Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 27, 2008
New GM

Phillies Nation links to an article indicating Ruben Amaro will be named the new Phillies general manager soon after the World Series ends.

That's not surprising. He's served as assistant GM for ten years and probably knows the team as well as anyone right now. If the Phillies win the World Series, however, he'll be taking over a team at a high point. It's tough to look good after that.

By the way, it seems Pat Gillick always knows when to leave an organization. He builds a winner, leaves, and lets someone else take the blame when the organization falls apart. Pat builds teams, not management culture. He has a gift for putting winning teams on the field, but he doesn't appear to teach or pass on that knowledge to whoever follows him. We'll see if Amaro is any different.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:58 AM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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Gillick's the most overrated GM in baseball history. One big reason his ex-teams tend to crash and burn is because he usually leaves them with next to nothing talent wise at the minor league level. This stop looks no different as the 2008 Phils don't have a single prospect in the Baseball America top 50, and only three in the top 100.

Howard, Utley, Rollins, and Hamels were all drafted by previous regimes, and Gillick was just lucky to be there when they hit their prime.

Posted by: Joe at October 27, 2008 09:00 PM
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