Pirates News-Dump pulled his manager while the Vatican chose a new pope

Pittsburgh pirates dismissed the manager Derek Shelton 38 games in the season. They appointed his successor, the bench coach Don Kelly, at the same time as they announced the dismissal.

The pirates started the 2025 season with a 12-26 file and seated at 10 games in the Central NL. They also lost seven games in a row and are only 1-9 in their last 10 competitions. That Shelton was dismissed following a second disappointing second half in 2024 and that a bad start of the season is not a surprise, but if Kelly will be what is repairing the pirates, as the owner of the Bob Nutting team suggested it in a declaration On the shooting and joint hiring is another question.

Although Shelton's time with the hackers concluded with a record of 306-440 (percentage of victories of 0.410), three last places and zero appearance in the playoffs, it is not as if he had introduced these problems to Pittsburgh. The 2019 team finished 69-93, in the last place of the Central NL. The 2018 and 2017 teams both finished in fourth place, the old one with more than 0,500 with 82 victories. Pirates have not been in the playoffs since 2015, when they lost in NL Wild Card Game against Cubs. This team had a higher pay of the opening day ($ 90.1 million) than the 2025 club (86.5 million dollars), despite the general increase in the cost of players and the addition of a 26th place in 2020.

“There remains a lot of baseball to play. We must act with a feeling of emergency and take the necessary steps to solve this problem now to get back on the right track as a team and organization,” said Nutting, the team owner since 2007, in the press release. However, there are much more important problems with the pirates that is the director. As Fox Sports, Rowan Kavner and Deesha Thosar analysts Recently saying, Respectively: “until or unless the nut decides to really invest in your team – or sell it – it is difficult to imagine that a regime change will cause a significant change” and, “in an ideal world, a change of diet from top to bottom should be in order”.

As for Shelton, the director general Ben Cherington, architect of these teams since November 2019 – all of Shelton's time as a manager – said in the same declaration of the team that “Derek has worked incredibly hard and has sacrificed a lot of five years. A change of decor is now necessary.”

This also happens at the same time as the announcement of a new pope chosen by the Vatican. Some things just can't wait for the Friday discharge.

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