The Pirates are expected to pursue free-agent center fielder Rick Ankiel this winter. "We will look into the free-agent market, and we have some money to apply to the right situation," general manager Ned Huntington told the Post-Gazette. "We go in not feeling that we have a desperate hole to fill but that, if we can find someone who makes us better in the short and hopefully the long term, we can do that." The Post-Gazette reports that Ankiel, who is having a down year, is on Pittsburgh's radar.