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Post by klaiggeb on Mar 27, 2019 14:51:28 GMT -5
We are not going to agree, Roger, that's the long and the short of it.
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Post by rog on Mar 27, 2019 15:25:04 GMT -5
Well, I think I've got Brian Sabean on my side. In reality, you were talking about baseball "smarts," while I was simply stating that Farhan is smarter than Brian. We were talking about two different things. One thing I will say is that despite his success, even if he were younger, I doubt Brian would ever be hired as a GM again. The game has changed. Here is something that is a bit ironic. Brian's success almost takes away from your argument that a person who hasn't played the game above the high school level can't understand it. Brian did play college ball, but not at the Division 1 level. I'm not certain of this, by the way, but I don't think JC ball is all that much advanced from high school ball. Division 3 ball is a step up from that, but again, if a player was good in high school, he can likely play D-3 ball. Division 2, which Brian played, is the next step up. I suspect D-2 ball begins to be what we would consider more like true college ball. (As an aside, our "grandaughter" just accepted a partial scholarship to play D-2 softball in two years.) Division 1 is the level we tend to think of when we think of college ball, since most draftees come from that level. Even rookie ball is advanced from college ball, and of course each level from rookie ball to short-season to Low A to High A to AA to AAA to the majors becomes more advanced. Anyway, if there are things a player who hasn't played beyond high school ball can't understand, does't it tend to follow that there will also be some things that a player who plays JC ball can't understand, all the way up to things that someone who hasn't played D-1 ball can't understand, to things that someone who hasn't played organized ball can't understand, to things someone who hasn't played major league ball can't understand? Brian Sabean did pretty well for a guy who never played organized ball, and didn't even play in D-1.
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