Is the fun over now? Are people in baseball done trying to reinvent the wheel with their wildly unconventional hires? Or is the next step for some team to hire a 16-year-old math whiz as their general manager?
I’m kidding — I think. Maybe Tony Vitello will make a great manager for the San Francisco Giants, along with Blake Butera for the Washington Nationals, Kurt Suzuki for the Los Angeles Angels and Craig Stammen for the San Diego Padres. And maybe the reincarnated Paul DePodesta will be who finally figures out how to make the Colorado Rockies a consistent winner.
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Where is the evidence for any of that, though?
All industries should welcome new ways of thinking. Baseball has done a good job of that over the past two decades, benefiting from advances in analytics and technology. Yet there is still risk in trying to be too creative with hires. It’s doubtful all of them will work out as intended.
What exactly is it some teams want, other than to do some
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