The Mariners plan to interview current Red Sox consultant and former Angels GM Jerry Dipoto, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports on Twitter. Seattle recently parted with former GM Jack Zduriencik and is on the hunt for a replacement. Seattle appears likely to choose a baseball operations leader with prior experience in a general manager role, though it’s also said to be considering internal options.
Here are more notes on the front office and managerial changes expected to take place this fall and winter:
- Red Sox assistant GM Mike Hazen is a candidate for the Brewers’ general manager position, Rosenthal and colleague Jon Morosi report (Twitter links). Milwaukee has not yet begun a formal interview process, he adds. The Brewers say they’ll take their time in finding a new GM, but could be leaning toward a young, analytically-minded candidate.
- Outgoing Red Sox GM Ben Cherington, meanwhile, may not be in a rush to reclaim that position with a new team, according to another tweet from Rosenthal. Cherington has received interest from clubs in unspecified opportunities, and he’s “in listening mode” rather than actively pursuing another GM post.
- MLB.com’s Alden Gonzalez discusses the Angels’ GM search, which as recently reported is expected to move quickly. The club has stayed quiet on its thinking thus far, says Gonzalez, but it seems reasonably likely that it will look to go with a first-time GM from another organization. Gonzalez lists a wide number of theoretical candidates.
- Bob Nightengale of USA Today provides an overview of the actual and potential front office openings around the game. He breaks down the latest rumblings among all of the clubs that seem reasonably likely to pursue change.
I can’t believe anybody would hire Jerry Dipoto after he quit on his team in the middle of the season.
You’d rather have had him stay and butt heads with Scioscia all season?
The team did better after he left.
Scoscia had reasons for doing what he did. The manager runs the team on the field, not the FO.
The team isn’t exactly competing for any playoff spot right now. When you as a GM have no vote of confidence from your owner, and the manager always gets his way, you’d have good reason to call it quits too. He could do very well in Seattle.
Of course he had no confidence from the owner.
The owner has a GM and he has a manager. The manager manages the players on the field.
Epstein/Hoyer give Madden a lot of stats every day. If Maddon elects not to use some, have you ever heard of Epstein/Hoyer going around his back directly to the players?
Scioscia has been using stats since his first day as Angels manager. Every company I ever worked for had stats up the kazoo, and people sat in meetings arguing over what they meant and what actions individual departments of the company should take. The GM surely didn’t come down and tell us to use some different stats he’d run off. People have the right to run their department. If they don’t, they lose control of the people that report to them.
I won’t argue there, because you have good points. I will say though, if the GM and manager don’t get along, no matter who is in the wrong/right, then you won’t have a cohesive unit on the field. You need a cohesive unit to get the job done, and Anaheim seems to be a rather difficult place for a GM to work.
Nonsense. Stat-media attack.
Stoneman worked with Scoscia for 8 years. They were competitive almost every year and won a championship. Reagins was a disaster as GM. That’s on him. DiPoto wanted Scoscia to be a corporate middle manager that did what he was told. Some franchises run that way. The Angels don’t.
The Angles will find a good GM. This Scoscia bunk is overblown. He’s one of the best managers in MLB. If Artie suddenly canned him, his agent would be fielding offers from a least half-a-dozen quality franchises within a day, more then of few of which would fire their current manager to get him.
I didn’t say anything about Scoscia though. I was talking in general. It’s not anything more than the truth. You have to get along with one another to achieve your ultimate goal in baseball. One championship in 20 years isn’t exactly exciting, but again, you have good points. All I am trying to say is that the future Anaheim GM will have his hands full should he have issue with the manager.
OK.
Please name me who it is in that organization does not get along with others to the point that it hurts the franchise.
Dipoto and Scoscia did not get along. That did hurt the team, they are just one game above .500. They nose dived since the all-star break. Seattle was in the same boat during Wedges tenure. The Hamilton saga also didn’t help matters.
“Dipoto and Scoscia did not get along.”
OK, so you didn’t bring up DiPoto and now you’re bringing up DiPoto. Apparently people in the Angels organization aren’t having problems with one another with DiPoto gone, so your statement that you were “talking the truth” as to the innerworkings of the Angel organization appears to be flawed.
FYI – I have a very low regard for Jerry DiPoto. I know of very few businesses that would have put up with what he did that became public. I’m curious what other things were done that were not made public.
As for one championship in the 16 years since Scoscia managed – you want to name me 10 teams that won more? 5? Dodgers haven’t won one since ’88 – 27 years. There are 30 teams in the majors. It’s not easy to win a championship.
The Giants won 3 in the past 5 years, the Red Sox have won two, the Yankees have won two since 2000, the Cardinals are perennial world series contenders, with Leyland as manager, Detroit became perennial contenders,, the D-backs have done almost as much as a young team compared to Scoscia with LA. When you have people who are on the same page, things get done.
Eh, why don’t you flip it and name how hard it is for a manager to reach a ws? Since 2002, Scoscia reached it once, 15-16 other managers have done the same thing. And many of those more than once and many of that group are currently out of a job, on the hot seat or no longer with that team.
And all of them did it more recently.