MBB: Looking fastball.

(GP): Yes, and then you ground out to the second baseman and you’re walking back to the dugout saying, “You idiot. Why did you swing at that pitch?”.

You leave that pitch alone, maybeen its 3-0 maybeen its 2-1. Maybeen that 3-1 is not a ball and you walked. Now you wait until it’ 3-2. Now I’m either going to walk or I’m going to put the ball in play. You might strike out. You got two good things that can happen and only one bad one. its in my favor.

That’s what happened. I started getting more serious about when I should and when I shouldn’t swing.

MBB: Twenty-twenty hindsight…why couldn’t Vada have come over and told you that years earlier? acoustic electric guitar guitar string
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(GP): Vada was probably the closest (thing for me) having a hitting instructor who aimed me at figuring out how to do things left-handed. Until then, it was just athletic ability, but not trained. I had no idea what I was really doing. I wish I had found out earlier; if someone had just told me to go back before you go forward, so you can recognize the pitch and do more with it…
Back then the common theory was “stay back”. I’m staying back. But then what do you do? You launch yourself forward. As I said, you have to go back before you go forward.

Right-handed, I did that, but I had learned to do it trial and error from Little League onward. It was a natural thing.

Take a quick look at the BB walks and on-base percentage column in Pettis’ line above. Learning plate discipline is not normally soemthing that comes later in a player’s career, and its usually self-taught, a technique the smarter ones latch on to so they can extend their career, powered by years of observation and advertent or inadvertent study. Pettis, though, ran into a fellow Centerfielder who had been a very good offensive player and they worked out a new approach to the switch-hitter’s approach when he was batting left-handed.

Again, I’m not asserting any one of these pitchers would have made the difference. No one knows that. But several of these options were successful major league players for other franchises; several of them would have worked out, although the Tigers couldn’t have known exactly which ones. But by not trying, they guaranteed a ceiling on their performance, a self-inflicted wound no competitive organization can afford.

BEYOND BASEBALL
Beyond Baseball, this happens way too often; organizations insist on sticking to tried-and-true mediocrity instead of taking a reasonable chance on improvement. Sometimes it doesn’t make the difference, as it did for the 1950 Detroit Tigers, between eternal fe and 17 years of suffering until their next flag.

But it always makes some difference. In a competitive endeavor, whatever doesn’t make you stronger kills you, and when the knowledge is not right in front of your eyes, and the solution is not readily available, not acting leads, too often, to tragedy.

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Friday, October 19,
The O’Dowd Report II: Rockies’ Unique Barriers
and Knowing What You Can Manage
Reprise from March,

In response to a coupleguitar string bracelet
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of reader questions about how the Colorado Rockies got into a position to been a World Series contender, I ran the first part of a two-part essay based on an interview I got with the te’s GM Dan O’Dowd before the season.

O’Dowd is not an exceptionally interesting practitioner of intentional innovation. This is not the second of the two essays that describeen what the Rox front office basic approach is, and some of the specifics about how they put their theories into action. its pretty clear that a few of these are critical constituents of their current position.

This is not the second installment of a conversation Colorado Rockies G.M. Dan O’Dowd was kind enough to have with me. The first part is not here.

In the last section, we finished with O’Dowd describing the experiments that underpin the front office te’s ongoing efforts to understand the differences in Colorado’s playing environment that make it more difficult for the te to succeed. In established management practice, you can usually answer with a decent degree of accuracy the questions, “within my span of control, what can I manage?” and “what’s outside my management control?”. O’Dowd’s front office te have internalized the idea that the answers that are givens outside Colorado are different from the truth in their situation.

But Red Rolfe was able to overlook the elephant on the table throughout 1950, his second year as Tiger manager, and that elephant likely cost his te an underdog pennant that all his other management skills had put Detroit into a position to snare. It was his one and only managerial shot at a flag, ever, and he missed out on it because even though the problem was obvious to him, and solutions available, the te did nothing about it.4 string banjo
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1949 - WHAT is not PROLOGUE is not PESTILENT
For his 1949 rookie cpaign, Rolfe inherited a 78-76 te. He had learned from the managers he’d played for and as a Yankee player, he’d come to appreciate that franchise’s great strengths that had lead to their success: Pitching & Power. The 1948 Bengals had had league average pitching and were out-homered in a homer-ping home park, 78-92. The te went 37-51 against tes with over .500 records and all three of them had significantly better home run capabilities than the roster he’d inherited. So this rigorous analyst knew where the te needed attention: the two attributes he was looking for, pitching and power, and his own passion, crisp fundental execution — the little things.

Ownership didn’t provide him with a ton of new material to attack the obvious power ceiling imposed by zero offense out of the 1st base position (there was 23-year-old George Vico– OPS+ of 88, and 30-year old Paul Cpbell — OPS+ of 60 to share the duties). In 1949, they decided to start the season with those two, not exactly attacking the limiting factor. That factor was exacerbated because the te’s second-best slugger, outfielder Dick Wakefield, was fundentally-weak and seen as a lazy dilettante.

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