In article <480ffb1b$0$5710$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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rja@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> "Lance Freezeland" <freezelandlaw.nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
message
> news:4qou045o9f8lol0vo3odtp1mhvp720mb3a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Wait till y'all see what a pathological liar Jocketty is. And you'll
> > know when they're getting ready to trade a player. Jocketty and his
> > operatives within the organization will start softening him up with
> > well-placed half-truths with the local press, so as to turn the fans
> > against him. And after said player's gone, then he'll bust out the
> > real cheap shots.
> >
> > He's your Liar now.
>
> Alright, enough drama. What we really need to know is his philosophy
around
> what we always talk around here, sabermetrics. Wasn't part of the
reason he
> was let go because he was "old fa****oned" in his methods of evaluating
> talent? I couldn't find that article.
It was more than that, even. Jocketty simply refused to operate in a
front office that was run like a business and refused to cooperate with
parts of the organization that he wasn't the dictator of. DeWitt was
trying to overhaul a very weak player development system and replaced
Jocketty's buddy, Bruce Manno, with Jeff Luhnow, a guy with very
different ideas and Jocketty responded to that by simply not talking to
that entire department. DeWitt gave Jocketty plenty of time to grow up,
but Jocketty never did, so he simply had to leave.
Jocketty's a decent baseball guy, he's not like Dave Littlefield or
Buzzie's Other Idiot Son, he's just not a guy I particularly would want
to be in charge of my nine-figure-generating business.
--
Dan Szymborski
dan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"A critic who refuses to attack what is bad is
not a whole-hearted sup****ter of what is good."
- Robert Schumann
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