Baker should have convinced management that they needed to rebuild their pitching staff. Move Wood and Prior to set up and relief roles, and bring in proven young or decent veterans to start games, and start rebuilding. If Wood and Prior don't like their roles then shop them around and see what they can get for them. Letting Patterson go was a good move. I am still peeved they didn't work harder to keep Alou even with Lee batting well, Ramirez is hurt or in a slump they needed the additional HR and RBI output. All that said, Baker is a good manager, but doesn't have the right tools healthy or enough of them to make it work like he did a fews years ago.
No question that Baker is a good manager. But does he know how to manage speed? Have the Cubs tried a hit-and-run yet this season? Does he know how to manage a pitching staff? How many young arms hase he rushed out and burned out in the last couple years? Give Baker a veteran power team with a healthy veteran pitching staff (even a slightly better than mediocre staff) and he'll do great. Give him what Hendry has provided and he appears lost.
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ah the White Sox continue to do well. Life is good at the top!
Baker should have convinced management that they needed to rebuild their pitching staff. Move Wood and Prior to set up and relief roles, and bring in proven young or decent veterans to start games, and start rebuilding. If Wood and Prior don't like their roles then shop them around and see what they can get for them. Letting Patterson go was a good move. I am still peeved they didn't work harder to keep Alou even with Lee batting well, Ramirez is hurt or in a slump they needed the additional HR and RBI output. All that said, Baker is a good manager, but doesn't have the right tools healthy or enough of them to make it work like he did a fews years ago.
No question that Baker is a good manager. But does he know how to manage speed? Have the Cubs tried a hit-and-run yet this season? Does he know how to manage a pitching staff? How many young arms hase he rushed out and burned out in the last couple years? Give Baker a veteran power team with a healthy veteran pitching staff (even a slightly better than mediocre staff) and he'll do great. Give him what Hendry has provided and he appears lost.
then why did the Tribune Co. give Jim Hendry a contract extension?
That's one heckova good question? Maybe they wanted him to have a job after the dumped the team to some underfunded investor?
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