Wall Street Journal ranks MLB managers: Ozzie 6th

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Joe Torre is ranked below Dusty Baker...

Gheez...good list WSJ

"You might be impressed with your analysis, but I am not. Stop wasting my time." - Chris De Luca

by BoKnows on Mar 28, 2008 3:34 PM CDT reply actions

based upon what they're measuring

it makes perfect sense.

the law of conservation of masset: no matter how much masset you use up, there is always masset in your system.

by larry on Mar 29, 2008 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions

Interesting - supposedly Ozzie's strength is his ability

to pull out wins he's not supposed to, and his weakness is not winning the close ones (or at least not bringing any value to close games). So with all the 1-run wins in '05, is the assumption that the Sox won in spite of Ozzie?

I took the "under".

by winningugly on Mar 29, 2008 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions

sometimes you get lucky, no?

every dog has his season?

speaking generally, and not getting too deep into ozzie's specific involvement/noninvolvement in them, the 2005 team was so good generally and so good specifically in close games because it had a fantastic bullpen and excellent defense. meaning, of course, coupled with the excellent starting pitching, they were simply stingy in giving up runs.

specifically, the bullpen can be chalked up to ozzie, in part, because he really did a pretty good job in going from shingo to hermie to jenks and also in using his "hot" relievers, cotts and politte, in the high leverage situations.

the law of conservation of masset: no matter how much masset you use up, there is always masset in your system.

by larry on Mar 29, 2008 3:40 PM CDT up reply actions

hard to measure this

I agree with Gardinhire as the best manager, but Mike Scisca tied with Joe Madden? I have a world of respect for what Sciosia does and he may be the best. I'll take him over Ozzie.

by spadog on Mar 28, 2008 3:35 PM CDT reply actions

Cheat, how were you able to link it

without everyone being a WSJ Online member? I've tried to forward links and was given feedback by posters that when they clicked on the link it a password was needed to read the article.

I took the "under".

by winningugly on Mar 29, 2008 2:26 PM CDT reply actions