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Redskins Rick Hangout Grand Counsel

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16 hours ago, clapdiddy said:

I think I'm ready for a change in manager.   I wouldn't be upset with Buck, but I think we need a change.  

What scares the heck out of me, is getting somebody worse.

Buck is far from perfect, but pretty good.

Too many castoffs managers out there, they say, it takes most managers 2 or 3 firings for them to really learn the job and perform it well.

We had a few of managers come through here before Buck, that made me cringe a little.

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5 hours ago, Satyr3206 said:

I don't want this to sound wrong so take it with a grain of salt. Analytics are stats. Most statistically oriented GM's have never played the game. There has to be a middle ground.

That's simply not a true statement. I'd say about 75% of the current GMs have played baseball at some level (high school, college, minors, majors, etc.). And that's probably a conservative estimate. 

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9 minutes ago, Redskins Rick said:

What scares the heck out of me, is getting somebody worse.

Buck is far from perfect, but pretty good.

Too many castoffs managers out there, they say, it takes most managers 2 or 3 firings for them to really learn the job and perform it well.

We had a few of managers come through here before Buck, that made me cringe a little.

They don't need a cast off. They need new blood. They should follow the lead of the Yankees, Phillies, and Red Sox and give a young hungry candidate a chance. Let the manager grow with the team. 

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3 minutes ago, wildbillhiccup said:

That's simply not a true statement. I'd say about 75% of the current GMs have played baseball at some level (high school, college, minors, majors, etc.). And that's probably a conservative estimate. 

I don't think so but I'll look.

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Just now, wildbillhiccup said:

They don't need a cast off. They need new blood. They should follow the lead of the Yankees, Phillies, and Red Sox and give a young hungry candidate a chance. Let the manager grow with the team. 

Most new managers, dont do well out of the gate, unless they already have a team built for them.

It takes getting fired and self assessment to figure out your faults and correct them, and sometimes more than once.

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13 minutes ago, wildbillhiccup said:

That's simply not a true statement. I'd say about 75% of the current GMs have played baseball at some level (high school, college, minors, majors, etc.). And that's probably a conservative estimate. 

Or Little League.

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I'm ready for a fresh new start at both spots.  A new era calls for a new regime.  We're starting a rebuild and revitalizing a stagnant organization, and what better way to do that than to hire a dynamic new "GM"?  There are strong candidates available right now, and my hope would be that we could convince them that the ways of Peter Angelos are in the past and that they'd be given full autonomy to remake the organization. 

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I would like DD to stay. I personally think the new GM's are a bunch of bean counting, stat guys. You can not scout like that. Or run a Franchise like that. You might as well get a bunch of guys that read Baseball America all the time. It's about the players. And that is not all apparent on a stat sheet. Ever.

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4 hours ago, Satyr3206 said:

If some 35 year old GM told me something about how I played, and he never put a jock on. That would be an interesting conversation, to say the least.

Whether you like it or not, some of the best GMs currently and in the past years "have never put a jock on." 

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