organizational philosophy

Friday Links (4 Apr 08)

Friday, April 4, 2008
by Geoff Young

Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Friday links: Tom Krasovic at the U-T provides a brief overview of "Sandyball" (h/t LynchMob) -- the Padres' organizational philosophy under CEO Sandy Alderson: The club has made a habit of acquiring major leaguers who can be free agents at season's end, or signing veterans to one-year contracts. More to the point, the Padres fish those waters year-round. Alderson has said such players can be extra motivated by the prospect of imminent free agency. Further, such a player can strengthen the farm system if his departure nets a draft pick or two. Whoa, that makes way too much sense. Tom Verducci at SI.com has ...

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Hacking on a 2-1 Count

Thursday, October 20, 2005
by Geoff Young

Yesterday we talked about the Padres' inability to hit on a 2-1 count. We speculated on reasons why this might be so. Reader Anthony suggested that some hard hit balls may have died on the warning track at Petco or that some players might be thinking walk first when they get ahead in the count. Dex suspects there might be an organizational philosophy that leads to an overly aggressive approach in certain situations. The Padres numbers seemed pretty anemic to me, but it's difficult to know for sure without any context. I thought it might prove instructive to run numbers on all 30 MLB teams and see how the Padres stack up against ...

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