The latest ... which is coming out only in tiny trickles
What we have learned today is that this is NOT being done at the ownership level, that baseball operations has a major hand in it and appears to even be driving it. So I was wrong on that count. Frank McCourt is NOT usurping Ned Colletti's authority, despite what I implied on this blog last night. The other thing that I have been able to pin down is that one way or another Grady appears to be out. No way you can bring him back now, not after all this. What I can't figure out is why it's taking them so long to announce that.
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Ugh. Should I like it more or less if this is Colletti's idea vs. McCourt's? Either way, it has the smell of killing the wrong guy. Colletti, not Little, signed Juan Pierre to an awful contract that eventually dictated he would start in center. Colletti re-upped Nomar after an entire second half in which he hit a dreadful .229/.286/.408. Colletti blocked Matt Kemp by bringing in Luis Gonzalez. Colletti made bad bets on the likes of Randy Wolf and Jason Schmidt, both of whom had significant injury histories and/or were coming off surgery. Some of those moves were defensible, but collectively they ended up sinking the Dodgers' 2007 season.
Posted by: scareduck
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October 30, 2007 2:28 PM
God, what a mess! I am all for Grady going but he really didn't deserve to be treated this poorly. Another black mark for the Dodgers front office under McCourt.
Good move but handled terribly!
Posted by: NYDodgerFan | October 30, 2007 2:46 PM
I do not understand the "good move but handled terribly" thinking that seems to be eminating from a lot of Dodger fans (coming, perhaps, from Bill Plaschke's execrable column in today's Times). Is Torre notoriously good at developing young players? Is he an especially good in-game manager? Will he tackle Ned Colletti the next time he tries to sign an aging veteran who blocks a promising youngster?
Posted by: scareduck
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October 30, 2007 3:33 PM