Prospectus Today: The Teflon Manager by Joe Sheehan

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Joe Sheehan on Dusty and OBP
Published 3/10/2008 by Chris at Redleg Nation
... Joe Sheehan of BP weighs in on Dusty. ($) I’m getting pretty uncomfortable with the stathead consensus about where Dusty Baker is taking this ballclub. It’s early, etc., and I’m hoping that Dusty is more talk than anything. But as Joe says, with ...

This Week's Links (3/10-3/14)
Published 3/14/2008 by Vegas Watch at Vegas Watch
Arkansas beat Vanderbilt!? Impossible. SI's Luke Winn refers to this blog as "esteemed". Questionable, but appreciated. This is what I was talking about in the live-blog. I can't do better than AA's title- "Digger Phelps Has No Idea What's Going On". That is even an understatement. Dusty Baker is going to ruin Joey Votto. It's not funny. Okay, maybe a little. Bob Costas hates bloggers. BPro Unfiltered headline: "Braves, Angels Have Most Heart". Scientific evidence follows. Hasheem Thabeet ...

…. Two for one
Published 3/18/2008 by John at Only Baseball Matters
Joe Sheehan reminds us that Dusty Baker is still wrong: …. A few years back, the blogosphere had a field day with Baker’s talk about “clogging the bases” while he was with the Cubs. We’re right back to that point again, with Baker not getting one of the most basic things about baseball: not making outs is the best thing you can do. Baker is fixated on the end result—the event that leads to a runner crossing the plate—and still doesn’t understand that in the big picture, keeping the line moving will put more runs on the board. …. I’m not ...