Pirates shortstop Jack Wilson apologized today for his remarks yesterday criticizing the team's latest round of trades.

Just after the clubhouse opened to members of the media before tonight's scheduled game against the Chicago Cubs, Wilson urged reporters to come to his locker because he wanted to get something off his chest.

"I really didn't sleep last night, I think some of my comments were pretty harsh," Wilson said. "When you are here, and in the moment and you are talking to guys and everyone is bummed out, you tend to lose your head a little and vent. A lot of the things I said, I thought about last night talking to my wife and they were pretty inaccurate, I would say.

"I definitely don't want to be that guy who is butting heads with the organization or trying to cause any type of negativity, so, I apologize for that."

Wilson also made a point to get across that his comments today were done not by the urging of anyone within the organization, but only after he spoke to his wife and after he had realized what he said yesterday could (and probably had been) construed as a negative by many.

"I haven't talked to anybody, I haven't talked to Neal [Huntington] or anybody like that," Wilson said. "I just felt like that's not the person, that's not the player I want to be for the Pittsburgh Pirates. I am definitely passionate about winning, about being a Pirate and I think sometimes it comes out in a negative way. For that, I definitely apologize."

Yesterday, in response to the trades, Wilson said he was "beyond, beyond tired" of such moves.

Of management, Wilson also went on to say yesterday, "They're businessmen. They're trying to achieve winning baseball in Pittsburgh. The biggest question is: When is that going to be? When do things start turning around? It's just hard for guys who have been here and seen these exact same trades happen and seen it absolutely do nothing. I've been here nine years. I've seen two or three of these trades every year and still haven't had a winning season."