{"id":10375,"date":"2011-03-14T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10375"},"modified":"2011-03-16T07:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T07:22:41","slug":"reviewing-the-basics-volume-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10375","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing the basics. Volume 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MlbHlSq\"The fourth volume of our Baseball Basics for Brits series<\/a> focuses on the Front Office of an MLB organization.<\/p>\n

This volume hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t needed much revision because the main points of how a Front Office is structured, and the roles played by the different positions, really haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed in the last three years since the first version was published.<\/p>\n

Quite a bit of the volume is about the work done by the field manager and coaching staff and their duties haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed at all.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that a manager might get the additional responsibility of asking for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinstant replay challenges\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 over the next few years, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not on the cards at the moment and\u00c2\u00a0 I hope I will not need to be adding that into the volume any time soon (as regular readers will know, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m no fan of the prospect of the ability to know when to use a challenge or not potentially deciding a baseball game).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have had to slightly re-word the section about managers being ejected from games, taking into account that the all-time leader in that category, Bobby Cox, has now retired.\u00c2\u00a0 Will umpires miss him?\u00c2\u00a0 Strange as it may seem, I think they will.\u00c2\u00a0 Chucking Cox out of a game must have become a rite of passage for new MLB umpires.<\/p>\n

The first version included quite a few examples of different owners, from the likes of the Angels\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Arte Moreno to the late George Steinbrenner.\u00c2\u00a0 On reflection, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided that these are a bit irrelevant and have taken them out.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that the Boss is no longer with us, there aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any owners that greatly captivate the general baseball public.<\/p>\n

One bit I have added in is a reference to New England Sports Venture, noting the link between the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC (Liverpool fans will be very glad that the reference to Tom Hicks being their owner, as well as owning the Texas Rangers, is now redundant).\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also updated the passage on General Managers being linked to Moneyball to note how Theo Epstein, Billy Beane and the Moneyball philosophy (however that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being interpreted, or misinterpreted, at any given point) have drawn attention from British sports writers now that John Henry and the rest of NESV are leading the way with Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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