Lol they should put you in right or left, you lost all your speed.
The Career of Bryan Hurst (MLB 09)
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Lol they should put you in right or left, you lost all your speed. -
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Erie (AA) -- May 6-10, 2010
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Erie (AA) -- May 11-12, 2010
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Erie (AA) -- May 16-19, 2010
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It looks like you are striking out at a quick pace the last few games, almost as quick as I did my first year with Mentle. I struck out around 140 times.
Good luck and I hope that you can get in the groove after missing those games recently.If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in english, thank a soldier.Comment
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I like the little notes and the emails they are really cool.Check out my Baseball Rumors Blog http://baseballrumors101.blogspot.com/Comment
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Re: The Career of Bryan Hurst (MLB 09)
May 20, 2010
He was lying and like a bad poker player he wasn’t fooling anyone.
Detroit Tigers General Manager Dave Dombrowski was in trouble and everyone in the room - every advisor, every scout, every Vice-President -- knew it. The Tigers were floundering again, mired in fourth place in the American League Central division, barely keeping ahead of the perennially awful Kansas City Royals.
This year was suppose to be different. This year the Tigers were suppose to be on the rebound but instead they had followed last year’s horrible season with a wretched start. The season was spiraling out of control and everyone in the room knew Dombrowski’s job was on the line.
And everyone hearing the lies knew Dombrowski was panicking.
“Believe me this is an opportunity to show he can play at the Triple-A level,” said Dombrowski. But was anybody believing him?
“Let’s give him that chance,” Dombrowski said to the group assembled in his office.
Dan Lunetta, Director of Minor League Operations, knew baseball’s dirty little secret, but even he was appalled at what Dombrowski was suggesting. Fans thought that the minor league system was based on merit, that the best players rose through a club’s minor league system the fastest but that’s not how it worked in practise. Sure most of the best players did rise to the top, but they had to wait in line behind all the top draft choices that were fast tracked.
Every General Manager needed those top draft choices to show promise. A GM couldn’t tell the club’s owner to sign a first round draft pick for millions of dollars and then wait years for him to develop or worse yet, flame out. So they were rocketed through the minor league system even if they didn’t deserve it yet. Lunetta and just about everyone in baseball knew that dirty secret.
But Bryan Hurst was being promoted to Triple A from Double A and he was no top draft choice. He wasn’t even a Tigers draft choice.
“Dave,” said Lunetta, pausing to make sure Dombrowski was focused on what he was about to say. ”What in the world has Hurst done to show you any glimpse that he can succeed at the Triple-A level?”
“He’s versatile, he has played outfield, shortstop and even caught at Double A. He can help out at Toledo in a number of ways while Don Kelly is out six-to-eight weeks with his injury,” said Dombrowski.
Don Kelly was Toledo’s third baseman. He broke his hand sliding into second base and was now lost for six-to-eight weeks. The meeting had been called to discuss who would take his roster spot in Triple A; but there was no discussion. Dombrowski had decided Hurst would take that spot without anyone else’s input. That infuriated Lunetta.
“He can’t hit for average and his power is non-existent. I think he has two extra base hits all season at Erie. There’s about six-to-eight guys in Erie who should be promoted before Hurst,” said Lunetta.
Dombrowski realized he was never going to convince Lunetta that Hurst should go to Toledo while Kelly was injured. He glanced at Hurst’s statistics and scouting report on his desk, looking for something to jump out at him that would win this argument.
Lunetta knew the real reason why Hurst was being promoted.
“Don’t do this because you made a bad trade that you’re getting killed for – and rightfully so – in the media,” said Lunetta.
That made everyone in the room stop what they were doing. It wasn’t every day a member of the GM’s staff was openly criticizing the GM among his front office staff.
“What did you say?” said Dombrowski, leaning across his desk.
“Trading away Joel Zumaya last year for Hurst was a bad move and you know it. The only reason you’re advancing Hurst is to try to show the media that you didn’t trade an effective reliever for a nobody,” said Lunetta.
It was the first words of truth that had been said all morning. Zumaya had become an effective one-inning reliever for the New York Yankees since the trade while Hurst had been, well, Hurst had been stuck in Double A with little upside.
“You were in this room when I made that trade,” yelled Dombrowski, rising from his chair. “You agreed we needed a shake-up.”
“Yeah, but I wasn’t the one who suggested trading Zumaya for him,” said Lunetta.
Ronald Fisher, a Tigers scout, rose and waved his hands in the air.
“Whoa, whoa, easy boys, there’s no point in fighting,” said Fisher. “Let’s calm down. Nobody cares about a minor league move. Triple A, Double A, doesn’t matter to the fans. They just want to see wins. We’re spending too much time on this. We’ve got more important things to worry about.”
“So what’s it going to be then?” demanded Lunetta.
“Hurst is promoted from Erie to Toledo. You can make the phone calls to set it in motion,” said Dombrowski. “We’ve got nothing to lose.”
“Nothing to lose but the respect of the other players in the organization who are working their butts off to make it to the majors and producing while Hurst jumps over them because he is the GM’s pet,” said Lunetta.
“Get out of my office,” Dombrowski yelled.
He didn’t need to say it. Lunetta had already rose from his chair and slammed the office door.Comment
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