Sodo Oh No

Heh, I really should finish surfing before I post. The excellent Management By Baseball blog has an entry on Bivasi's early run as the Mariners' GM. He can't figure out what is going on either:

He's been hyperactive in the trade and signing area since he was hired six weeks ago. Not a single one of the deals seem to make sense, and the pattern clearly follows none of the old or new team development models observers recognize, including:

Sign a bunch of recognizeable names,

Use sabermetric theories

Build for power

Build for pitching and defense

Use succession planning to bring in two very young players per season & let the veterans break them in

Replace your lowest/most disappointing performers with those who have a chance to be your highest

anything else recognizable.

This pretty much echos the blogsphere's feeling on the matter.

I've added this blog to the sidebar here and I highly recomend it.

posted by Mike @ 6:48 PM