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M's Hire New GM
Topic Started: Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:10 pm (142 Views)
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chicagochill95
Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:23 am
Giving any executive or head coaching job is a long term committment, I would never hire a 57-year-old for either.
Gotcha. I think.

So you think he is gonna die soon?
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Throw Your Diamonds In The Air`!

I wouldn't hire John McCain to be the Manager of the Nationals
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C.K. Breedlove
Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:28 am
I wouldn't hire John McCain to be the Manager of the Nationals
Why not?

He's a maverick!
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Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:30 am
C.K. Breedlove
Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:28 am
I wouldn't hire John McCain to be the Manager of the Nationals
Why not?

He's a maverick!
john mccain is a fucking douchebag, that's why


not because he's old



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C.K. Breedlove
Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:31 am
Mariners in 2009
Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:30 am
C.K. Breedlove
Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:28 am
I wouldn't hire John McCain to be the Manager of the Nationals
Why not?

He's a maverick!
john mccain is a fucking douchebag, that's why


not because he's old



Who would the Nats designate as 'Joe the Plumber'?
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I fucking knew there would be a time where I wished Paul Lo Duca was still a National


damn you M's
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M's fired their pitching coach today (Mel Stottlemyre), which was expected and a good thing. The M's need someone a little more advanced than Mel and his "fastball, fastball, fastball" mentality. We need a younger guy that wants to work hard and prove himself, not a 50+ has-been that is bored of fishing.

Also, in even better news, the M's now have a modernized Beane type statistical department! :dance:
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Tony Blengino wants to make one thing clear about his efforts to modernize the Mariners: Ichiro Suzuki will not necessarily be tracking statistical charts from a laptop at his clubhouse locker.

Blengino wrote an acclaimed book on statistical analysis in baseball a decade ago, “Future Stars,” while he was still a financial executive. That got him a job with the Milwaukee Brewers, where Zduriencik was a scout and eventually a special assistant to GM Doug Melvin until Seattle hired him a month ago.

Now Blengino’s running the Mariners’ newest creation, a department of statistical research.

Zduriencik, a first-time GM, is remaking the scouting staff, the front office, essentially the franchise after Seattle lost 101 games last season and hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2001. Last week he hired a first-time manager, Don Wakamatsu.

Blengino’s arrival signals Seattle’s transition out of relatively Flintsones-era thinking and into 21st Century SABR rattling. The 45-year-old former chief financial officer for the National Kidney Foundation of the Delaware Valley, outside Philadelphia, is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR). He’s part of the statistics-led movement — dubbed “sabermetrics” — that made Billy Beane a whiz GM in Oakland and Theo Epstein a boy wonder and World Series winner leading Boston.

Epstein’s Red Sox have Bill James, known as the founding guru of sabermetrics, on their front-office staff in Boston. These newer-age baseball minds trust on-base-plus-slugging percentages more than a scout’s own eyes.

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