The Reds

I should've mentioned this sooner, but the Reds did not hire Jim Beattie as myself and many other people thought they would. They did, in fact, hire Wayne Krivsky, formerly the assistant GM to Terry Ryan in Minnesota. I won't pretend to know a lot about Krivsky, but I do know that he's probably better than Beattie. Hiring Jim Beattie would have been an awful move (based on his hack job in Baltimore); hiring Wayne Krivsky makes sense. The guy's been an assistant GM in Minnesota for 8 years now and if there's a small market that has things running right up top, Minnesota is certainly right up there with Oakland. This means the Pirates are falling even further behind in their own division.