What is Cherington looking at when evaluating coaching staff?

With just 34 games remaining, the Pirates entered Friday with a 47-81 record, the fourth worst in the league.

Offensively, they rank last in runs (463), home runs (100) and slugging (.364). On the pitching side, they are 27th in ERA (5.01) and 27th in walks per nine innings (.384). Neither aspect of their game has gone well.

However, most of this was more or less expected coming into the season. The Pirates are in the early stages of a rebuild, and a potential 100-loss season was very much in play coming into the year. There is only so much blame that can be put on hitting coach Rick Eckstein, pitching coach Oscar Marin or any of the assistant coaches. The question is is that enough blame to…