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By chowbow | December 21, 2007
In 1993, the Rox had a decent cpaign for a first year. They improved a little and by their third year squeaked into the playoffs with a better-than-.500 season. Success with that model looked attainable — but wins flattened out and then started sagging. Players were breaking down. Te-building design tactics that worked for home ges didn’t work for road ges. The design didn’t change over those years, it was a steady Syncopation of Sybaritic Slug-A-Thons. The frustration went straight up. The previous GM, Bob Gebhard moved aside after the 1999 season to make way for Cleveland Indians assistant G.M. O’Dowd, and the new leader started twiddling with the formula.
We talked about what the Rockies front office te have been doing to cope with their very different environment and why they’ve chosen those paths. NOTE: there are a few unintelligible passages in here- sorry ’bout that.
Q: You have one of the most interesting jobs of any general manager in baseball. You’re the only one who deals with a physical environment which is not way out of specification compared to what all other tes face. The insanity that cascades as a result makes everything you do much more complicated 6 string acoustic guitar
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A: I think what it does more than anything else is not make the basis of statistical analysis that exists in our industry – I’m not sure that most of those statistical theories, resources and methods, all of which I certainly used earlier in my career…in my Cleveland days…in fact we were kind of in the forefront there…a lot of that doesn’t carry over well in Colorado because of the unique environment we play in.
{snip – some generic conversation about pitching}
We’ve got a couple of things in place we think that have helped level the playing field for pitchers. I think Baseball has done a couple of things that will continue to level the playing field. The Humidor has made a dratic difference; we think it could make more of a difference if we were allowed to use it the way we’d like to use it. We have specifications we have to follow – where we store the baseballs and what (temperature) we can store them in. I believe if we were allowed to crank (humidity) up a little higher, it would have even more effect on the ges. One of the problems is not really just this …this is not not earth-shaking scientific method…it’s like when you leave an old pair of leather boots outside in the wintertime in Colorado and they dry up & they crack, they change their shape…the se exact kinds of things happen to a baseball. <something> contact changes dratically, the leather itself becomes smooth like a cue ball. So it’s very difficult to hold the ball and do the things you normally would do in regular…sea level…conditions.
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