Running 2015-2016 Hot Stove League Thread

Tough day at the office.

 

Looks like Dave Roberts is getting a serious look from the Dodgers:

Dodgers, with proud history of diversity, could pick Dave Roberts as manager

 

Why wouldn't Kapler be the Dodgers first minority manager?

 

Glenn Hoffman was/is Jewish, too, I believe.

 

Greinke is still chasing a World Series ring, maybe he will sign with the Royals for cheap. He can move back in with George Brett to cut costs.

 

Or Chicago.

 

All I've heard is that Dusty Baker ruins pitchers. WATCH OUT STRASBURG AND SCHERZER!!!! CLUTCH YOUR LIGAMENTS !!!

This, from Kilgore today:

Baker will bring his maligned reputation to Washington. In many circles, Baker is considered a dinosaur with no handle on modern analysis and a menace to young pitchers. The former may be true but overrated, and the latter is false and overblown.....

Baker often draws blame for damaging the careers of Cubs pitchers Mark Prior and Kerry Wood by overusing them. First, the safest bet in baseball is pointing at a young pitcher and declaring, “He will break.” Baker’s handling may have played a role in their truncated careers; they might have doomed no matter what happened.

Baker rode Wood especially hard – he threw 120 pitches 13 times in the 2003 season. But as a 2011 study by Baseball Prospectus showed, Baker left the practice in Chicago. With Cincinnati, Baker used his starters past 120 pitches less than league average.

In 2008, Baker took over the Reds and assumed a 22-year-old pitching prospect named Johnny Cueto. Under Baker, Cueto developed into an ace and started at least 30 games five times. He will enter free agency healthy. If you want to blame Baker for Wood and Prior, credit him for Cueto, and remember that Cueto is the more recent, more relevant example.

 

I like Kilgore and enjoy reading him. But, he's going to be covering the Nationals at least as long as Baker will be the manager, isn't this a column to be taken with a few grains of salt. Don't want to piss Dusty off before his 1st press conference.

Blame Rizzo for being so unimaginative that Black and Baker were your top 2 candidates.

 

Kilgore doesn't cover the Nationals.

You're the only person I've heard who said the Nats didn't have two good candidates in Black and Baker. Which is about right.

 

This should help offset the Dusty hire:

 

Offset. Yeah. Offset.