{"id":7916,"date":"2011-09-27T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2011-09-27T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T02:30:54","slug":"rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotation next season doesn&#8217;t have many vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into spring training the Pirates rotation doesn\u2019t look to have many vacancies. After solid seasons by right-handers Charlie Morton, James McDonald and Jeff Karstens, the organization won\u2019t have as many decisions to make this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at what Charlie and James and Jeff have done this year, when Kevin [Correia] was healthy, especially the first half of the year, he did some good things,\u201c General Manager Neal Huntington said. \u201cWhere do we fill out our depth? We need six starters. Really five, the majority of the season once Ross went down, chances of that happening again, you just look at the odds, not very good.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>With four spots looking to be set, Ohlendorf will have one final chance to make an impression tonight against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. Ohlendorf has made just eight starts this season due to a shoulder strain that landed him on the disabled list on April 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo who\u2019s that sixth starter, that seventh starter, that eighth starter?\u201d Huntington said. \u201c Is it from within? Is it Brad Lincoln? Is it a free agent? Do we bring Paul Maholm back? Do we turn it over to one of our young guys? Do we look in the free agent market? Do we look in the trade Market? Yes. We\u2019ll\u00a0 explore all options. I don\u2019t think its wide open. We got a lot of guys who need to continue to grow and develop and show that they\u2019re ready to take a hold of those jobs and never give them up again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Yahoo! Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into spring training the Pirates rotation doesn\u2019t look to have many vacancies. After solid seasons by right-handers Charlie Morton, James McDonald and Jeff Karstens, the organization won\u2019t have as many decisions to make this off-season. \u201cYou look at what Charlie and James and Jeff have done this year, when Kevin [Correia] was healthy, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1307,926,425,619,652],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional","tag-brewers","tag-neal-huntington","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-ross-ohlendorf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rotation next season doesn&#039;t have many vacancies - Ohio Valley Athletics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rotation next season doesn&#039;t have many vacancies - Ohio Valley Athletics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Heading into spring training the Pirates rotation doesn\u2019t look to have many vacancies. After solid seasons by right-handers Charlie Morton, James McDonald and Jeff Karstens, the organization won\u2019t have as many decisions to make this off-season. \u201cYou look at what Charlie and James and Jeff have done this year, when Kevin [Correia] was healthy, especially [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ohio Valley Athletics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"660\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"439\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@OVathletics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@OVathletics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72\"},\"headline\":\"Rotation next season doesn&#8217;t have many vacancies\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/\"},\"wordCount\":273,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"brewers\",\"neal huntington\",\"pirates\",\"Pittsburgh\",\"ross ohlendorf\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Professional Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/\",\"name\":\"Rotation next season doesn't have many vacancies - Ohio Valley Athletics\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg\",\"width\":\"660\",\"height\":\"439\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rotation next season doesn&#8217;t have many vacancies\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Ohio Valley Athletics\",\"description\":\"The Ohio Valley&#039;s #1 site for local Sports Talk!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ohio Valley Athletics\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png\",\"width\":960,\"height\":167,\"caption\":\"Ohio Valley Athletics\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/OVathletics\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72\",\"name\":\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x\",\"caption\":\"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF\"},\"description\":\"This article was a provided public press release from one of our affiliate publications and\/or schools.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ovathletics\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/author\/ovathleticscom\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rotation next season doesn't have many vacancies - Ohio Valley Athletics","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rotation next season doesn't have many vacancies - Ohio Valley Athletics","og_description":"Heading into spring training the Pirates rotation doesn\u2019t look to have many vacancies. After solid seasons by right-handers Charlie Morton, James McDonald and Jeff Karstens, the organization won\u2019t have as many decisions to make this off-season. \u201cYou look at what Charlie and James and Jeff have done this year, when Kevin [Correia] was healthy, especially [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/","og_site_name":"Ohio Valley Athletics","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/","article_published_time":"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":"660","height":"439","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@OVathletics","twitter_site":"@OVathletics","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/"},"author":{"name":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72"},"headline":"Rotation next season doesn&#8217;t have many vacancies","datePublished":"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00","dateModified":"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/"},"wordCount":273,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg","keywords":["brewers","neal huntington","pirates","Pittsburgh","ross ohlendorf"],"articleSection":["Professional Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/","name":"Rotation next season doesn't have many vacancies - Ohio Valley Athletics","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg","datePublished":"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00","dateModified":"2011-09-28T02:30:54+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/morton-solid1.jpg","width":"660","height":"439"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/rotation-next-season-doesnt-have-many-vacancies\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rotation next season doesn&#8217;t have many vacancies"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/","name":"Ohio Valley Athletics","description":"The Ohio Valley&#039;s #1 site for local Sports Talk!","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#organization","name":"Ohio Valley Athletics","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tsalkovick-A.png","width":960,"height":167,"caption":"Ohio Valley Athletics"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ohiovalleyathletics\/","https:\/\/x.com\/OVathletics"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/e66db9eae7163918283827dcfcfa9b72","name":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c692ada8939d2c454188566f8329e1bb06f693ec298b50080d8371f624c943af?s=96&r=x","caption":"OVATHLETICS.COM STAFF"},"description":"This article was a provided public press release from one of our affiliate publications and\/or schools.","sameAs":["http:\/\/twitter.com\/ovathletics"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/author\/ovathleticscom\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7918,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions\/7918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}