John Schuerholz is stepping down as the Braves GM.
Wow. I need time to digest this.
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6 comments:
Gawd, I hope the Braves aren't in for a Kansas City-like era of ineptness now that he is gone.
My fear is that Time Warner looked at the Braves payroll, then looked at the Indians, Rockies and D-Backs and decided that the Braves need to cut payroll even more than before. I hope that isn't what pushed Schuerholz out. The fact that he is staying around as president makes me think it might less dramatic than all this.
When I was in Houston, the Astros changed GMs and everything went downhill. Bad signings, bad trades, bad baseball. I hope I'm not bringing some type of baseball mismanagement cloud with me back to the South.
love the kansas state analogy. what's michael bishop doing these days? i don't know if this is a big deal or not. i'm not sure what a team president does. if he oversees the gm, then the bravos should be fine. i think scherholz is pushing 70, so maybe he's tired of the grind. it won't be long until you lose both he and cox. i hate the braves but that is the most underrated duo in baseball.
oops, you said kansas city. that makes more sense, but k-state made me laugh.
I agree about Cox being underrated for sure. People always throw out the "he didn't win in the playoffs" dismissal, like winning 4 of 7 games is a better achievement than winning 100 out of 162. And he did win a championship in 1995, lost another in the best World Series ever (1991 vs. Twins) and lost three more to loaded Blue Jays and Yankees squads.
He is like the Marv Levy of baseball, except he actually has a ring.
I think Schuerholz might be a bit overrated, but only because I harp on the bad moves more than most. It kills me to think about Jason Schmidt or Jermaine Dye being let go and the Jason Marquis & Adam Wainwright for JD Drew trade was not his finest moment. Of course, for all of those there are a bunch of Fred McGriff and Mark Teixeira deals that prove his greatness.
I tend to side with the Bobby Cox detractors. I saw him make too many dumb moves in the playoffs. I could have won 100 games a year with the pitching rotations he had (every fourth day: batting 9th and pitching Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz). It's sort of the same story with Torre. Is it really his fault that the Yanks haven't won a World Series since 2000? Maybe not this year, I'd lay the blame on Cashman for '07, but again, I think just about anyone else would have been able to pull out at least one championship in the last seven years with those Yankee line-ups.
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