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Top Prospect Alert ranks their top 10 Pirate prospects. It pains me that Nyjer Morgan, Adam Boeve, and Josh Sharpless are all on this list and I can't think of suitable replacements for them on it.

Hanley Ramirez and Justin Verlander are your ROYs. I don't really have any qualms there.

Manny Acta, who entered the news last month for living in the building Cory Lidle crashed into, is expected to become the Nats next manager.

It appears that the Red Sox bid for Matsuzaka is in the neighborhood of the Pirates' 2006 payroll. Remind me how they want people to believe the Yankees are worse than them?

Jerry Crasnick writes about names that will get Perrotto going (in fact, he's already mentioned three of these guys).