Mets hire DePodesta

[Outshined_One]

Press Release

 

He'll be their VP of Player Development and Amateur Scouting.

[seanhopper]

Press Release

 

He'll be their VP of Player Development and Amateur Scouting.

 

It's going to be interesting to see what Sandy Alderson, DePodesta, and Ricciardi do with the Mets. I almost view their hiring as a "what could have been" for the Cubs. The Mets fired Minaya, even though he had a few years left on his contract, and then brought in a strong and respected baseball man to run the club. In doing so, Alderson went out and hired some of his young (not so young anymore) baseball and stat minded protege from their days together in Oakland. The hires were not cheap as each of them had jobs within other organizations. The Ricketts could of done something similar at the beginning of last offseason or even possibly this offseason if they made their decision on Hendry early enough.

I'm not saying this is a sure thing for the Mets, but I would bet on their front office over the one the Cubs have in place today. As I said, it's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out. The Ricketts only viable option, that may come close to Alderson, would be to talk Stan Kasten out of retirement or somehow get Schuerholz away from the Braves to become the Cubs President. They would need total autonomy over the baseball side of the business. I wonder if the Ricketts are trying to go the inexpensive route and not hire high level, hire salaried execs.

[SouthSideRyan]

Hasn't Ricciardi kind of been exposed as an idiot?

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Hasn't Ricciardi kind of been exposed as an idiot?

 

He sure seems like an idiot on tv and Keith Law obviously doesn't think very highly of him. But he worked with a couple of heroes in the SABR world (in terms of guys in the front office that seem to get it) and was pretty quickly re-hired by one of them in NY. I guess I'd trust Alderson knows what he's doing.

[Guest]

Of all the positions to hire DePo to, you choose VP of Scouting and Player Development?

[Formerly Snayke]

I guess Jonah Hill wasn't available.

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Of all the positions to hire DePo to, you choose VP of Scouting and Player Development?

 

when you hire good people at the vp level of a mlb org, does it matter what the title is?

 

besides, based on his blog, doesn't seem like a bad fit.

[Guest]

Of all the positions to hire DePo to, you choose VP of Scouting and Player Development?

 

when you hire good people at the vp level of a mlb org, does it matter what the title is?

 

besides, based on his blog, doesn't seem like a bad fit.

 

Well, yeah, there's still a large bit of differentiation. Take Jim Hendry, he did a very good job on the player development side, and now that he has to do more than that he's not nearly as effective. DePo, for all his abilities, doesn't seem like an optimal match for the Scouting/Player Development role.

[jersey cubs fan]

Take Jim Hendry, he did a very good job on the player development side,

 

Is that really where his success was? I thought they had quite a few highly touted guys that failed to develop when he was in that role. I thought he did a good job of stockpiling minor league talent, but not really in making sure it developed appropriately.

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Of all the positions to hire DePo to, you choose VP of Scouting and Player Development?

 

when you hire good people at the vp level of a mlb org, does it matter what the title is?

 

besides, based on his blog, doesn't seem like a bad fit.

 

Well, yeah, there's still a large bit of differentiation. Take Jim Hendry, he did a very good job on the player development side, and now that he has to do more than that he's not nearly as effective. DePo, for all his abilities, doesn't seem like an optimal match for the Scouting/Player Development role.

 

Is Jim Hendry a VP? I didn't say GM level.

[javy knows my name]

Reading DePo's wiki page is pretty frustrating. I didn't know just how much Plaschke sucked until now

[CubColtPacer]

Of all the positions to hire DePo to, you choose VP of Scouting and Player Development?

 

when you hire good people at the vp level of a mlb org, does it matter what the title is?

 

besides, based on his blog, doesn't seem like a bad fit.

 

Well, yeah, there's still a large bit of differentiation. Take Jim Hendry, he did a very good job on the player development side, and now that he has to do more than that he's not nearly as effective. DePo, for all his abilities, doesn't seem like an optimal match for the Scouting/Player Development role.

 

Is Jim Hendry a VP? I didn't say GM level.

 

Jim Hendry is a VP as are several GM's around the league.

[NewUserName]

Reading DePo's wiki page is pretty frustrating. I didn't know just how much Plaschke sucked until now

 

In comparison, he make Joe Morgan look like a genius.

[Guest]

Of all the positions to hire DePo to, you choose VP of Scouting and Player Development?

 

when you hire good people at the vp level of a mlb org, does it matter what the title is?

 

besides, based on his blog, doesn't seem like a bad fit.

 

Well, yeah, there's still a large bit of differentiation. Take Jim Hendry, he did a very good job on the player development side, and now that he has to do more than that he's not nearly as effective. DePo, for all his abilities, doesn't seem like an optimal match for the Scouting/Player Development role.

 

Is Jim Hendry a VP? I didn't say GM level.

 

Jim Hendry is a VP as are several GM's around the league.

 

Right. For comparison, Oneri Fleita is the VP of Player personnel, which seems to be the equivalent of DePo's position.

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oh dear god. i meant front office personnel below the GM.

[Guest]

oh dear god. i meant front office personnel below the GM.

 

I'd think the same principle applies. Jersey rails about the Cubs hiring a marketing guy to be their "stat guru" all the time. DePo has a very limited scouting background, and is famous for having poor relational skills. In an area that has as much subjective evaluation as player development, I don't think he'd be the ideal candidate. Not that he'd be awful for the job, but it really doesn't suit his skills the best. Kinda like playing Devin Hester exclusively at CB or something like that.

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Ideal? Maybe not. How many ideal candidates are there? I guess I'd prefer DePo in this role than to not have DePo in the front office at all (if I were a Mets fan).

 

that seems like a bad analogy to me. If my choices were Hester only as a CB or no Hester at all, then pack your bags, Devin.

[jersey cubs fan]

oh dear god. i meant front office personnel below the GM.

 

I'd think the same principle applies. Jersey rails about the Cubs hiring a marketing guy to be their "stat guru" all the time. DePo has a very limited scouting background, and is famous for having poor relational skills. In an area that has as much subjective evaluation as player development, I don't think he'd be the ideal candidate. Not that he'd be awful for the job, but it really doesn't suit his skills the best. Kinda like playing Devin Hester exclusively at CB or something like that.

 

Those are very different situations though. The Cubs hired a marketing guy to be the only guy in the organization that pays attention to stats and the outcome was predictable. The guy in charge of evaluating minor leaguers isn't the only guy in the organization involved in their development. He has scouts under him. They have all sorts of minor league instructors.