Agent Matt Sosnick has strongly rejected claims that Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit hasn't been giving his best lately. "In reading a couple things, there's a lot being said about Ryan dogging it or not playing as hard as he could. Ryan's shocked about that," Sosnick told the Post-Gazette on Tuesday night. "He's also shocked that there are people saying he isn't happy playing in Pittsburgh or that he's gone into some shell. It is true that a lot of his closest friends on the team got traded. But he understands it's a business. He'd be the first to tell you he makes as much money in a year as he'd hoped to make in his life." Doumit is in the first year of a three-year extension that guarantees $11.5 million. "He likes being in Pittsburgh," Sosnick continued. "It's tough not being competitive this year, and he takes that kind of stuff very personally. But he came back from an injury probably before he should have."