Clint Hurdle was the manager of the Colorado Rockies(his only big league gig) from the second half of 2002, through the first 49 games of 2009. He had exactly one winning season, but he made it count. The year was 2007; a year he decided to get his team into the World Series(a series they would ultimately lose). That year, the Rockies went 90-73. To most people, one winning season in what amounts to basically 7 seasons in Colorado, is not enough for a big league franchise. I don't care how successful that one season was. To be exact, he was 534-625 over that time, which is only a 46% win percentage.
I didn't think he would get the Mets job over the other rumored finalists Terry Collins and Melvin Mora, and he did not. Maybe Clint Hurdle is going to Pittsburgh as a filler job; a job in which he is just waiting around for a better club to need his services, while getting paid. If better clubs do come along, this will be a smart move. However, at the moment, it appears to just be a death sentence.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been nowhere close to a winning season since 1992. They have had 18 straight losing seasons to be exact. With their current roster, they don't appear to be heading toward that first winning season since the year Slick Willy was elected President Of The United States any time soon. It's almost as if they don't want to win for some strange reason. If Clint is not hired by another team in the next two or three years, he'll likely have a pretty bad record in the Steel City, which won't look good to any potential suitors. Not sure what you are going for Clint, but Pittsburgh is not exactly the best baseball city to try to reinvent yourself. Good luck. You're going to need it.
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