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I'm glad you said it CPB.  I warn't gonna.  :- )
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I think the standing O's at the blog functions over Gutierrez probably have, at their bottom, a sense of "look what happens when you do things our way!"
Which, whatever.... it begins to dawn that Zduriencik was always doing things *his* way...
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As I see it, Zduriencik is a booked-up Good Ole Boy, one with immense intuition, a 15-years-younger Pat Gillick who has an acquaintance with hard data -- but who is just as likely to bypass them in favor of his own good judgment. 
Early on, folks read Zduriencik as a Ricciardi or DePodesta plus old-timey connections.  That wasn't him at all, IMHO.
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It need hardly be said that SSI credits Zduriencik with having twice the light bulbs that SSI has (or that Bill Bavasi had).  He and Wok are real finds.  But they've never brought a uniquely sabermetric approach.