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Originally Posted by BadluckinOOTP
Did Billy Beane get replaced by this guy? |
Yes? No? Could be worse, could have been
this guy; can't find any links other than that one, oddly, but he was supposedly so wild that he warmed up with an inflatable doll wearing a Dodger uniform standing in the batter's box. Never made the bigs. Bet he'd make a great GM.
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Originally Posted by gordyhulten
My sympathies. Nice write-up of Oakland.
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Thanks and thanks.
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Originally Posted by gordyhulten
I'm curious as to what you'll find if you spend more time researching Blanton's disastrous season. I don't think I've ever seen the AI give that much playing time to somebody who was so obviously incompetent. This guy had a bad 1993, but that's about the worst I've seen, just clicking around, and it's not nearly as bad as Blanton's. |
It's true that Blanton did (and probably still has some) gobs of potential, but I kept pushing the stat weight up, and it was around 40% by the end of the year. Why they preferred him over "Olympia"
Duchscherer, I'll never know.
Interesting link. For a guy that couldn't throw strikes and often left the ball up when he did, Godley had a nice career. Oh, and (hint, hint) that's just the sort of thing that I think we should do more often here in this forum -- draw comparisons between guys in our leagues. We don't have to live in our own little vacuum even if we are playing in a league by ourselves, you know.
Thanks, gents.