Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Jim Tracy was hired Tuesday as the Pittsburgh Pirates' manager, The Associated Press learned. The Pirates will make the announcement at a news conference later Tuesday, according to a source close to the team who requested anonymity. The move sends Tracy from a team that traditionally has one of baseball's highest payrolls to one with one of the lowest. Tracy, 49, has been the front-runner from the start of the Pirates' search last week because of his long-standing ties to Pirates general manager Dave Littlefield, with whom he worked in the Montreal Expos' organization in the 1990s.