Failure Is An Option

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A while back, I wrote an article   about how I finally figured out what it was about Ned that I didn’t like, the man simply refused to take a risk. Need to have Brett Tomko around so your eighth starter has been here before. Need to bring back Nomar because Loney might not be ready. Can’t have Jayson Werth on the roster because he might get hurt, and so on. This lack of ... [link]

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Interesting Take on Andruw Jones and Ned Colletti
Published 5/3/2008 by SportsHubLA at SportsHubLA
... has six fewer RBIs than noted run producer Juan Pierre- over at TrueBlueLA, host Andrew isn’t upset .  Well, he’s upset at Jones, but not at GM Ned Colletti for bringing him in, and has an interesting spin on the signing: Jones was coming off a coming off a season where he made Juan Pierre look like an offensive force, so the typical Ned thing to do would be ignore Jones, then beg Torii Hunter to come play for us. Instead, Ned took a risk. Ned took the guy that had a suppressed value in the market, but had the potential to be good anyway. This was the first time he did ...

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