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legit1213
This has to be frustrating, from a player point of view. To see your manager pulling the organizational strings and then acting like he’s not doing so, in his responses to the media.
ianthomasmalone
Just like when GMs say they’ll give a guy more time and then DFA them the next day?
No Soup For Yu!
Scioscia is saying he’s not directly involved, and while I believe that, I refuse to believe that the Angels’ front office will be able to go through the hiring process without catering to what Scioscia wants.
angelscamp
I think the press made up this whole storyline about Scioscia’s influence over Moreno and his impact on DiPoto’s leaving. Jerry was too young to handle the situation and pushed too hard too fast in an organization he just joined? It’s not the job of the GM to set the batting order or anything else related to “managing’ the team, his job is to go out and get the players and manage the money. Many of the sports writers act like they know everything because they are wannabes, but they are mostly gossips, one level removed from soap opera junkies. Go Angels, Go Mike Scioscia. Screw the press.
Out of place Met fan
I would say it is a role of any boss in any field to give an employee the best tools to do their job.
In modern baseball that’s a summary of what mountains of data indicate as the highest probability of success. Whether an employee uses those tools is another story.
jb226
He didn’t even do a good job of acting like he’s not doing so. In one breath he says how he’s not involved, and in the next breath he explains how what’s really important is for the manager and GM to be on the same page. The manager is obviously already locked in, or Dipoto would still be the team’s GM. So what he’s really saying is that what’s important is that they hire a GM who agrees with his way of doing things.
“I’m not involved, but what’s important is that they hire somebody who lets me do what I want.”
Hmm.