Front Office Moves

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Mets promoted Rudy Terrasas to the position of amateur scouting director from his prior role as assistant to Russ Bove, who held the job last year. Terrasas spent 16 years with the Texas Rangers, working with Minaya during his time there. Bove will serve as a major league scout.

[Elster88]

This is fucking terrible. How could they promote a 16-year vet, when there are plenty of youngsters available who could grow into the job? Can we PLEASE give one of the rookies a chance instead of going with the sexy name from another organization? All this gets us is a day on the back pages of the papers and more bucks in Fred's pockets. You are all gutless, brainless fools if you think this move will work out.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

LOL Elster

[Frayed Knot]

Newsday is reporting that Brian Cashman will re-up for a 3-year stint in da Bronx.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Cashman is a glutton for punishment.

[Frayed Knot]

Meanwhile up in Boston, young Theo is apparantly balking at the Sawx attempts to sign him to an extension by holding out for a bundle.

[Frayed Knot]

Dodgers have called a 5PM news conference amid rumors that 'Moneyball' baby Paul DePodesta is out as GM.

[Valadius]

He is indeed out as GM.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Frayed Knot wrote: Dodgers have called a 5PM news conference amid rumors that 'Moneyball' baby Paul DePodesta is out as GM.

Is it me, or is this yet another example of MLB's systematic destruction of the LA Dodgers since the O'Malley's left?

1) They are sold to the guy who owns the broadcast rights to MLB who decided to start doing things half cheap (getting rid of Mike Piazza) and half stupid overblown contracts (Kevin Brown, Darren Driefort)

2) Dodgers are then sold to a guy WITH NO ASSETS! Is MLB kidding? Are they trying to leave the market, because Moreno supposedly was told not to do anything with the Angels, and then he completely dicked over MLB and signed Vlad Guerrero

3) They bring in a young guy in DePodesta thinking they have the next Billy Beane/Theo Epstein, only you can't make fliet mingon out of rump roast! And it completely hurts the cause when both Charles Johnson and Randy Johnson veto deals after he made a deal that set up both deals (a fact lost in the media's bashing of the LoDuca trade) To paraphrase Sonny Coreleone, DePodesta came out with just his dick in his hands!

So it would see that MLB is trying to completely dismantle one of its flagship franchises

Steve

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Raw deal for DePodesta. He never got to name his own manager, and the one he had couldn't keep the clubhouse together. Meantime he lost several guys to injury: It;s not as if Drew, Bradley & Gagne suck.

Also, looks like Lasorda has McCourt's ear. Could grease the skids for a Bobby V/Orel Hershiser combo.

[Elster88]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: It;s not as if Drew, Bradley & Gagne suck.

MATSUI SUCKS!!!!













Shit, sorry. Wrong thread. I'm just on autopilot here.
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[Valadius]

What would Bobby V do if HE were the new GM?

That would make a great TV show.

[nymr83]

] MATSUI SUCKS!!!! Shit, sorry. Wrong thread. I'm just on autopilot here.

just make it your sig quote, it saved me from having to repeat it :wink:


Depodesta really was given the short end of the stick here though, a GM needs to be given AT LEAST 4 years in my opinion unless he does something really stupid, and Depodesta didn't do anything stupid, all his bad contracts were the previous regime's leftovers.

[Guest rpackrat]

He wins the division one year and has a bad year the other. Firing him seems very premature.

[nymr83]

jd drew is an injury risk fine, but milton bradley and eric gagne getting hurt like that isn't something you shoulf forsee, they're still stuck with bad contracts from the old GM, and Depodesta should be commended for not trying to hard to re-sign Adrian Beltre who had a career year in 2004 and got too much money from Seattle, it is often hard to walk away from guys like that but the dodgers did the right thing.
Minaya has done well so far (imo) so i'm not advocating we get rid of him, but i hope Depodesta is given another shot again somewhere.

[metirish]

Yeah DePodesta looks like he got a dry rub on this, something else has too be up though IMO, maybe McCourt has been talking to another GM and intends to hire him?..the very fact that he didn't pay Beltre shows he's smart, although the LoDuca deal still stings in LA,and can you really blame the GM for club house chemistry?

[Valadius]

The kind of person DePodesta is, he wouldn't put any faith in clubhouse chemistry. So you could blame him.

[nymr83]

teams have "hated each other" and won before.
the only people i can blame for bad "clubhouse chemistry" are the players themselves, or maybe you can say its the manager's job to "keep the clubhouse together." either way Depodesta wasn't there long enough to choose the players or the manager in that clubhouse so any chemistry problems arent his fault.

[Theoldmole]

The Boys of Summer didn't like each other all that much. I don't believe there was a real buddy factor on our beloved '86 Mets. The great Oakland A's teams hated each other. But my my favorite was the much-heralded Los Angeles Dodger (the words still stick in my craw) infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey, together for a record-breaking eight years. When they were finally broken up (Lopes traded), scribes asking for sentimental comments from the four were sadly disappointed. The comments were more along the lines of "we never liked each other all that much."


But that doesn't exactly discount "clubhouse chemistry" as important. You can not like someone and still work well with him.

[MFS62]

TheOldMole wrote: Los Angeles Dodger (the words still stick in my craw)

Mole, that's why since those teams were stolen from us, I just refer to those teams by their city names. The Nicknames forever will belong East of the Hudson River.

And, speaking of that thievery, about DePodesta, He didn't do nearly enough to destroy that franchise to suit me.

Maybe if he could've planted C-4 in a primary fault line and started The Big One....

But who's bitter?

Later

[Theoldmole]

MF -- me too. The Dodgers were that team from Bedford Avenue.