It's sad for the Pittsburgh fans that the Pirates' management will not try to field a good team.
I don't know about that. McCutcheon, Tabata, Walker, Alvarez have all come up in the last year (the last three in the last few months). They traded to upgrade C. Jones is adequate at 1B for now. They've got Lincoln and McDonald now as young starters. If Maholm or Duke could ever be consistent they would actually have something working there. With that said, Huntington has done a bang up job of improving the entire system there and I wouldn't be surprised if they fielded a .500 finally in 2012.
