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sascoach2003
As a teacher/coach in the Baton Rouge area, and LSU alum, I can truthfully say that Paul Mainieri is probably one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met, and will do almost anything for fellow coaches. I can believe everything that Avila is saying.
YourDaddy
Maybe a new site with this type of article would be better. Link to it from here, but don’t dilute your short-form, trade rumors core theme on this site.
In marketing trying to be all things to all people ends up with you losing your core constituents. Focus on your core and put articles like this on a prospect site. MLB Prospect Rumors?
jbravo17
The reason these features aren’t gaining wider interaction is because of a serious lack of diversity. Al Avila is a refreshing viewpoint that truly offers inspiration for a wider fanbase, unlike the interchangeable coverage of the previously featured GMs.
But this speaks more to the larger issue in baseball, and why it is slowly dying, and I certainly understand how those limitations affect content diversity.
Regardless, MLBTradeRumors should absolutely continue providing original content, because it’s what will expand their market (if that is their agenda), but a better approach would be to nuance the real stories and get beyond the surface observations.
For example, I’m going to assume there will be no women featured in this series… How about an examination of that, rather than another retelling of what school each middle-aged, white, Ivy League GM attended. And I say this as someone who fits those qualifiers, and finds it both abhorrent and boring that our sports culture has become this obsessed with what college you went to or your background in applied mathematics.
Jeff Todd
Interview access is always going to be limited by who you’re able to get in touch with as well as the set of possible interview subjects. Not everyone is willing/able to talk.
Re diversity in the game (including women), we just ran this interview earlier this month: mlbtraderumors.com/2016/04/tyrone-brooks-diversity…
Jeff Todd
Not entirely sure I understand this comment. You’re welcome to your opinion, of course, but how is this related to prospects? Maybe you meant to respond to one of our draft prospect interviews, in which case … I don’t know, we’ve always covered the draft — mostly, the top end, particularly since it relates to other matters (near-MLB ready players, QO, tradeable draft picks, etc). We have done interviews with some of the top players in the past, so it isn’t new.
As for this post, it’s a discussion with a GM, with a different angle that’s designed to get at a bit of background/personality. We’ve always done sort of off-beat features of this kind that nevertheless relate to key characters in the transactional game. (E.g., how players chose their agents.) I guess I don’t see it as straying from our core mission so much as an effort to provide some original content during a slow time in the market.