Baylor a candidate for O's job?

[RedIvyCub]

Why is MacPhail invovling himself with baseball decisions? Seriously, just hire a GM(Not Ed Lynch, btw. Just call up Billy Beane and have him send a whiz kid over) and get out of the way. Andy, you suck at baseball operations. Give up.

 

Let's see...maybe because his title is President, Baseball Operations of the Baltimore Orioles???? :-k

 

And, usually Team Presidents, hire a GM that will have control over day to day baseball transactions. Hence my questioning/suggestion that MacPhail hire a GM, considering his GM skills, are, how should I say this...pitful?

 

The O's have a two headed GM with three assistant GMs in place already. I saw the press conference on MASN. He is team president but only over baseball operations in Baltimore where he was over both baseball and business in Chicago. The next question was pretty much isn't the title just a glorified GM title and he didn't just come out and say yes but that is what was alluded to. So that makes one wonder what happens with Flannigan (Exec VP Baseball Ops) and Duquette (VP Baseball Ops) in Baltimore. They also have the Stockstill brothers (John in charge of scouting and formerly with the Cubs and Steve in charge of minor league ops) and Scott Proefrock over baseball admin as there three Asst GMs.

 

FYI, watched the press conference to see if Girardi was brought up since their interim manager is former ICubs Manager Dave Trembley. I suspect Girardi is waiting for Lou to quit or Torre to be fired to accept his next managing job.

 

So just remember, MacPhail was GM here from mid 2000 to mid 2002 which doesn't give you a lot of time to turn such a pitiful major league club around...but he sure set up Hendry with a nice base for the 03 run. You are entited to your opinion but I would say that MacPhail has two more WS rings than Hendry will ever see.