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elmedius
I’ll take the job. Just putting it out there. The balls in your court Arizona.
chesteraarthur
Whether you can fill the position and whether you can optimally fill the position are different, however.
RoadRunner1938
D Back should keep LaRussa & make him manager! Wish he would come back to the Cardinals!
davidcoonce74
The game passed LaRussa behind a long time ago.
Cardinals17
Amen!
stl_cards16 2
TLR was way ahead of the game in using”situational players”, especially in the bullpen. He has a brilliant baseball mind, just not as far as building a team.
That said, there’s no way St. Louis would have him back. He’s too hard-headed and that’s a big reason the Cardinals wanted a first time manager. But I still bet he’s a better manager than Mke Matheny.
hamelin4mvp
“Some of the dysfunction up there (Phoenix)”
Where is this candidate from, the Mexican league?
paulslc
Hahaha I wondered if anyone else caught that
dbacksrs
LOL
Frozen rope
Montgomery, really? They need to get a real GM, enough of these Fantasy Baseball Interns, they need somebody who has a solid track record and success
gmflores27
Please just stop it. The reason the Cubs, Red Sox, Cardinals etc are so good is because of analytics. And your favorite gm(Dave Stewart) was just fired lmao
Frozen rope
No you genius, the reason they are good is because of the players. Analytics tells you what they have done, it’s the people behind it that makes the difference and the numbers are the same for all. By the way, you are my favorite gm, you idiot!
gmflores27
Your comment makes no sense at all. The GM/Analytics department works with the scouts(who have the first say) on players which they can acquire
Frozen rope
Obviously, you have never been a scout, in the front office, or part of anything in MLB, but I’m sure your team won the division last year in little league, zip it
teufelshunde4
Did you watch STL in 2016? Mediocre at best…
Frozen rope
Just ignore him, Baltimore is considered analytical and they lost the game yesterday with a recycled thrower on the mound when they had one of the top 5 relievers sitting in the pen with his jacket on. Reason analytics; he has been pitching well the last couple of weeks (who cares) RHP vs RHH, (who cares), BJ’s RHH’s struggle @ RH BP’s, and so on…get off the analytic train, the Best Mgr’s (Boche/Madden) are baseball minds and the best players don’t have a degree from MIT. Manage that from a computer.
Dookie Howser, MD
And get off my lawn while you’re at you, you no good kids!
jd396
Yeah, enough of these analytics guys like all of those teams who win all the time hire. D-Backs should hire Tony La Russa.
Mo R.
Allard Baird from Boston
Frozen rope
Decent name, not the track record of Ned Colletti
Mo R.
I like Colleti. Probably best for overseeing the whole thing. I like Baird better for setting up baseball ops, adding talent to the front office, operating in the traditional gm role. Interesting in that both of these men are among the most respected and well-liked in the game among their peers.
willi
Tony’s responsible for this disaster in Arizona , he should have been fired three months ago !
jd396
I’m sure ownership had the intention of letting La Russa and Stewart ride for a few more seasons but they didn’t expect them to fail so conclusively. It wasn’t the losing, it was that the transactions they made were immediately recognizable as some of the most magnificently terrible moves we’ve seen in a LONG time.
I’m sure other GMs had to ask things like “Oh, you’re serious?” or “Would you be willing to submit to a voluntary field sobriety test?” or “This isn’t a Dateline special, is it?”
They really need one of the younger Ivy League type guys and to stick with him for five years and see where things go.
brandons-3
No doubt it’s dysfunctional, but I give them a little more slack. Kevin Towers needed to go, no doubt about that. As far as Stewart and La Russa, well they made some of the most boneheaded moves that so many panned from the start. It’s as much the dysfunction of the others as it is the candidates themselves. If you’re a person and you get offered a GM job, you’ve got to take it. It’s up to you to actually do something. Teams have won in spite of owners before. Of course, it’s easy to say you’d never take it if you knew you’d never be offered. 30 in the world. You get fired after a few years, so what?
teufelshunde4
The Miller trade is what killed DBACKS FO. Traded far to much for a talented, but flawed SP.
RKMartin
The Diamondbacks seem to be the Cleveland Browns of Major League Baseball.