If you ever want to grasp the full extent to which fans of this particular franchise are afflicted,

no only that they might have a number one overall pick who's a bust on their hands, and it really

doesn't come up that often.

Good morning to you.

Good Monday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachvich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Pirates.

It comes your way bright and early every weekday.

If you're in two, football and or hockey, I also offer daily

shots of Steelers and Penguins that I hope you'll also check out. Henry Davis is a

terrific kid. You couldn't pull for a finer young man to do well. Setting aside being the number one overall pick, setting aside

the rightful hype that comes with being the number one overall pick, setting aside seeing now

players from Henry's class make it to the majors with other teams and wondering whether or not the pirates made a mistake

with the selection, whether they blew it with development, whether it's all of the above,

which I tend to check when it comes to these types of boxes.

The only thing, well, I should say things that are known about Henry going into this winter

is that according to Ben Charington, they still plan on having him catch. There's no

design on moving him to some other position or anything like that. The catching hierarchy,

as laid out by Charrington a couple of times already this

offseason, is that Joey Bart's entering, as he should, as the pole position, default,

whatever it is that you want to call it starter. He's going to be the starter. He should be the

starter. And that from there, you have a two and a three on that depth

...