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Los Angeles Dodgers fire GM Paul DePodesta

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Javier:
Whoever the GM  can lie and  do whatever he wants.  He cant say what hes gonna do so that other GMs can read and react.  It's alarming that the owner changed his mind one day.  By the way Terry Collins isnt the AAA Manager, he's the director of player development for the Dodgers so he knows this team from MLB to A Level.  It's safe to say that there have been more positives than negatives with Depodesta as GM.  I would recommend you to just check out the stats since Im just pretyt much depressed since the owner will just have a nother change of heart soon.  Especially since the rumored replacements are Gillick, Kevin Towers, or even Orel. 

Perfection:
This is a great move that I've been expecting for a while now. This guys tries to bring a Billy Bean ideal system to LA, but doesn't realize that he isn't as smart as Billy Bean nor does Billy Bean's ideal system (which is money) work in the majors. GM's have to learn how to over come their mistakes so that the team can benefit & not just make more mistakes to cover up the previous ones. Theo Espstien is a prime example of that. He came into Boston with the Billy Bean philosophy of money ball & that a closers are overrated. But half way through his first year, he realized that he's made a mistake. So he started trading for guys to put in the pen who could be closers because the closer by comitty wasn't working. The next year He signs Keth Foulke, trades for Curt Schilling, & then during the season trades for Orlando Cabrea, Doug Mankaviki (sp), & Dave Roberts all great moves & the Red Sox end up winning the World Series

WestCoasta:

--- Quote from: Perfection on October 29, 2005, 08:34:31 PM ---Theo Espstien is a prime example of that. He came into Boston with the Billy Bean philosophy of money ball & that a closers are overrated. But half way through his first year, he realized that he's made a mistake. So he started trading for guys to put in the pen who could be closers because the closer by comitty wasn't working.

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exactly, you know what you're talking about...... bullpen's are the most important part of a team to get deep in the playoffs (although White Sox didn't use theirs, they didn't have to though cuz of their starters)..... and just look at the Dodgers shitty bullpen last year, it looked like the weasel didn't even care who it consisted of (even if Gagne never got hurt)

Javier:
If Gagne was healthy the Pen would have been much better and it would have an overall effect to what actually happend.  Plus, what bullpen arm could we have gotten?  The GM was planning to bank on the players within the organization to be succesfful, just like any of the past Dodger World Series Champs, Im guessing you want for us to trade Adam LaRoche for a solid Closer.  And Im scared that thigh might happen

thatboi:
I'm not surprised in the least. Now repair that bullpen.

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