DK's Daily Shot of Pirates: Doing development right

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DK Pittsburgh Sports

Sports, Football, Nhl, Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baseball, Pirates, Matt Williamson, Mlb, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers, Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh, Nfl, Hockey

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

When Ben Cherington took over as GM of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the farm system ranked 20th out of 30 teams. Now, just two years in, the organization is ranked No. 4 and still climbing. Where it's started has been the instruction given at all levels. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including 10 Premier League games.
0:13.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:22.3	The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.
0:28.0	It's on Prime.
0:33.4	The core, the foundation of what Ben Charrington hopes to build in Pittsburgh is rooted in one single concept.
0:52.8	And that's teaching.
0:53.9	Good morning to you. Good Friday morning. I'm Dan Kovachievich
0:56.8	of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. And this is Daily Shot of Pirates. It comes your way bright and early every
1:02.9	weekday. If you're into football and or hockey, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Penguins
1:09.0	right where you found this.
1:16.4	Alex Stumpf, the beatwriter for us at D.K. Pittsburgh Sports,
1:24.9	spent, well, a pretty long time over the course of the past few weeks,
1:33.1	putting together gradually between games, between series, an intensive,
1:41.7	exhaustive, in-depth piece, examining how the pirates are going about player development.
1:49.3	I can't recommend this strongly enough. Go to our website to DK.Pittsburgsports.com. Click on the Pirates logo near the top. You'll find it
1:54.7	right there front and center. It's outstanding. It's one of the best pieces we've run on any subject
2:03.5	since our companies launched seven years ago. It shows you, doesn't tell you, it shows you,
2:13.5	what it is that the pirates are hoping to do. This is now the second time I'm using that term hoping,
2:20.0	because that's really all you can discuss and dissect at this phase.
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