Padres bloggers called for the firing of CEO Mike Dee today (here is an example). The owner, however, gave Dee a vote of confidence:
“The successful and admirable work that Mike has done has allowed us to increase our major league payroll — we’ve surpassed $100 million dollars two years now — and has allowed us to spend every penny of our $13 million amateur draft pool … and it’s also allowed us to be much more active when it comes to being a significant presence in all the relevant baseball markets. If it weren’t for Mike, we simply wouldn’t have the capital available to do all those things at the same time.
“Mike is the CEO and the leader of the band, but also, it’s a collaboration. … As our primary owner, I expect him to be our CEO for a long, long time. Mike has a very long-term contract with us, and I expect him to honor it. I know we’ll honor it.”
That’s somewhat stronger than the usual vote of confidence. We’ll see what happens.
I personally think the Padres made good but risky moves before the 2015 season. High risk, high reward, but high potential for failure. It didn’t work, and they don’t want to do that every year. The question now is, can they build quickly?
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1ZMtFKh
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