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Mariners Insider
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
LINKAGE: GM candidates coming in, Gillick gets his due; Bryan Price sticking with D'Backs
Posted by Ryan Divish @ 01:27:04 pm

A little absence for me and the links, but we'll get some out there.

First of all, as most of you know, it has been reported that five GM candidates are coming in this week.

The first interview is supposedly today with Mets assistant GM and former Mariner player Tony Bernazard, according to the NY Daily News.

The Toronto Globe and Mail is reporting that the Blue Jays have confirmed that the Mariners have contacted them about Tony LaCava.

Kim Ng

So that leaves Kim Ng of the Dodgers, who is scheduled to interview in the next few days, and two members of the Diamondbacks: Peter Woodfork and Jerry DiPoto.

The USS Mariners has a link to an NPR interview Ng did a while back.

More audio: Buster Olney also offers up some info on the Mariners GM situation in this interview with KJR.

That doesn't mean that these are the only candidates. They are the first five. Expect at least five to seven more candidates to have interviews.

One of those possible candidates, albeit a longshot, Brewers GM Doug Melvin is looking at a contract extension before he makes any further decisions.

Speaking of the D'Backs earlier. You would think that if Woodfork or DiPoto were to get the job, there might be the possibility of them bringing Arizona pitching coach Bryan Price back to Seattle as the manager, but that might not seem as likely now since Price signed a one year contract with the D'Backs.

Speaking of former Mariners staffers, former M's GM and current Phillies GM Pat Gillick is getting ready for tonight's NLCS. Here's a column on him from the Philly Inquirer. And here's another story on Gillick from the Wilmington News Journal.

Here's a column by Gary Shelton on young Rays GM Andrew Friedman.

As much as I dislike the Yankees, I wouldn't mind seeing this former Yankee come up and manager the Mariners next year. Maybe if Kim Ng gets the job she can bring Don Mattingly with her.

Speaking of people I dislike greatly, here's a story on Satan, er, Scott Boras from the NY Times.

Here's a story on Dustin Pedroia, one of the few players in MLB I'm taller than. The list also includes Chone Figgins, ERick Aybar and David Eckstein.

Angels manager Mike Scioscia stands by his decision to call for a squeeze bunt against the Red Sox.

Rangers president Nolan Ryan thinks the Rangers need to be tougher on their pitchers.

Categories: Linkage • 2 comments

COMMENTS:

MarinersDefender @ 12:48 - Friday, October 10th, 2008 Email
I like the lineup that the Terrible Twosome have permission to talk to about the open M's GM job.
Here's hoping they actually HIRE from that list and not from secret one that just means another Bavasi retread yesman.
Of the known names to be or have been interviewed my short list is:
Kim Ng
Woodfolk
David Forst
Tony LaCava
However there is a dark horse I would support for the job:
Bob Engle

Quite frankly I do agree should Kim Ng get the GM job I would wholeheartly go along with her if she should bring Don Mattingly on board as field manager.
He spend quite some time under Joe Torre a manger who more than held his own with an interfering FO in NY run by the Steinbrunners.
He's a top hitting coach and knows offense and as a solid 2ndBman he also knows what it takes for defense to help support the rotation/pen.
However I would expect to see his name added to any list of possible managers to hire no matter who gets the GM spot with the M's.

Of course Angels manager Mike Scioscia stands by his decision to squeeze bunt in that final game againist Boston.
Quite frankly I believe without doult that Scioscia thought he read a sign that made his decision the right one.
However knowing he has a "habit" as a former catcher of trying to read the other club's signs.
I think Boston took advantage of this put a red herring out there and trick him into the squeeze bunt call while having it already defensed to a point.

As to Nolan Ryan saying the Rangers need to be tougher on their pitchers.
I wonder when he came to that conclusion I not think the rangers need to tougher on their pitchers but need to get guys who can ACTUALLY pitch to begin with.
They need to match their pitchers to the stadium not the other way around especially in that hitter's paradise in Arlington.
Til they understand that I will continue to love watching the feast or famine offense with no pitching Rangers.
True they finished 2nd in the AL West but is because of off year the A's had with all the injuries and trades.
The M's with their weak offense and up/down rotation/pen with a defense in flux.
knutson_11 @ 15:07 - Friday, October 10th, 2008 Email
So not to say that Bryan Price is the manager I would want, but just because he signed a 1 year extention, why would he not take a managers job given the chance? Is there something in the contract saying he cant take a better job?

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