Re: Baseball managers are vastly overrated
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Managers are overrated, but you can't put a nerd (no offense, Nate; I fall into this category as well) into the clubhouse and have him running a group of ballplayers who have been indoctrinated to believe a lot of total [censored]. You need someone who can communicate with them on their level to gain any modicum of respect.
Beyond that, yeah, there's not much managers have to do. Hiring any ex-ballplayer who will get respect is good enough; ensuring that they don't do stupid [censored] like bat Juan Pierre leadoff is a bonus.
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so, we really need a respected ex-ballplayer to talk to the team and a puppet master who knows things and talks to the ex-ballplayer through an ear piece
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Beane would do this with Geren if it wasn't illegal for the GM to be in the dugout in any way, shape, or form.
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