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  1. ashbury
    Maybe lack of public evidence of the fire in the belly for the job, which is what I also perceive to be what holds back Molitor from getting the nod without any need for further interviews. Note that this is not the same as the fiery personality type, for which Mientkiewicz gets positive reviews. I think the ideal candidate hasn't surfaced yet. You want cool under pressure; you want the burning desire to win; you want an analytical mind who also trusts what he sees; you want youthful vigor and the wisdom that comes with age. And so on. And you want no red flags. If after all this it eventually circles back to either Glynn or Molitor I think we will be OK.
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    I don't hold Mientky's on-field fight against him forever. But I would like to see him build up three more years on his resume with no further embarrassments to himself or his team. That could be as a minor league manager, or as a major league coach. Sitting at Gene Glynn's right hand side, for instance; they might team up well, I don't know. But no, not as Gardy's immediate replacement. And I agree with the comments that his being young doesn't preclude him from being considered old-school, if he views Getting After It as more important than talent for example.
  3. ashbury
    J.J. Gardyhire - first player/manager since Rose!
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    Having been reminded of his skirmish with another minor league manager, I am less enthused about him receiving an early promotion than before. I'd like to see him put in about 3 more years, without drama that reflects badly on him or his organization, before entrusting him with the keys to the dugout. "Fiery" may be good, "ticking time bomb" is not.
  5. ashbury
    I was in Houston in late July and took in a couple of games, and was amazed/disappointed that the city isn't getting behind a team that, while still losing, seemed fun to watch. Several exciting players, some good starting pitching, already on the major league team. I am virtually certain that the PA system was piping in cheers at appropriate moments, because it didn't seem possible the noise could have been generated by the number of fans I could see - but the roof was closed and maybe they do get enough echoes to get the sound level up by legitimate means, in which case playoff baseball could be rockin'. At any rate, Houston is IMO another cautionary tale for a front office that thinks the visibly-blow-it-up route is a good one for a rebuild.
  6. ashbury
    Conventional wisdom is that a winning season shows up in attendance the next year. That's what we see in their 2014 attendance. When the market goes that dead for that long, it may take longer to ramp up again. Maybe 2015 sees 2.5M? Cautionary tale for our own 4x90 loss team.
  7. ashbury
    Agreed, and that's not my objection. Actually I don't have a specific objection, except that almost nobody gets their first managerial job at age 58. Terry Ryan could probably explain why that is, and maybe finding the exceptional person is some kind of market inefficiency we should be exploiting. But since there are a lot of good candidates out there, I'm not inclined to buck the trend.
  8. ashbury
    Nice anecdote. Great to have on the staff. Not sure that it translates to being a manager. Their views might change the first time he has to tell them "No" and make it stick.
  9. ashbury
    Two outfielders signed for $20M+ through 2017 and 2019 respectively, with declining defensive abilities, belong in LA. For that kind of money you could be going after a couple of borderline-ace pitchers as FA this year or next.
  10. ashbury
    I might be the only TD poster whose hat isn't in the ring.
  11. ashbury
    Nobody over the age of 55, please.
  12. ashbury
    Probably the biggest tragedy in this whole sorry mess.
  13. ashbury
    That's the trick I always used to remember Albert Ienstien's name.
  14. ashbury
    Dodgers didn't want to re-sign Nolasco last year. Why would they want him now?
  15. ashbury
    Now do one for the Sam Deduno pitches that got past the catcher.
  16. ashbury
    Seems the machine pulled the string on Parker with that second pitch. Looked like only 97 MPH.
  17. ashbury
    "Jesus. I'm out." He stayed in there longer than I could have.
  18. ashbury
    The higher up in the organization, the more skills are needed. One reason I'm reluctant to see Terry Ryan go, even if I can name some faults, is that the GM position requires so many skills and our current guy doesn't have (IMO) a fatal flaw in any of them - the next person who sits in the chair will have a different collection of faults and it might not be clear that some of them are deal-breakers until too late. Being field manager is also complex, though IMO less so than the GM position, so I have similar concerns about trading Gardy's flaws for somebody else's. But at the coaching level, well, more than one attribute may be needed, but still the skills seem much less rare. Anderson may indeed still be a good coach, but if he is mistakenly fired his replacement is much less likely to flame out totally, than for the higher-up positions. It's thus less risky to simply go by results and say it's time to move on. I feel the same about any coaching position, if a pattern of failure is showing.
  19. ashbury
    I don't think Anderson is necessarily a "bad" pitching coach. But his job is to find answers and not enough answers have been found the past several seasons. I like Ryan and am OK with Gardy, but I think pitching coach is a weak spot that needs to be addressed.
  20. ashbury
    I missed that news item, and/or didn't recall such things in the past. Good to hear. With all the extra players, you need the extra babysitters too.
  21. ashbury
    In either case, I'm not looking for exact parallels. I'm looking for principles behind what a successful organization has been doing.
  22. ashbury
    When Bernier came into the game the score was already 10-3 and he came in to face a journeyman reliever having a bad season. Doug's going to play some innings, and these were not ones that would be terribly indicative of anything or particularly educational had Santana played them. Relative to the start Nunez is getting tonight, this one doesn't register, for me.
  23. ashbury
    Are coaches ever called up for September? Because I'd like to see what Rochester's pitching coach could do.
  24. ashbury
    You're asking the right questions and I don't know the answers. If you ever get a chance to interview Adam Wainright, you could ask him. 2006: 61 games 75 IP 2007: 32 games 202 IP Rigorous simulated innings between relief appearances his rookie year, is my guess, but purely that. Other Cardinal pitchers had less extreme situations. Lance Lynn in the bullpen for a while in 2011 and then a full SP load the next year, Shelby Miller in a short stint of relief in 2012 before full-time starting. But they don't always do it that way either, Michael Wacha started in his first 5 major league appearances. Unless the front office wants to divulge their secret sauce, you'd probably have to piece it together by interviewing pitchers one by one and see what emerged about their process and whether anything could be inferred as to the philosophy.
  25. ashbury
    I like how St Louis sometimes gets prospective starters' feet wet with some time in their major league bullpen, as much as a full season, and I would like to see some of that here too.
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