Bavasi out as M's GM

by howiestheman on Jun 16, 2008 12:27 PM PDT

wow, the hits just keep on coming, huh? and yet, bad news for the Mariners never seems to get old. how's that 2008 AL West championship tasting, M's fans?

hahaha

" 'Change is in order.' Lincoln said. 'We have determined new leadership is needed in the GM position. With a new leader will come a new plan and a new approach. A search will begin immediately for a permanent GM, and Lee will be a candidate for the position.' "

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wow

after all that good stuff last season…. GA must have fired him for being too lazy

Rodger Lodge and Dave Smith are the two best radio talk show hosts in the country. Period.

by hunter48 on Jun 16, 2008 12:30 PM PDT reply actions

TOO BAD

Bavasi there has been like an insurance policy for us. Now they might acceidentally pick a good candidate.

Lat’s face it, their owners care more about coddling Kenji Johjima and Ichiro than actually winning (or are misguided into thinking that these guys will assist in winning it all). Until Howard Lincoln is replaced and/or the ownership changes, the Mriners will be mired in their ethnicity/personality-first ways.

by Rev Halofan on Jun 16, 2008 12:40 PM PDT reply actions

Bavasi stank in Anaheim, too

The only thing that saved him in the end was that he had a good scouting department. It’s not clear that the M’s have even that, or when they do (cough Jeff Clement cough) that they’re willing to give their good young kids a chance. And then there’s trades like Horacio Ramirez for Rafael Soriano

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by scareduck on Jun 16, 2008 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions

AGREE

A few Angel greats landed in his lap and he was at the helm when we won the K-Rod bidding war, but all in all he was terrible here – putting all his eggs in the Mo Vaughn basket was just one example of many.

The sentimentality for the TWO Bavasi’s is something i have never understood – Buzzie and Bill were pieces of shit when it came to assembling and maintaining winners.

by Rev Halofan on Jun 16, 2008 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions

K Rod bidding war

So why are we basically nonexistant there now? I have not even heard us mentioned in the Michael Inoa scouting reports.

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

by hauldog on Jun 16, 2008 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions

?????????

I was referring to the 1998 bidding war for 16-yr-old Frankie. Bavasi ponied up a 900K signing bonus and he signed.

Otherwise I don’t understand your post.

by Rev Halofan on Jun 16, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions

I am asking why the Angels are inactive in the Latin American FA market

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

by hauldog on Jun 16, 2008 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions

uh....

Erick Aybar, Jose Arredondo, etc.

by Rev Halofan on Jun 16, 2008 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Good point

Add in Kendry and clealry I had a brain fart

Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.

by hauldog on Jun 16, 2008 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions

Not to mention Santana.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Jun 16, 2008 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Buzzie

put together some pretty good Dodger teams; he just never understood free agency. But give him a reserve clause, and he’d build a good team.

by jjackflash on Jun 16, 2008 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Did he?

Did he put them together or was he just the new salesman on the lot when Sandy Koufax’ cadillac drove up? I would actually like to know the years of his tenure/influence there.

by Rev Halofan on Jun 16, 2008 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Actually, yeah, Buzzie had a pretty strong influence

in building the Dodgers’ first WS foundation, and also deserves serious credit for standing at the front lines of racial integration.

He brought Walter Alston into the organization, and took the reigns of the Dodgers while they were still in Brooklyn, in 1951. He was there until 1968. That was 8 NL pennants and 4 WS titles. The 1959 title came before Koufax.

by Stirrups on Jun 16, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions

Peter O'Malley's rise was Buzzie's warning shot

Walter wanted his son to take over, and Bavasi pere’s job was threatened. He headed for the door and ran off to the expansion Padres in 1968/9. Of course, that turned out to be something of a ripoff, as the Padres’ owner was a crook.

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by scareduck on Jun 16, 2008 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions