There was a moment when Jerry Dipoto was forced to assess how he fit with the Arizona Diamondbacks, a team in transition all around him, when it seemed almost nothing fit.
Baseball jobs tend to come and go, they being only slightly more stable than a counter job at Wendy’s.
So, if not in Arizona for the bright baseball man, a former pitcher who’d done his time on the field and in enough front offices to know the score, maybe somewhere fresh.
The Diamondbacks had trudged into last winter with an interim general manager – Dipoto – and an interim field manager, a team with 97 losses that drew barely two million fans, and an organizational philosophy – or a method of employing it – that had run aground.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_y...n_jerry_dipoto_diamondbacks_resurgence_090811
Baseball jobs tend to come and go, they being only slightly more stable than a counter job at Wendy’s.
So, if not in Arizona for the bright baseball man, a former pitcher who’d done his time on the field and in enough front offices to know the score, maybe somewhere fresh.
The Diamondbacks had trudged into last winter with an interim general manager – Dipoto – and an interim field manager, a team with 97 losses that drew barely two million fans, and an organizational philosophy – or a method of employing it – that had run aground.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_y...n_jerry_dipoto_diamondbacks_resurgence_090811
