Padres general manager Jed Hoyer, a couple of weekends ago on the panel I moderated at the SABR convention:
Whatever Gets You Through The Season
↵↵“Every night you want to win; I mean, I’ve broken my share of phones. But you can’t go up and down with your team every day; it’s like watching individual stocks. … It’s not an effective way to manage. You can’t make decisions that way. … I like to look back in 10-game increments or in 30-game increments. That way, you don’t go up and down.”
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While that was happening, Hoyer's team was coming oh-so-close to pitching its first no-hitter in franchise history, only to lose in excruciating fashion. And he took it like a trooper. Here are more quotes from the panelists -- Hoyer, along with ex-Dodgers GMs Fred Claire and Dan Evans -- along with a link to the audio of the whole thing.
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