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#Post#: 29837--------------------------------------------------
Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: shasson Date: August 24, 2011, 10:48 pm
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Not sure if this has been discussed here, but Ricketts and
Friedman share a background in finance. Per wikipedia on
Friedman, "Friedman was then an analyst with Bear Stearns from
1999–2002, and then was an associate at MidMark Capital, a
private equity firm, from 2002-04." And Ricketts, of course,
"Thomas S. "Tom" Ricketts is chairman of the Chicago Cubs, and
the chief executive officer of Incapital LLC, a Chicago
investment bank that packages corporate bonds for retail
investors. "
Not sure if that matters, but it does mean they probably value
some similar evaluative tools, but in terms if finance &
investment, and baseball.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: StrikeZone Date: August 25, 2011, 12:53 am
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Brian Cashman and Andrew Friedman are both in the last year of
their contracts.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: BullingersEars Date: August 25, 2011, 7:15 am
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Ned Colletti?
HTML http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/7261934-417/friedman-colletti-cashman-on-ricketts-radar.html
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: BullingersEars Date: August 25, 2011, 7:47 am
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Just adding the New York perspective, I feel like Cashman would
be more than willing to leave the Yankees for the right
position. His relationship with the Steinbrenner kids has been
very tenuous. Things seemed to peak when the Steinbrenner's
forced the huge $$$ signing of setup man Rafael Soriano. In
one of the more bizarre things I've seen, Cashman came out and
said it wasn't his idea, and he thought it was a bad move.
Cashman is used to the big budget, but has shown the propensity
to hold onto young talent over the last few years, even to the
owner's dismay.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: brjones Date: August 25, 2011, 8:27 am
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Colletti would be a disaster. A less personable version of Jim
Hendry is the last thing the Cubs need.
That article also talks about Ryne Sandberg being willing to
come back to the organization now that Hendry is gone. I find
it interesting that Sandberg seems to be the only guy in
baseball who can't get along with Jim Hendry. I don't know if
that's a personality trait I'd want in a manager...if his
ego/sense of entitlement about the manager's job is so big that
he can't get along with one of the most popular guys
(personality wise) in professional baseball, that doesn't give
me much hope that he'd be successful at managing the people side
of a major league team.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: Ron Date: August 25, 2011, 9:56 am
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"While Colletti is viewed by many as cut from similar
old-school-GM cloth as Jim Hendry, one attraction to him, a
source said, is the likelihood he would try to bring Ryne
Sandberg back to the organization as the Cubs’ manager. Sandberg
has told those close to him that with Hendry out, he wouldn’t
hesitate to return to the Cubs." (from the Sun Times article)
That strikes me as rather bizarre reasoning. I can't imagine
that Ricketts has a major consideration in hiring his GM whether
or not he's likely to bring Sandberg back. In any event, it
wouldn't take Colletti to do that.
"Another long-odds scenario Ricketts has talked about this week,
according to sources, is trying to woo New York Yankees GM Brian
Cashman and getting a package deal for Cashman and managerJoe
Girardi." (also from that article)
Girardi has two years left on his contract after this season.
Why on earth would the Steinbrenners want to release him from
that, particularly at the same time as they are having to
replace their GM?
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: craig Date: August 25, 2011, 10:31 am
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I don't know any of these guys, of course. I think Bullinger's
idea is interesting, that Cashman might be happy to get a fresh
start with different ownership and a different media market. Of
course, I have zero idea whether or not Cashman is actually any
good as a GM, or would help the Cubs. He inherited a bunch of
young stars and had a limitless payroll. I have no idea how
he'd do if he came into a deal where he inherited Tyler Colvin,
Tony Campana, Casey Coleman, and Randy Wells, that's not quite
Jeter, Mariano, Posada, and Bernie Williams. And with a $125
payroll instead of $203, that could be a little different.
Might be different without the ability to have a dozen starters
with averages salary of $14, and then still have $35 million
left to fill out the rest of the roster.
Friedman obviously seems like the guy. He's young, energetic,
really smart, and has been enormously successful within very
limited resources at Tampa. If he was interested, how could you
not be interested in a guy like that? Who knows whether he's
interested, good chance he isn't. But certainly worth calling
and asking. Maybe he's after the Yankees job instead?
Colletti, I don't get that at all. He's been around a long
time, and his Dodgers are only a couple of games better than the
Cubs. I don't get how he'd be the guy. Not sure how much all
the McCourt stuff may have limited him, though.
For a while Dodgers seemed to have a really productive
draft-and-developement system going, but I think they've been on
a very low-budget procurement situation for some time. Perhaps
if he did come, and got the Ricketts procurement budget, and
brought over some of the best scouts, so that Wilken ended up
with the better half of the Dodger scouts and the better half of
the Cub scouts, maybe you'd end up with a stellar scouting
staff, I don't know.
But the Suntimes notion that you'd hire Colletti because he'd
give you a 5-day PR boost by hiring Sandberg, that is absurd to
the extreme. Sandberg's status as a player won't help much as
soon as the team dips below .500 next season.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: CurtOne Date: August 25, 2011, 11:00 am
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If Sandberg felt he didn't get a real shot, I could understand
that logic. If Sandberg felt that Hendry was so buddy buddy
with the players that it effected his decisions about them, I
could understand that logic.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: brjones Date: August 25, 2011, 11:11 am
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If Sandberg felt like he didn't get a real shot, then that tells
me that his ego or sense of entitlement is out of control. At
least IMO. Very few managers are in the major leagues after 4
years of minor league managing experience and no major or minor
league coaching experience. If it takes less time than that,
it's usually someone who had been pegged as a future manager
since he was a 24 year old rookie player (Girardi, Scioscia).
I only know what's in the press, obviously...so maybe there was
more behind the scenes. But I think it's probably easier to
argue that Sandberg didn't even deserve the token interview he
got than it is to argue they didn't give him enough
consideration. Most managers with 4 years experience (who had
also never shown serious interest in coaching before he got his
first managing job) wouldn't even get a sniff from a major
league team.
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Re: Next GM for the Cubs
By: Ron Date: August 25, 2011, 11:30 am
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Sandberg seems like a very unusual, perhaps even unique, case.
He's a Hall of Famer whose entire major league career was with
the Cubs, and someone who is known for his devotion to "playing
the game the right way." How may HOFers have ever managed in
the minors, for one year, much less four? I have no idea.
Hendry told him to go get minor league managing experience in
order to prove he could manage. And his record managing in the
minor leagues has been very good, at least, it seems to me. If
he was told, as one interview said, that he wasn't even in the
top several candidates being seriously considered, from his
point of view, I can see why he would not only be disappointed,
but perhaps feel a bit disrespected.
Hendry has always been someone who valued lots of experience.
Maybe four years in the minor leagues just didn't rate high
enough for serious considerations, when compared to guys with
major league experience and even Quade who had lots more years
in the managing and coaching trenches than Sandberg.
Who knows what kind of manager he really is, or that he would be
in the major leagues. And he hasn't coached at the major league
level. Maybe there were specific, performance based reasons
Hendry didn't consider him.
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