This is news?

I saw earlier today that Tracy and the Bucs were going to announce his new coaching staff today, so I was curious as to who we were getting to fill some of the slots filled by people that would be staying in Cali rather than following Tracy cross-country (Hoffman as bench coach, Wallach as hitting coach, etc). Instead, we got this:

Jim Colborn and Jim Lett have been named to Pirates Manager Jim Tracy's coaching staff, General Manager Dave Littlefield announced today.

Gee whiz, really? Colborn and Lett, what a surprise! This doesn't seem at all like a desperate attempt to keep the Pirates in the news in the middle of Steelers season. Good work guys. Come back when you actually have something to tell me.

Also, in the notes of the second non-news article above Littlefield talks about the Pirates/Jason Bay talks, which are "ongoing." Very few non-politicians can use as many words to say as few things as Dave Littlefield does. For actual news on the Bay talks, Charlie had a post a couple days back (that I believed linked to a BCT article by Perrotto) that placed the talks hovering around $16 million for next year plus his three arbitration years, which would be an incredible steal. I'd imagine that $16 million is the number leaked by the Pirates that they're asking for, while Bay is asking for something in the $20-25 million range, but I could be wrong.