Neal Huntington’s 8 Best Moves - Bucs Dugout

Although you should keep in mind the context a trade is made in, only time proves who profits best from a deal.

There was some talk on Twitter this morning about Neal Huntington’s worst moves (and I might make a list of those later this week), so I thought I’d take a look at his best ones. A couple of things here. First, I generally take the position that the best time to evaluate trades is when they happen (draft picks are a different story, since there’s a limited amount of information available), but I want to be somewhat results-oriented here. It’s not that I want to see major-league results before calling a trade a win, but that I want to see at least some post-transaction evidence that a move is likely to work in the Pirates’ favor. After all, this is about Neal Huntington’s best moves, not Neal Huntington’s best ideas for moves. Second, this isn’t meant to be a defense of Huntington, and actually, I think that as a list of Huntington’s best moves in four and a half years, this is rather weak tea. I’m just picking out what I think his best moves have been.