Chris Young dominates former team

We could sit by the campfire and talk all night about why the pirates have been so shitty for so long. There is the Ramirez trade, Derek Bell and the chain of awful washed up free agents we've brought in through the years.e.g Simon, Stynes, Randa etc.,and of course, the prospects that never pan out (A Brown, E Brown, M Cummings J Davis J House W Young and of course C Hermanson)..but the Chris Young trade is an underrated topic when it comes to Buc-stupidity.

To Recap: We draft Young, pay him a handsome signing bonus by Pirates standards, then trade him to the Expos for Matt Herges. We then cut Herges in spring training. Herges goes on that year to post a (approx,)2.75 ERA with 2 teams. Littlefield said we traded Young because they were thin in middle relief, although they had Damaso Marte..but traded him. fast forward to 2006, and Young returns to pitch 2 hit shutout ball against his former organization.