<p>12 is the right number. No team (well, few) has gone very long with an 11 man staff. Used to be the rule....back when you had 4 guys throwing 200 innings each. And a couple of those guys threw 250! The '72 A's went (essentially) with 10 #Men, but two of those guys threw 560 innings. The '82 Cards went with an 11 man staff, but got 500 innings out of their top two. The '92 Jays went with 11 #Men, two of them throwing 456 innings. The 2002 Angels went with 12 #Men, the top two getting 423.
<p>I will never get tired of her story, leaving college early and being booed for it when it's normal for #Men in the NBA to do it!</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - gnomie - 2/27/16 8:54pm<br><p>And she will be able to share that for many years to come.</p>
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<p>The example she gave was, she was speaking at a conference and at the end she said "I'll only take 2 more questions." Her last 2 questions were from #Men. Later a woman approached her to point out that A) when she made her announce#Ment all the wo#Men had put their hands down but none of the #Men did, and B) she hadn't even noticed it herself.</p>
<p>Yes, it's very true about audacious #Men getting rewarded, and she says "managers need to be aware of this, but you also need to be more audacious yourself."</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - Erika B - 1/14/16 9:34am<br><p>Which is the kind of thing that made the feminist blogosphere furious, but I appreciate it as a blunt statement of business advice from an experienced professional.</p>
<p>Seriously...Dipoto thinks he's a God among #Men for his judg#Ment of players and their character. He thinks he's invented a new moneyball. Either he has...and we're about to get a big lesson...or he is just another GM...and he's awful.</p>
