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Hyers is official.

Apparently George Lombard is one of the big managerial prospects. I remember Lombard as a hotshot Braves prospect around the turn of the millennium, and I remember how pissed some folks on whatever message board we were using at the time were when the Braves traded him in 2002. And not only is...

Seitzer's wife had cancer this season -- that was why he took a month off in the middle of the season. She recovered, thankfully, but it's not hard to imagine how that might affect someone's overall job performance.

We obviously never know what's going on behind the scenes, and I don't want to overreact when the impact of coaches is pretty ambiguous and hard to quantify. But man, that's a tough beat for Seitzer -- getting fired one year after his guys set records for offensive potency, following a season in...

We obviously never know what's going on behind the scenes, and I don't want to overreact when the impact of coaches is pretty ambiguous and hard to quantify. But man, that's a tough beat for Seitzer -- getting fired one year after his guys set records for offensive potency, following a season in...

I think the hope with Langeliers as a prospect was that he could be a low-BA hitter who popped enough home runs to generate real value at the plate while drawing just enough walks to keep the OBP on the right side of embarrassing. Which is mostly what has happened, though the OBP is still pretty...

Victor Vodnik is having a vaguely respectable season, considering he's pitching in Coors. Too many walks, but a 108 ERA+ isn't anything to be ashamed of.

It's hard to see how he comes back from this (and, in fairness, it seems very possible he doesn't want to).

This is a crazy story. Apparently he told his teammates that he wanted the season to end.

If this somehow ends with us knocking out the Phillies in the first round of the playoffs I am never going to stop laughing. It won't be a pleasant laugh, but I will be laughing.

That's a fun BB-Ref page. I particularly enjoy the .292 slugging percentage at AAA.

I wonder if he would have been a bigger deal back when online stathead types were championing high-walk, high-OBP, low-power minor league prospects like Jackie Rexrode. Everyone has kind of soured on that archetype.

Judging by the A's these last few years I wouldn't take this for granted.

Yes, much like the herpes one gets from having sex with Cy's mother, this error keeps flaring up.

"Lucas Erceg" definitely feels an auto-generated videogame name.

Man, I could have paid the signing bonuses for Hackman and Kroeger combined out of my savings.

I don't know Cijntje from Adam, but these write-ups are not terribly encouraging. "He's an ambidextrous pitcher, which is really cool, but MLB teams probably won't let him do that in the pros. But if he can focus entirely on throwing with just his right hand then maybe he'll develop to the...

When did Enscheff take over this account?

The best thing you can say about Hernandez is that no one ever accused him of being biased against one team or another, because he so consistently screwed over every team.

That also seems very likely.