Friday, September 28, 2007 |
Mariners Re-Sign Bavasi, McLaren
Howard Lincoln freely admits he doesn't come out of this season fully satisfied with the Mariners' results.U.S.S. Mariner:"It's a year of mixed emotions," the club CEO said Thursday in announcing that general manager Bill Bavasi and manager John McLaren will return in 2008. "I'm very pleased with having a winning season. On the other hand, I'm very disappointed with what happened in mid-August."
That's when the Mariners, after getting to 20 games over .500, lost nine games in a row to kiss the playoffs goodbye.
Still, when the Mariners were eliminated from the postseason Tuesday, it didn't take long for Lincoln and club president Chuck Armstrong to determine that Bavasi and McLaren had done enough right to deserve a return engagement.
"The two best guys for us right now," Lincoln said, "are Bill and John."
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Starting pitcher Jarrod Washburn said that under Bavasi's leadership, "things have gotten better and better."
"We didn't finish quite the way we wanted," Washburn said. "But we're in position now to have solidarity going into next season."
Regular readers of this blog will know our general reaction - this isn’t a surprise. The Mariners need an organizational overhaul, but they’re blissfully ignorant of that fact, just like they’re ignorant of every advance in baseball analysis in the last 50 years.
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