Littlefield is complacent

Dave Littlefield's hemming and hawing has likely screwed the Pirates once again. A week ago the Giants would've made a deal for Sean Casey, but Littlefield waited and held out for more while the Giants signed Shea Hillenbrand. That all but assures Casey will be a Pirate for the rest of 2006. According to the Trib, the Pirates have also fallen out of contention for Ryan Shealy because they are unwilling to pay the price of Matt Capps, according to today's PG notebook. If no one else makes a better offer some combination of Torres, Marte, and Hernandez may get the deal done, but I wouldn't count on it. Also in the Trib notebook comes the not new information that no one seems willing to pay the price for Craig Wilson. The Dodgers are the latest team to pull out, with the Pirates strangely interested in Cesar Izturis, who's pretty much Jack Wilson in blue. The assumption would be that the Pirates have a trade for JWilson as well, but that would be pretty shocking. In the PG today Dejan reports that the Yankees are again becoming serious about Roberto Hernandez, while Casey may be extended or traded sometime in August, and Randa might be untradable becausee of his stupidly large salary. At this point, the only thing that I'm sure about is that whatever Littlefield does before the deadline will probably make me sick.