I stumbled across this article on managing in the Bill James “1988 Baseball Abstract”
I quote:
A managers duties can be broken down into three distinct areas:
1. Game level decision making.
2. Team level decision making
3. Personal management and instruction
In best I can estimate, a manager makes about 70 game level decisions a game, or about eleven thousand […]
Looking for a manager seems to be something that the Reds franchise is pretty good at, selecting the right one is something they seem to have trouble with though.
As the search progresses, I’ll let the others kick the bones of the candidates…Dusty, Pete Mac and even Tony… in the meantime I’m going to kick some […]
No, I didn’t desert you, nor the game, nor the Reds.. I just stepped away. Never-the-less, here are some notes that help spread some of the teams blood around the scene of the carnage.
Brandon Phillips becomes the first Reds player since Dave Parker (1986) to have more then 700 plate appearances in a season.
Copping 700 […]