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Taking bonuses worth millions for nothing. It doesn't matter if your company is successful or not. You're getting bonuses in the tens of millions. if you can commit a white-collar crime, even better!
I assume that just Primer snark. Dan Duquette had an excellent track record as a GM and based on what he did in Montreal, he'd be great fit for the Pirates.
Given the general belief in Duquette's competence, I now doubt much more that he will be hired. Prove me wrong, Nuttings! Prove me wrong!
That's flatly untrue. He did some dumb things, and the end of his tenure was pretty ugly but most thoughtful Sox fans I know recognize that he is the guy who built most of the 2004 Red Sox core group---Pedro, Manny, Wakefield, Lowe, Varitek, Damon, etc. There's no getting around that when assessing his tenure, I don't think.
He's likely a better baseball decisionmaker than anyone else Pittsburgh can attract, as that job is (unfortunately) seen as a dead-end by most I suspect. But from the PR/organizational harmony side of things he definitely seems an imperfect fit and likely will have to prove that he learned some things while out of the game.
When I started looking more closely at Duquette, I was suprised by how many good players he pulled in while he was in charge of Milwaukee's drafts. In two years, he added Gary Sheffield, Greg Vaughn, Darryl Hamilton, Jamie Navarro, Bill Spiers, Troy O'Leary and the good Steve Sparks, along with various role-players and such. That's not a bad haul, although the Brewers didn't do very well at capitalizing on it.
I also think that Duquette's Israeli connections are intriguing, after his work with the IBL. Israel is a pretty untapped market, scouting-wise, and it might be a good target for marketing as well if he can get the Pirates back on their feet.
By 2012 everyone would realize that wasn't working and the CEO system will be scrapped.
The above is worst case scenario with Duquette. I think he is a viable candidate. I would like someone with Duquette's experience as a gm to bring in someone young who has never been a gm before but has vision of winning.
If they can get him out of the tree...
I'd make a Police Academy joke here, but I can't remember which one had the cat in the tree gag. How sad for me.
Take a look at these two rosters: 1994 Red Sox; 1995 Red Sox. Duquette turned a whole bunch of free talent into a division winner.
He also did a great job with big-ticket signings. Manny Ramirez 8/140, Pedro Martinez 6/90, Nomar, Varitek, and Lowe to pre-FA deals, Damon 4/32. He couldn't sign a good player for under $25M to save his life, though.
He had a great run in Montreal - built a good chunk of the '94 roster, traded for Pedro - and I think there's good reason to think he'll do very well in another small market situation.
People in Pittsburgh hardly bother to talk to Littlefield at this point, since all that comes out of his mouth is lies, spin, and rancid oil. Someone who's honest, even an honest jerk, would be a nice change.
As for the thing about being an autocrat, some degree of institutional control would be nice. As of a few years ago, the player development people weren't even teaching the same techniques/approaches at different levels.
Somehow, though, once he started spending heavily, he lost the ability to identify cheap talent and started signing poor players to fill holes around his stars, and he stopped putting any effort into the farm system.
He was sort of like two completely different, but nonetheless good GMs. First he did well with the farm and cheap talent, then he did well with big-ticket FAs but lost his touch with cheap talent.
all without the help of the amateur draft! robinson checo uber alles!
i don't think this was really the problem. each year the trading deadline would come around and he'd have no prospects to trade, so he took on big contracts to get the players he wanted (he wanted rolando arrojo, he got mike lansing, too). that's the reason he had a bunch of expensive players like lansing filling minor roles.
Maybe that's what the organization needs at this point. An A-Hole who knows what he's doing. [Well compared to DL and McClatchy, Duquette certainly should qualify as someone who knows what he's doing]
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