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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, October 22, 2021Mets should be all-in on Brian Sabean, winning Giants executive, to run front office
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1. Adam Starblind Posted: October 23, 2021 at 09:29 AM (#6048519)If there are others of stature who can exercise unquestioned authority like a POBO must, then they should get a look too.
He's an obvious choice for the Mets, who need an adult in the room to run things with autonomy and to groom a young GM to take over in a few years.
But probably not that many. Sabean built some okay teams that got very lucky, it's true. But is there any particular reason to think that he's a guy worth employing above and beyond a lot of other dudes? I can't see it.
Like the Red Sox needed an adult in the room in the early 00s? Or more like the Rays needed an adult in the room a few years later?
What the Mets need is to break out of the we-need-someone-famous-to-run-this-organization treadmill, and do it well. They no more need an adult in the room than they need a trampoline at spring training.
Yeah, nobody ever got more mileage out of building an 87-win team that inexplicably won the World Series the half the time it even managed to qualify for the postseason at all.
But again, one is not allowed to notice that the Giants have been fortunate of late, because of reasons.
The evidence for this is … you got picked on growing up?
A stupid view that the team with the most regular seasons wins "should" win every World Series, and if they don't, it's somehow tainted/unfair.
Who was the last famous exec the Mets hired, besides Sandy?
Brodie? Porter? Minaya? Jim Duquette? Steve Phillips? Guys like Ricciardi, Baird, DePodesta were brought in as mid-level guys but none were running the show.
I don’t think they need to bring in a big name, but that certainly hasn’t been their MO over the years.
Or the perfectly legitimate view that it's fair to notice when a team wins three world series in ten years without ever being particularly good. You know, reality.
Cubs have been to the WS once in the last 75 year and have been to the WS 6 times in 102 years.
Ok, so which good team should have won the 2010 World Series? The Giants had the second-best record in the National League, so they seem like as good a choice as any.
Which good team should have won the 2012 World Series? The Giants slipped to third in the NL that year, but in a knot of teams with 94 to 98 wins, so they seem like as good a choice as any. Especially since the 98-win team purposely left one of its best players on the bench.
With the Giants acing the 88-win Tigers, the Commissioner should have stepped in for the good of the game and canceled the WS.
Well, in my book, a team that wins three World Series IS particularly good.
How about the 2013 Red Sox that snuck one fluke good year among three last place finishes. Is that win tainted too?
How many MLB franchises won more regular season games than the Giants during Sabean's tenure as GM. It can't be more than 4 or 5, right?
Of course not, the Red Sox are always awesome. Even when they finish last in the East, they are the most awesome last place team in the AL.
Most wins from 1997-2014 (the time listed that Sabean was GM with day-to-day control):
I think Mets fans would trade 'not ever being particularly good' :eyeroll: for ten years in exchange for three world series wins.
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