Comments on: Woody Woodward Is Back

By: BoiseM

BoiseM — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:46:37 +0000

I kind of miss those Arena Ball teams of the Nineties.

By: SABR Matt

SABR Matt — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:52:53 +0000

Woody was a very good judge of talent…he just made a really bad blunder with Slocumb.

At the time, Varitek was not a very productive prospect…it took him a number of additional seasons to become a useful major leaguer. And Derek Lowe was a pretty low-upside pitcher who happened to max out his potential.

But you cna’t deny that dyring the 90s, the Mariners had a lot of talent and Woodward’s scouting teams were a big part of that.

By: Jon Shields

Jon Shields — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:12:17 +0000

What confuses me is this

Geoff Baker, last month:

One new development with the Mariners that kind of got lost in the crazed aftermath of that 12-player J.J. Putz trade is that Seattle will no longer use an advance scout for games. This role is instead being transferred to the team’s new department of statistical analysis.

I wonder what Woodward’s exact role will be. Perhaps the scouting work mentioned in the Baker blurb is more like “scouting the competition,” while Woodward’s department is closer to that of talent scout?

By: Librarian

Librarian — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:57:12 +0000

Damn this headline scared me, though as you said, Woodward did his share of good. Drafting Anderson is defendable, the Slocumb trade is not. As long as he doesn’t have major decision making responsibilities this should be fine/negligible.

By: seatown27

seatown27 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:32:45 +0000

our first playoff run was during woody’s tenure… i agree he did a lot of good things for the mariners, but he is also known for drafting ryan anderson, and trading varitek and lowe for heathcliff slocumb.