Gillick team ages

DMZ · November 3, 2008 at 8:00 am · Filed Under Mariners 

Using Baseball-reference data:

Chart of the ages of Pat Gillick Teams

Chart of the ages of Pat Gillick Teams

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10 Responses to “Gillick team ages”

  1. Paul B on November 3rd, 2008 9:21 am

    Presumably, the upward trend during his stay with each team would be a causal factor on the poor performance of the teams after he leaves.

  2. Dobbs on November 3rd, 2008 9:37 am

    Or the poor performance is perhaps because the new GM couldn’t do his job as well as Gillick himself?

    It’s not like Gillick started with everyone he had during his reign here, who’s to say he wouldn’t have kept it up had he stayed longer?

  3. DMZ on November 3rd, 2008 8:59 am

    There’s a follow up to this that I think is even more fascinating.

  4. smb on November 3rd, 2008 9:15 am

    Phils just named Amaro as Gillick’s successor…it will be interesting to see what he does with so much inherited talent in the lineup, whether he tries to get younger quickly or focuses more on other aspects of the roster. Maybe we will have a hint by whether or not he attempts to resign Burrell…I wonder if Gillick would have resigned Burrell if he was sticking around.

  5. diderot on November 3rd, 2008 9:36 am

    How about one more line…the average age of World Series winners along the same period on the horizontal axis…combined hitters and pitchers would be fine.

  6. firova2 on November 3rd, 2008 9:58 am

    Looks like an age chart for Jamie Moyer. Hitters are up there though, especially in Baltimore.

  7. msb on November 3rd, 2008 10:53 am

    ok, I am dim this morning.

    Age H?
    Age P?

    nevermind. hitters/pitchers.

    I was trying to factor in Pat Gillick’s rising age to the graph, as well

  8. dlb on November 3rd, 2008 11:06 am

    Look like Gillick is staying on with the Phils as an advisor so the worries about him lording over Jackie Z seem to be dead.

  9. msb on November 3rd, 2008 11:08 am

    I dunno, he was advising the M’s when Phillies GM.

  10. Paul B on November 3rd, 2008 12:09 pm

    Or the poor performance is perhaps because the new GM couldn’t do his job as well as Gillick himself?

    But that ignores the message in the chart, that Gillick leaves teams with significantly older rosters than when he started.

    who’s to say he wouldn’t have kept it up had he stayed longer?

    If that were true, we’d expect to see an example of where he took a team that was long in the tooth and retooled them to be a young contender.

    Since he has never done that, one must conclude that isn’t the way he works.

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