Report: Duquette, Krivsky Among Asst. GM Finalists
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Thu, November 13, 2008 02:33 PM | Comments: 18
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Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports says Ruben Amaro Jr. has narrowed down his search to a few candidates for the final assistant general manager position:
Former Mets and Orioles G.M. Jim Duquette and Reds G.M. Wayne Krivsky are under consideration, major-league sources say, along with Muzzy Jackson, the Royals’ former assistant G.M., and Scott Proefrock, the Orioles’ director of baseball administration.
The position available is the one held by Amaro under Pat Gillick.
Posts: 0 Griffin
Yankees get Swisher for a bag of balls. He’s owed 22 million over three years. I think he would’ve been an interesting option for leftfield.
Posted: 05:02 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Pete
I wonder if the Swisher move means Dye is off the block…
Posted: 05:10 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Pete
I don’t know why Amaro’s even considering anyone other than Krivsky off of that list. He made a major turnaround in the Reds’ farm system in only 2 years (and we could use something similar!)
Posted: 05:14 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 John Fire
I disagree re: Swisher. A poor replacement for Burrell if we ultimately need one – dude hit .219 last year and doesn’t come close to replacing Burrell’s OPS. No thanks – that’s a big PASS for me.
Posted: 05:28 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
I’d rather have Burrell than Swisher, but I’d rather have Swisher than a Jenkins/Mench platoon.
Posted: 05:33 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Maverick
With Free Agency set to begin in about 8 hours this is the best we got? talk about an assistant general manager.
For Yankees fans this is like Christmas eve. who is the team gonna buy us this year?.CC, AJ, Manny… maybe all 3! the suspense must be eating them alive.
I guess there’s not much to talk about for us.. compared to the yanks we’re like the poor kids who live up the street. The best we can hope for is resigning Jamie Moyer and picking up a few guys other teams passed over.
Posted: 05:36 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Maverick
FYI. swisher is on the Yankees now
Posted: 05:36 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Maverick
sorry didnt see earlier post.
Posted: 05:37 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
And the Nats are willing to go $100-150 million for Texeira… http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111302406.html
How/why are we so poor? Why can’t we go after one solid free agent like Lowe? It’s kinda depressing.
Posted: 05:42 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 NJ
We’re not poor but irrelevant of attendance we don’t have stupid money, Lowe’s a bad deal through and through and someone’s going to give him the stupid deal Boras wants for him.
Posted: 05:51 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
Our money this offseason will be spent on arbitration raises for Hamels, Howard, Madson, Blanton, Werth and the rest of our arbitration eligible players. We have to spend more money to keep this team intact.
Just think about a team like the Marlins who wishes they had as much money as the Phillies.
Posted: 06:02 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
I know that going after FA is not THE answer, and that our priority should be to keep this team intact for as long as possible… But my point is: if we are not resigning Burrell, we should be able to bring in either a Lowe (top pitcher) or a Bradley/Dye (good outfielders). We can’t just lose Pat and hope we’ll stay strong without adding any strong pieces to the team…
Posted: 06:08 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Griffin
I agree that the Phils shouldn’t just stand pat, but I’m afraid that is what we’re going to do.
Posted: 06:12 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 T Marty
i’d go with Muzzy Jackson, just for that cool a$$ name.
Posted: 06:13 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck P
Our home grown talent needs to be paid first… that’s how you build a champion (Ed Wade deserves some credit for that). We need to get out from under bad contracts (Adam Eaton, Tom Gordon, Pat Burrell… yes, he’s not worth $14 million) not sign new ones. Gillick was able to fill the gaps and we need Amaro to have that same foresight. The centerpieces are in place and if we can hold onto our guys, we’re on the cusp of something special… I believe that we’ll see a long run of postseason appearances. This team has taken over this city… that ballpark has won over the younger population and the ownership needs to capitalize on that. How about a Phillies network? How about a headline free-agent? How about taking the $20 million plus that you earned for winning a world series and doing something to solidify your position as the team that is most likely to win the next championship in this city? If you’re not moving forward, you’re getting passed by and this city cannot be happy winning just one.
Posted: 06:29 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Matt Kwasiborski
I have a feeling the Phils are going to try to sign Manny.
Posted: 06:36 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 Brendan
Different take than T-Mart, dudes already got two strikes against him:
1) The name Muzzy.
2) He worked for the Royals, the worst franchise in baseball the last ten years.
Enough said.
Posted: 07:42 PM on November 13, 2008
Posts: 0 J cole
I always thought that about the Phils, in regards to free agents. They never bring in any big names, but now that I see where they are, I am completely fine with growing our own talent. But it would be great to see them pull in a huge name that can and will put the Phils above even more so.
Posted: 12:43 AM on November 14, 2008