.