After spending five seasons as a special assistant to the general manager of the Cleveland Indians, Tanner was named a senior advisor to new Pittsburgh Pirates GM Neal Huntington in the autumn of 2007.
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He last served as a senior adviser to Pirates general manager Neal Huntington.
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Tanner guided the team together, and the players selected the Sister Sledge hit “We Are Family” as their theme song.
He began overhauling the ballclub by firing manager Don Gutteridge and replacing him with Chuck Tanner (third-base coach Bill Adair served as the interim for ten games during the transition).
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