Today's Pirates Q&A

I really want to know what the obsession with Graham Koonce is. In today's Pirates Q&A with Dejan, there must be four questions about him and why he isn't playing. Let's see, oh yeah, HE'S 30! Craig Wilson just turned 29 in November, even Daryle Ward won't turn 30 until July. At the age of 30 with 8 major league at bats under his belt, that would suggest to me that he is exactly what Dejan speculates that he might be, Adam Hyzdu. Honestly, does anyone want to see Adam Hyzdu at first base every day, even if Craig Wilson isn't hitting well right now? I know I don't. There are also more cries for Freddy Sanchez to play every day, but Kovacevic's response that management "hopes he can blossom into a starter" baffle me. This guy was the second basemen of the future for a team that won last year's World Series and had he stayed in Boston may have been the starting second baseman last year(my friend from Boston is very adamant that maybe the only trades Epstein has made that haven't worked out are the two with us that resulted in us getting Sanchez and keeping Mike Gonzalez for Saurbeck and Suppan). Why does he have to prove his worth over Jose Castillo? Despite everyone's raves over Castillo's glove and bat last year, I thought he struck out a lot and had range at second base similar to what I imagine Wigginton's range at second would be like (God help us we'll never find out what that would look like). Castillo suffered from "Kevin Young disease" at second. With no real range or reaction time he turned routine plays into amazing diving stops. He could never reach the tough balls to make errors on them and because of this, he became "an amazing defensive second basemen" or even (according to Lloyd) "the best defensive second basemen in the league." And not only did Castillo strike out 92 times in 129 games, keep in mind that Castillo walked 23 times all year and Randall Simon walked 15 times in 61 games for us. We don't need another iron gloved infielder that is allergic to first base. We need Freddy Sanchez.