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I think the most important thing to the Orioles or any organization is the development of pitching. If that means Adair gets replaced, that's fine. DD is the boss, Buck is not. Period.

The problem is timing. I just don't see how this can work. DD needed to fire Adair weeks ago if he wanted to keep Peterson by making him the new pitching coach. Now, it's too difficult for Peterson to take the O's pitching job. Like, what if DD says to Peterson, "if I made you pitching coach, would you stay?" How could Peterson say yes knowing that he's getting a guy fired who did a perfectly acceptable job. Peterson has too much respect for Adair to do that, even if they don't agree on everything.

Our best hope is that Peterson could be happy being a well-paid Pitching Coordinator. I don't feel good about this.

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I don't understand why so many people here assume Peterson is the only person capable of implementing a biomechanical program. He did an excellent job with our system, but try to remember that it was Duquette who put Peterson in place and I strongly doubt if we revert back to the way things were before Peterson's arrival.

Peterson was a tool of Duquette's vision, not vice-versa.

Duquette brought on Peterson because Peterson's philosophy made sense, was innovative, and could help the Orioles. He didn't hire Peterson to implement Duquette's biomechanical philosophies. My assumption was that he was, more-or-less, buying a canned, off-the-shelf pitching system with the hiring of Peterson.

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I think the most important thing to the Orioles or any organization is the development of pitching. If that means Adair gets replaced, that's fine. DD is the boss, Buck is not. Period.

The problem is timing. I just don't see how this can work. DD needed to fire Adair weeks ago if he wanted to keep Peterson by making him the new pitching coach. Now, it's too difficult for Peterson to take the O's pitching job. Like, what if DD says to Peterson, "if I made you pitching coach, would you stay?" How could Peterson say yes knowing that he's getting a guy fired who did a perfectly acceptable job. Peterson has too much respect for Adair to do that, even if they don't agree on everything.

Our best hope is that Peterson could be happy being a well-paid Pitching Coordinator. I don't feel good about this.

Likewise, how do you fire Adair without first knowing that Peterson would replace him. I think that Peterson was going on this Boston interview no matter what the O's offered him. That's just the reality of the situation. He and Farrell have an unbreakable bro-mance. There isn't much we can do about it... but that wouldn't stop me from trying.

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I think the most important thing to the Orioles or any organization is the development of pitching. If that means Adair gets replaced, that's fine. DD is the boss, Buck is not. Period.

The problem is timing. I just don't see how this can work. DD needed to fire Adair weeks ago if he wanted to keep Peterson by making him the new pitching coach. Now, it's too difficult for Peterson to take the O's pitching job. Like, what if DD says to Peterson, "if I made you pitching coach, would you stay?" How could Peterson say yes knowing that he's getting a guy fired who did a perfectly acceptable job. Peterson has too much respect for Adair to do that, even if they don't agree on everything.

Our best hope is that Peterson could be happy being a well-paid Pitching Coordinator. I don't feel good about this.

So far as hierarchy goes yes, DD is Buck's "boss", but he came in after Buck was here and they have a close working relationship. He isn't going to start making decisions arbitrarily without any input from his manager especially when it comes to firinig his PC. Whether it was two weeks ago or two months would not have mattered.

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I would think that if Duquette and Showalter really believe that Peterson made a huge difference and is essential to the future success of Oriole's pitching, then they will make a huge financial offer to keep him. Whether or not he takes it is Peterson's decision.

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So far that tells me nothing. Alan Dunn left the O's to take the job at LSU in June of 2011. So he was minor league pitching instructor from Feb - June of 2011. Before that he was the O's bullpen instructor. Who followed Dunn?

OAlan Dunn left the Orioles to take the job at LSU in June of 2011, and one year, later Kevin Gausman left LSU to take the job with the Orioles. :laughlol:

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So far that tells me nothing. Alan Dunn left the O's to take the job at LSU in June of 2011. So he was minor league pitching instructor from Feb - June of 2011. Before that he was the O's bullpen instructor. Who followed Dunn?

From what I gather, they didnt fill the opening until Peterson. Im guessing, since it was well into the season, they didnt officially name anyone to that title. Im guessing.

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