Comments on: The General Manager Gap

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By: Chipmaker

Chipmaker — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:09:40 +0000

It’s so obvious. As with pitching, expansion has diluted the pool of smart GMs. I’ve said this for years. (I don’t really believe it, but it’s every bit as plausible as the expansion-has-diluted-the-pitching-ranks position.)

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:57:45 +0000

Um, it’s like, really complicated Mike. Rather than take the time to explain it to you, I’m just going to change it back to your pedestrian “two” spelling so as not to confuse you or anything . . .

By: Mike Treder

Mike Treder — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:51:50 +0000

Craig, what are “too pools”? Overly ostentatious swimming holes?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:06:35 +0000

The best GM is yours; the worst GM is mine.
They’re like ex-wives that way.

By: Wooden U. Lykteneau

Wooden U. Lykteneau — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:37:44 +0000

Fear not, intercession is over in three weeks and these sports-management students will be back in school.

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:08:35 +0000

Always a fun subject to discuss, especially as Bay Area GM’s are presented at both ends of the spectrum. I’ve said before in Craig’s previous blog that I think Sabean takes too much blame for the managing owner’s interference. The Bonds years distorted every signing in that Bonds “temperament” necessitated signing old pros who could do their jobs professionally while pretending to ignore the carnival next door. Some of those guys were better than others, but the house was packed every night and the privately funded mortgage got paid. With Bonds gone we’ll have a better idea of Sabean comparatively, and although the results aren’t totally clear yet he doesn’t belong in the same group as Ed Wade and Dayton Moore. Maybe right next to that group.
Beane’s another story. I do believe he’s very good at what he does, but a lot of the work he does started with Sandy Alderson and the style and emphasis on player evaluation and value that Alderson pioneered. The search for value at the root of “Moneyball” continues, but the AL in general is far better at balancing scouting and numerical assessment.
Finally, I can’t believe that Pat Gillick was left out of the discussion. I know he’s not a current GM, but really, was anyone better in the recent past?

By: Joey B

Joey B — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:01:53 +0000

I saw the article yesterday and didn’t find much use for it. The first problem is using Jack Z. He only took over this year, and one year’s worth of moves is rather meaningless for a l/t trend. And it also brings to mind that his predeccessor might’ve been the worst GM in recent history.
And the rankings of the GMs is subjective. Colletti and Sabean have pulled bone-headed moves in the past, but both have developed top notch minor league systems. I’m really not seeing why he considers Cashman, Shapiro and Byrnes as being in the elite, and those two guys as basement dwellers.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:08:04 +0000

I wonder, since Craig attracts such a reef colony of sabremetrics types and statistics freaks from the MTSS (Mark Twain Sucks Society): assuming that the luchre largesse in the AL is responsible for all these great ballplayers hauling their mercenary derrieres over there, what proportion of them stay in the AL once either their initial contracts are up or they are traded during their initial contract periods? In other words, can one plot a baseball-talent NL-to-AL "brain drain" (although clearly that is not the organ which most succinctly characterizes the phenomenon, but we can't denote the pair of organs which does because, as Craig is so fond of pointing out, this is a family site)? The results would be kinda interesting, though we would have to set up a control group to keep the tar-pit effect of the DH from skewing the stats.