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The Phillies just hired a 27 year-old as their assistant GM.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/ ... nt-gm.html

He is only 6 years beyond being able to legally drink.

WTF?

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mikechamp wrote:
November 11 21, 3:06 pm
The Phillies just hired a 27 year-old as their assistant GM.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/ ... nt-gm.html

He is only 6 years beyond being able to legally drink.

WTF?
so was Jon Daniels, and was 28 when hired to be the actual GM

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cardsfantx wrote:
November 11 21, 3:07 pm
mikechamp wrote:
November 11 21, 3:06 pm
The Phillies just hired a 27 year-old as their assistant GM.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/ ... nt-gm.html

He is only 6 years beyond being able to legally drink.

WTF?
so was Jon Daniels, and was 28 when hired to be the actual GM
How's that worked out for the Rangers?

I know, I know... 2 different people. But Rangers still have no championships to show for it.

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mikechamp wrote:
November 11 21, 3:10 pm
cardsfantx wrote:
November 11 21, 3:07 pm
mikechamp wrote:
November 11 21, 3:06 pm
The Phillies just hired a 27 year-old as their assistant GM.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/ ... nt-gm.html

He is only 6 years beyond being able to legally drink.

WTF?
so was Jon Daniels, and was 28 when hired to be the actual GM
How's that worked out for the Rangers?

I know, I know... 2 different people. But Rangers still have no championships to show for it.
they're prob pretty happy (the owners that is)

somehow got the taxpayers to build a new stadium, AGAIN...and went to back to back WS in 10 and 11

1st in division 4x, 2nd 4x

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Another way to look at it is:

Last place finishes in 3 of the past 4 seasons, and they haven't finished the season above .500 since 2016.

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I'll start by saying I'm a big proponent of the younger generation (sub-30 year-olds). I think they will shape the world in many positive ways.

But this is the 2nd hiring of a "kid" in the past couple of hours that makes me scratch my head and say, WTF?

The Brewers announced this afternoon that they’ve hired Ozzie Timmons and Connor Dawson as co-hitting coaches.

Timmons has spent the past four seasons on the Rays’ coaching staff. He’d split his time between base coaching and serving as Tampa Bay’s assistant hitting coach before getting a bump to full-time assistant hitting coach last month. Just a few weeks later, he’ll land a more significant role in Milwaukee. An outfielder in his playing days, the 51-year-old Timmons appeared in parts of five big league seasons from 1995-2000.

Dawson comes over from the Mariners, where he’d been Seattle’s minor league hitting coordinator. The 28-year-old had previously spent a couple seasons coaching in the M’s system and now gets his first job on a big league staff.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/ ... aches.html
The 28 year-old had already been coaching for a couple of seasons? I can't imagine being a 30-year old major leaguer and having a non-player (meaning, he has no BR page) who is 2 years younger than me as a coach... or 3 years younger than me as the asst. GM. Yeesh.

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Perhaps they're anticipating that the coaches will waste less time banging on about "how things were in their day" and will provide useful information that will allow the players the chance to perform better.

I've no problem with a manager / trainer younger than me, as long as they're not an idiot.

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