BREAKING NEWS- Duquette Resigns

[rolliefingers]

With the right players even I could be a great hitting coach. We don't need a guy wo can polish a diamond. We need someone who can take a chunk of coal and create a diamond out of it.

Um, how about we just get some better players?

[JTrea81]

You have to wonder where we would be and the Red Sox would be if they hired Flanagan instead of Epstein and we hired somebody else.

These were the other interviews:

Angelos also interviewed Detroit Tigers assistant GM Al Avila, Arizona Diamondbacks assistant GM Sandy Johnson, former Chicago White Sox GM Ron Schueler, Seattle Mariners vice president of scouting and player development Roger Jongewaard, and Milwaukee Brewers special assignment scout David Wilder.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2002/12/04/orioles021204.html#skip300x250

Avila might have been a great choice:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/hispanichistory/news/story?id=2607258

[Rockbird]

With the right players even I could be a great hitting coach. We don't need a guy wo can polish a diamond. We need someone who can take a chunk of coal and create a diamond out of it.

Seriously. I can't believe people are defending Crowley's negative influence on our offense by saying "well, Markakis has done well!" Well no kidding! He's Nick Markakis! He's really good! We need to make our average (of which we have a lot of) hitters better, more patient and more productive.

[clapdiddy]

I think that Crowley is not a great hitting coach, but I think we need to go after better players. A guy like Millar knows how to work a count and get on base. Crowley didn't change his hitting style.

We need to stop picking up guys like Payton and Patterson.

[Mackus]

Jordan is in charge of this. And even so, it's not like the O's system is pumping out anywhere near the same level of talent that other teams (many in the playoffs this year!) have been. Even if Flanagan was doing a wonderful job with minors his management of the major league roster has been awful.

Flanny was in charge of hirinig Jordan. And Dave Stockstill. He clearly has a good eye for finding people who know the minor leagues. He's screwed up the major league aspect for the most part, but he's done a real good job at finding minor league personnel who do a good job of finding talent. Thats an important job, and I'd like to see him continue to do that.

[Rockbird]

Flanny was in charge of hirinig Jordan. And Dave Stockstill. He clearly has a good eye for finding people who know the minor leagues. He's screwed up the major league aspect for the most part, but he's done a real good job at finding minor league personnel who do a good job of finding talent. Thats an important job, and I'd like to see him continue to do that.

Fine, make him the Scouting Director for Minor League Scouts if such a thing exists. Just get him away from our 40 man roster!

[rolliefingers]

Seriously. I can't believe people are defending Crowley's negative influence on our offense by saying "well, Markakis has done well!" Well no kidding! He's Nick Markakis! He's really good! We need to make our average (of which we have a lot of) hitters better, more patient and more productive.

Well, I'm not so sure that a HC has that much influence over an ML player's development.

Millar, Roberts and Markakis are all patient hitters, and each has worked with Crowley for at least two years. Each was a patient hitter before they got here, and each still is.

Patterson and Payton were both legendary hackers before they came here, and they still are.

Look, I'd love to have a new hitting coach - one who uses taser shocks on a player's ankles whenever he swings at a pitch out of the zone - but the fact is that plate discipline, like most skills in life, is easier to teach to the youngest students.

I used to be the Captain of the Fire Crowley Express, trust me. But now I just don't care. He's only the tip of the iceberg. We need to draft players who already have good plate discipline (along with lots of other skills, natch), AND hire coaches who preach it at every level.

Crowley is only a tiny part of the problem. The ORGANIZATION is the problem.

[JTrea81]

Seriously. I can't believe people are defending Crowley's negative influence on our offense by saying "well, Markakis has done well!" Well no kidding! He's Nick Markakis! He's really good! We need to make our average (of which we have a lot of) hitters better, more patient and more productive.

Exactly, and Markakis is still somewhat too aggressive in the batter's box. I think he could be a superstar given the right hitting coach.

[geschinger]

You have to wonder where we would be and the Red Sox would be if they hired Flanagan instead of Epstein and we hired somebody else.

The Red Sox would probably be fine. While Theo has done a lot of good things he's also made a lot of mistakes that would be crippling if he didn't have the extra 40-50m to work with that he has in Boston.

[Mark Carver]

Now they should reassign Flanagan & leave McPhail alone to do his work.

You still need at least 1 more person to be hired on as an Asst GM... the Red Sox have 2 Assistants for Theo Epstein. Running a ML ballclub these days are not a 1 man job.

[Mark Carver]

When does the "gathering of information" stop and the work begin? Gathering information is being tossed around now just as much as "the process" was tossed around the past few years...

I am going to miss Duquette's frankness. He always seemed to tell it how it was, and didn't always tote the company line. It was refreshing to hear sometimes.

There have been some minor league changes, but not much gets done until after the World Series.

[Wilshade]

Yeah, it is traditional to wait until after the Series to make big moves. I kind of view what has happned in the last week as the small "tremors" leading up to the big quake. The Big One is comin'.

[Joe'sO's]

There's really very little difference between Beattie,Flanagan and Duquette.None of them really have a grasp on how to build a team. How many times did they sign repetitive guys? We need someone who's agressive like the Yanks,BoSox and Indians among others and have a better grasp on development. The 3 I mentioned were all laid back and depended on empty bromides to get by rather than results.We also need someone who's not afraid to make trades. We've blown DCab's value when it was high. It would have been a no brainer to me to move this guy a long time ago.Tejada should have been gone when he mouthed off in the off season a couple years ago.Then he wouldn't talk to Perlozzo on the phone?? No way you put up with that crap,it makes it hard to manage the ret of the guys who see a double standard. It's about time this whole damn thing gets blown up.

[bej6789]

who do you guys think will be the guy mcphail brings in? After reading the updated article in the sun, it sounds like it's going to be someone who's #2 in command. Someone as Mcphail put it who's going to be his "eyes and ears" while on the road for major and minor leagues. Sounds like a #2 in command, or a real GM? Any ideas?

[blahblah]

Isn't DePodesta still out there after the Dodgers replaced him? Or did he go back to the A's?

Just let a boy dream for a night...

Elliot