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Kovacevic: Pirates’ smart new front office, Manfred’s boldness raise baseball spirits

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Nick Gonzales. - TUCSON DAILY

Derek Shelton was stoked, all right.

And I'm not referring to his reflexive reaction, caught last night by the Pirates' social media people, to the team selecting New Mexico State slugger Nick Gonzales seventh overall in Major League Baseball's draft ...

... though that sure was fun. Ben Cherington's a pretty serious dude, and he's in a pretty serious setting there. Couldn't have been easy to coax that little laugh.

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