I am gonna pick up the ball here Colby. There were people saying that DePods was a "great GM" before the Dodgers had ever played a GAME under his reign. How "silly" is that. Now, the fact is that so far, DePods has done a really nice job in LA, but I'm not going to totally judge him until we've seen a few drafts, his offseason moves, and so on. The point is, like Colby said, just embracing a certain philosophy doesn't make someone "smarter" or "better" than other GM's. It just means he has a different way of thinking than other GMs. I'm sure that most GM's (but there ARE exceptions) know that OBP, and then SLG, are the 2 cornerstone statistics to baseball, and that the sabre stats tell you much more than conventional and traditional stats do. But just because they don't SAY IT over and over, doesn't make them any lesser thinkers than the guys like Epstein and Beane who spout it every chance they get. Don't tell me what you're going to do. You're a GM. I don't need to know. You just go do it, and I'll judge you based on RESULTS, not what you SAY. EDIT: Lest anyone jump to conclusion and rip me for bashing Beane and Epstein and DePods, that's not my intent here. I know the Beane backers tend to get a *bit* defensive even when what I'm trying to say isn't actually a bash on Beane, but the people that think that Saying what you're going to do is the same as actually doing it.