David Stearns. All process, no pulse.
All numbers and rules.
Black and white in a game that has always lived in the gray.
A strangely powerless kind of powerful guy- somewhat of a contradiction, walking around in a very expensive suit, making very expensive decisions that somehow still manage to feel a bit hollow.
And then this nugget came out recently.
Pete Alonso, at some point in what I can only imagine was a spectacular and tense conversation, looked at David Stearns and said, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post,
“When my career is being evaluated for the Hall of Fame years from now, you’ll still be fiddling with your fucking formulas.”
That’s not an opinion.
That’s an indictment from the inside. From a player who lived it.
Via/9inningnomad
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Before he became the beloved voice Mets fans welcomed into their homes for decades, Ralph Kiner was one of the most feared sluggers baseball had ever seen.
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