Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 by Adam Wagner
Frank Coonelly Likes His Secrecy
The Post-Gazette reported today that Frank Coonelly was reconsidering the choice of Neal Huntington as the next general manager of the Pirates because his name had been leaked to the public. This reasoning seems a little bit lame, but that’s what happens when you hire someone that is the twelfth most powerful man in baseball yet whose name isn’t known by all but the most obsessive fan.
If Huntington truly is the guy that Coonelly wants to decide the fate of his baseball team, then it should not matter if his name was leaked. Unless the leak somehow made Mark
Shapiro think about it and decide that he actually couldn’t afford to lose Huntington, there is no reason for Coonelly to back off of his decision.
Of course, if the announcement in the newspapers was premature, as it seems like it could have been (no one else is reporting it yet), and the newspapers just happened to be correct, Coonelly may have a right to be angry. If he really wanted to hire another candidate, for instance, and John Perotta’s/the PG’s announcement that Huntington was his man influenced the other candidate’s interest in the job he should be upset.
Otherwise, this is simply much ado about nothing. And, like the Pirates’ season, it probably is.
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