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<blockquote data-quote="FollowTisdale" data-source="post: 1489146" data-attributes="member: 619279"><p>I was just being a smartass, the Matheny - Ross comparisons write themselves. The things people said about "smart front office gets a blank slate guy who they will be able to control" were <em>verbatim</em> said about Matheny in 2012. But I was being serious when I said managers really don't matter, unless they're just straight terrible, like Matheny. I don't really think there's a manager capable of say, taking a 85 win team and making them a 90+ win team just buy pulling the right strings, the underlying talent is infinitely more important.</p><p></p><p>I'm also completely content with the Cardinals season. They won 90 games and got the LCS with a not very great team. Mo is the king of assembling a team that projects for 87 wins literally every year and that usually means you make the playoffs, sometimes you get hot and win a trophy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FollowTisdale, post: 1489146, member: 619279"] I was just being a smartass, the Matheny - Ross comparisons write themselves. The things people said about "smart front office gets a blank slate guy who they will be able to control" were [I]verbatim[/I] said about Matheny in 2012. But I was being serious when I said managers really don't matter, unless they're just straight terrible, like Matheny. I don't really think there's a manager capable of say, taking a 85 win team and making them a 90+ win team just buy pulling the right strings, the underlying talent is infinitely more important. I'm also completely content with the Cardinals season. They won 90 games and got the LCS with a not very great team. Mo is the king of assembling a team that projects for 87 wins literally every year and that usually means you make the playoffs, sometimes you get hot and win a trophy. [/QUOTE]
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