Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting
Don Mattingly will “likely” be retained by the Dodgers no matter how they finish the season, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
How about Sciosica to the Dodgers, Don Mattingly to the Yankees? Fun to think about, but extremely unlikely. The Dodgers are negotiating a contract extension with GM Ned Colletti and likely will do the same with Mattingly no matter how their season ends.
Unlike what seems to be the feelings of basically every Dodger fan at the moment, I still don’t want Mattingly fired. I think he’s a perfectly good manager if you consider the replacement level and what not*. I would, however, be willing to part with him if it meant Ned Colletti goes.
Unfortunately though, it looks like the reason Mattingly will be staying is because Colletti will be.
*As in, yeah he makes dumb moves, but besides like Manny Acta, Joe Maddon, and Joe Girardi (maybe), who makes a ton of sabermetrically inclined decisions in the league?
Heh. I think you’ve got the gist of it; I like mattingly enough and wouldn’t mind him sticking around but am more than happy to sacrifice him if it means Colletti is drawn and quartered.
Who would be the top 5 choices to replace Ned? And are they available? I get that Ned was hamstrung to some degree by McCourt, but the Dotel for McDonald+ deal will always stick in my mind as the type of deal that probably had little ownership involvement and yet was something Ned probably chose to do. I have no proof, but I just don’t see how he would have been mandated to make that move. It’s giving away value that you have for nothing in return. If they do retain him, I just pray that the Santana deal was a direct mandate from McCourt and was not a decision made by Ned. That would at least make it a little easier to give him a clean slate with new ownership backing him, since it appears that’s what we’ll have to do.
Wil – don’t buy into the Colletti apologist line of thinking with that “Ned was hamstrung to some degree by McCourt”!
Remember Andruw Jones, Juan Pierre, and Jason Schmidt? They were all signed to big time contracts under the McCourt ownership.
And Schmidt was signed AFTER Ned was informed that Schmidt’s MRI showed a partially torn rotator cuff. He signed him anyway! smh
And people wonder why I despise Ned Colletti.
Just look at my comment below. I already despised him before that study by B-R or Fangraphs came out.
He made better moves as a GM without the 130-140 million dollar payroll.
Right – different budgets require different skillsets and ultimately, different GMs.
Guys like Andrew Friedman from the Rays, basically.
There’s no rumored GM candidates with interest because the assumption is that he’ll be retained.
The Dodgers have once again become a plum assignment so I’m sue anybody not named Theo Epstein and Billy Beane (not that they’re good GMs or whatever, but just GM/baseball people who also hold ownership stakes) or Brian Cashman would jump at the opportunity.
However, I do wonder, since Colletti has saddled the team with quite a number of long term contracts, does that diminish the job for prospective GMs?
Doubt it. They wouldn’t be blamed for what the previous regime did and the money would still be there.
Looks like he also gave up too much in the huge Red Sox trade. I could possibly see giving up one of Rubby, Webster, or Lee, but two of them in order to take on all that salary? Ugh. I was slightly in favor of the trade at that time, but now I understand that we gave up too much. In addition, we also gave up too much to get Victorino. If Sands had been given more of a shot, we would have been able to keep Ethan Martin if Jerry had done any hitting.
Who did that study a few months ago of the cumulative major league WAR for every organization’s original signees from the amateur draft over the past 8 years or so? It showed that the players who the Dodgers originally drafted and signed had the highest cumulative major league WAR of all 30 teams, despite the team only having one top ten pick. Guys like Kemp, Santana, McDonald, Kershaw, Russell Martin, Billz, Victorino, Edwin Jackson, Broxton, etc. led the league. Shows you how good a drafter Logan White is, despite missing on Stanton. And of course, the same website analyzed the WAR for every player acquired via free agency and trade, and it showed the Dodgers to be at or near the very bottom of all 30 teams. Shows you how terrible a GM that Agent Ned really is.
I understand the current frustration, but that trade will be evaluated over the next three years, really.
Don’t forget about the potential future all-star ivan de jesus jr!!!!!!
heh.
I don’t see why they couldn’t lure away somebody better with all their money.
Who though?
Joe Maddon isn’t going anywhere? Neither is Joe Girardi unless he gets canned. Manny Acta? But he wasn’t exactly loved when he was with the Nationals.
Exactly. Unlike the Ned Colletti situation, it’s unclear to me just who is a better manager out there.