September 15, 2007
The Ryan Legacy
Aaron Gleeman reviews the tenure of Terry Ryan and wonders if Bill Smith will be an improvement or another Wayne Krisvky.
Update: Kevin Towers provides some insight:
"I wasn't that surprised. Terry's one of those guys, just knowing him, he never seemed real happy [as GM]. He was like, 'Being a GM is what it is. If this is what the organization wants me to do, I'll do it.' He could have done it for 40 years, but with Terry, you figured there was a point in time where he'd say, 'I've had enough.'
"He's an honest man with a tremendous integrity, and a great evaluator. The best way I can put it is he's a baseball man."
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Krivsky, a year and half on the job, one off season and he's already a complete and utter failure?
Reminds me of these quotes from Bill Jame's 1984 Abstract.
"At this point in his career John Schuerholz has yet to try anything that has worked."
"The pathetic thing about John Schuerholz is that he fancies himself a gambler, but a gambler is in fact, exactly what he's not."
"A return to the top of the division in the next 3-4 years is all but out of the question."
Who wrote Krivsky was a "complete and utter failure"? Gleeman wrote he was miscast. Did I misread the linked articles?
True, he wrote miscast, my bad... on ythat front. However in the Reds community and others (IE BP for one) the slack given to Krivsky has been incredibly short considering the mess the Reds organization was prior to his hiring.
So as it was written, is he "Miscast"?
I'd say the jury is still out.