Can Mike Redmond make a difference to Miami Marlins? - MLB Part 4
It can be said that Mike Redmond is assuming the reins of the Miami Marlins at an ideal time. In-fact he could not have asked for anything more than beginning his Major League managerial experience with the Marlins, the team that has just finished one of
the worst performances in its history.
A slightly improved winning percentage next year can bring plaudits for Redmond. Once he earns the praises and grows motivated as a result, he will go all out to make sure he continues with that.
Redmond must think long-term. For example, drawing up his vision on paper for the next three years will not be a bad idea. By approaching the problems scientifically, he can account for the range of factors while making decisions.
He can start from the rotation. By developing such a mechanism through which good hurlers join it and the bad ones leave automatically over the years, he can lay the foundations of success.
For example, the Washington Nationals solidified their rotation gradually as opposed to overnight addition of powerful arms.
They handled drafts intelligently, making sure that every year they pick someone who can appear in the Majors soon and replace the outgoing members of the rotation.
Off-course, they had to take risks in establishing the system of continuous filtration of the rotation, for example by hiring inexpensive arms that were vulnerable to getting injured.
Regardless of some of their questionable moves, they did streamline their rotation and that today they proudly host one of the most reliable arms in the Major League.
Redmond can take inspiration from the Nationals. While learning from the mistakes they committed, he can focus on the steps taken by them that resulted into their emergence as a force to reckon with in the National League East.
Indeed, Redmond will need money and also the ability to persuade the top officials to aid him in this regard. He has to logically prove his contentions with regard to the improvements before them and make them trust him.
The kind of team that Redmond has to manage may sometimes compel him to take bold decisions. The idea that he should assume the leadership in every matter cannot be discarded by him, because after all the Marlins are passing through desperate times and hence
the extra ordinary measures are required.
They say that in the hordes of incompetent and in essence the counterproductive, someone must stand up even if that means disregarding the principles of mutual consultation and the majority rule.
Bypassing your superior in the battlefield when he is being a traitor is fair and justified. Without wishing to term Loria the traitor, he is certainly acting as the one, especially considering the way he kept his own interest ahead on various occasions
in the last few years.
The lobbying he carried out in order to get the construction of an extravagant Marlins new ballpark approved at the heavy cost of the taxpayers can be a case worth mentioning in the current context.
The place where objective appraisal of the managers is not a tradition can sometimes become the source of recognition for those that may not have deserved it.
While Guillen took the beating from everywhere without being evaluated objectively, Redmond can reap the benefits of the moment by fetching the accreditation. After all, the fans will be showering them on him in case the Marlins see a little jump in the
winning percentage under him next year.
Whether that will be fair or not is a question that has a subjective answer but the fact Redmond is ideally poised to earn the recognition from the Marlins’ fans next year is undeniable.
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