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Eric Wedge is an extremely impressive leader. If he hadn't been a baseball man, he'd have been a three-star general.
Man, Wedge can't work miracles but I sure love the way he talks.
The Seattle cyber-sphere wants to view him (and everything...) through the prism of whatever the state of our saber understandings happen to be at the moment. Through that lens, he (and every ML manager in the game) fails to astonish.
For an individual seeing a deeper, stats-and-intuition-blended, picture -- let's say Jack Zduriencik -- you've got a manager here who is (against all odds) running a tight ship and doing it quite thoughtfully.