Cubs team sources: Likely Sandberg reconciliation

[SouthSideRyan]

Ryne Sandberg has had 1 interview for a major league coaching job.

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[davearm2]

Who do you want to see manage?

 

The manager should be an extension of the GM and the organization's philosophy. The general manager should set the philosophy of the organization (what type of hitters and pitchers does the team want, etc) and the manager should help to execute that philosophy by promoting whatever offensive and pitching approach that philosophy calls for. With extreme exceptions (20- and 21-year-olds in the majors, for example), the fundamentals should be taken care of throughout the minors - so if you want to hire a guy because he'll preach fundamentals, then you should be pulling for him to be a minor league manager where that teaching will be far more useful. Except for the youngest of players, if you're trying to teach fundamentals at the major league level, you've failed already.

 

Whoever the Cubs hire as GM should have full reign over bringing in a manager of his choice. If that GM is Epstein and he feels Ryno will work inside the constraints of the organizational philosophy Theo sets, then I'm ok with hiring Ryno. Hendry's biggest problem with the Cubs is that we never had an organizational philosophy, it changed with each managerial hire. When you rely on the manager to set the philosophy, it changes with every new managerial hire. You should hire a manager to fit your organizational philosophy, not let your manager set your philosophy.

Excellent post.

 

The GM dictates the organizational philosophy.

 

The ideal manager is whoever can best implement that philosophy at the bigleaguge level, and instill it in bigleague players.

 

Just as the ideal scouting director is whoever will find the best players to fit the philosophy, and the best farm director is whoever will best teach it across all levels of the minors (or more accurately perhaps, best manage and guide the coaching staff that will teach it).

 

This notion that Sandberg would be a great hire completely ignores the fundamental question of, how well would he or wouldn't he mesh with an as-yet-unnamed GM, and an as-yet-unveiled philosophy.

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Who was the poster that heavily defended the Grabow signing (based on ERA) and then disappeared forever after Grabow's first season? This Hollandsworth guy sounds exatly like him.

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Hollandsworth's mug, the character: 8.3

[Sammy Sofa]

Who was the poster that heavily defended the Grabow signing (based on ERA) and then disappeared forever after Grabow's first season? This Hollandsworth guy sounds exatly like him.

 

What the what. Someone please link to that thread.

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Who was the poster that heavily defended the Grabow signing (based on ERA) and then disappeared forever after Grabow's first season? This Hollandsworth guy sounds exatly like him.

 

What the what. Someone please link to that thread.

 

you don't remember that? there were pages and pages and pages of him defending that signing and then he completely disappeared.

 

he talked exactly like this hollandsworth's mug guy. i'm suspicious.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm dying to read this now.

[SouthSideRyan]

Thought it was Peoriaman, but his only post on Grabow was "good signing"

[SouthSideRyan]

And while Derwood considered it to be too much money, he did say he was better than Marshall.

[SouthSideRyan]

cubsfan26

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cubsfan26

 

this is awesome:

 

Yeah I know the stat systems don't like him because he allows too many base runners and doesn't strike out enough people. But from watching this guy pitch, he seems to pitch better with guys on base for whatever reason.

 

I'm also sorry I factor in actual results of how many runs a guy allowed to score in the innings he pitched. I saw all the fangraph stats and I saw his WHIP, and the walks per inning and strike out stats. But none of that tells me why Grabow has gotten such good results when it comes to letting runs score two years in a row. Baseball is a game played by humans not computers, so there's human factors in things.

 

 

when you start typing out things like "i know the stat systems don't like him because he allows too many base runners" and "he seems to pitch better with guys on base for whatever reason", alarm bells should start going off in your head and you should immediately delete what you just wrote.

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awesome.

 

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[Sammy Sofa]

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