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M's CEO: 2013 was'most disappointing and frustrating'season

Even to the man in charge of it all, the Seattle Mariners’ 2013 season
looked like a step in the wrong direction.

Team CEO Howard Lincoln saw what we all saw back in February, when the M’s
started spring training: a good-looking team with young talent and strong
veteran presence, starting a promising make-or-break third year under manager
Eric Wedge and supported by promising prospects in the minors. Even ESPN
named Seattle a sleeper team with potential to make a postseason run.

That didn’t happen. Despite some promising stints of great baseball, the
Mariners once again floundered in 2013. After Sunday’s season finale, a
fitting 9-0 loss to the A’s at Safeco Field, the 71-91 M’s ended up with
four more losses than a year ago.

“This was the most disappointing and frustrating season I’ve ever endured,
without any question,” Lincoln said in an interview Tuesday with Ryan Divish
of The (Tacoma) News Tribune. “And the reason I say that: At spring training
our expectations were very high. And I think that was justified. You were
there; this looked really good. I didn’t expect we were going to go to the
World Series, but I thought we were going to be very, very competitive.”

“So I was very disappointed,” he added, “probably more disappointed than
any season that I’ve gone through. But there were good things that happened.
And I think our fans see that, too. They see that young talent, and we just
have to be — ‘patient’ is not a good word because our fans have been more
than patient — but we certainly have to stay the course. We have to work
with this young talent and develop it. So that’s where I’m at.”


It was all but necessary for Lincoln to tell Mariners fans where he’s at, as
he and the rest of team management are now mired in not just another
challenging offseason, but also in a search for a new skipper. Wedge up and
quit last week, citing philosophical differences between him and Mariners
brass, despite the team’s apparent desire to bring him back for 2014.

Wedge’s decision to leave, now that his three-year contract has expired, of
course sparked further turmoil among M’s fans. As has seemingly become the
routine in Seattle, many fans are calling for the ouster of not just GM Jack
Zduriencik, but also the senior management — Lincoln and team President
Chuck Armstrong. Nevertheless, all three of those guys will remain at Safeco
next year.

Asked whether he still has faith in Zduriencik, who is now heading into his
sixth year with the organization, Lincoln said Zduriencik has done a “superb
job” of scouting for baseball talent but has had to learn on the job to be
an MLB general manager.

“I think he’s done a fair job, OK job in the composition of the
major-league roster,” Lincoln said. “I think he’s made his share of
mistakes, but no general manager bats 1.000. I think he learns from his
mistakes, which is positive.

“I think you have to be fair when you recognize general managers are going
to make mistakes. And even decisions that are not mistakes turn out to be bad
because the player gets injured, or the player doesn’t perform up to
expectations based on history and whatnot. So overall, I continue to have
confidence in Jack going forward.”

The entire interview — all of which Divish valiantly transcribed — is worth
a read on the TNT’s website. In his comments, Lincoln addresses questions
regarding the Mariners’ focus on profitability versus baseball prowess, how
the team spreads its money between payroll and other expenses, what kind of
talent the ballclub wants to acquire this offseason, and even where he sees
himself and the organization in five years.


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→ sabertomoaki:好長一篇@@，CEO出來說話了，所以要有大動做了嗎XD?
→ sabertomoaki:晚點再看完
推 mdfh:乾脆也請JZ走人吧
推 Pennyjr:JZ最適合的位置是球探長，可以改用這個位置聘他好了
推 Guillen:其實從訪談中可以感覺到 Lincoln 已經意識到 Z 比較勝任球
→ Guillen:探長
推 hahabis:天阿.. Z其實頭兩年做的很棒耶, 清掉不少豬頭 B遺毒
→ hahabis:還續了King..記得當初水兵還有 "In Z we trust!" 的標語
推 sabertomoaki:我覺的松若的去職是個分水嶺，這之前的Z和之後的，表
→ sabertomoaki:現差很多
推 Nocturnecat:不過那時候若松好像也被版眾罵得不少...沒啥印象了
→ steven36:http://ppt.cc/XDij
推 ryvius0723:恩? 若松已經是這幾年比較少被人譙的教練了
→ ryvius0723:就連當年大家天天幹譙的Hargrove現在看來也不太壞
推 Epsilon:若松是被罵最少的，Hargrove第一年被罵很慘。
推 andynanpa:最近開始流出教頭接任人選的乳摸, 其中最讓我有興趣的是
→ andynanpa:這位: 綠帽的 Infield/Bench Coach Chip Hale. 這位除了
→ andynanpa:年輕(48), 小聯盟教頭戰績不錯外最吸引我的一點...光看
→ andynanpa:這2年綠帽內野陣長出來的那一票, 給他來帶我們的全農場
→ andynanpa:內野應該會有不錯的回報
推 l60km:sorry比較少follow綠帽，內野那一票有哪幾個該歸功於他？
推 andynanpa:Josh Donaldson, Eric Sogard都算是很好的例子. 我注意
→ andynanpa:的點是其實綠帽內野陣這幾年發生卡關(AAA-->MLB)的機率
→ andynanpa:算蠻高的(小弟住灣區, 有實不想注意綠帽都不行XD). 而從
→ andynanpa:12年開始綠帽內野農場順利收割率突然往上拉. 其中的關鍵
→ andynanpa:我目前也只看到這個: Chip Hale被綠帽聘為內野教練:2012
推 okinawa8:因為老哈的繼任實在太爛了..