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- Updated: August 27, 2016
NEW YORK — Orioles manager Buck Showalter is a hard-nosed, knowledgeable baseball man, and nobody knows that better than Dan Duquette, the club’s executive vice president of baseball operations.
Duquette gives Showalter a wide berth to do his job on the field. Plus, Showalter has a large voice in the daily shuffles of the 25-man Major League roster he must manipulate to win games.
Duquette is well aware that the dugout is Showalter’s bailiwick, and unlike the trend of some of Major League Baseball’s younger general managers, he doesn’t intrude.
The lineup is Showalter’s decision.
“I think that’s the manager’s purview, I really do, because he’s accountable to the players, right?” Duquette told MLB.com before the Orioles lost their second consecutive game to the Yankees on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, this one 13-5. “And the manager runs the ballclub. But I do encourage percentage baseball. It’s not real complicated.”
It’s an old-school relationship forged on a background of analytics and new technology that gives an experienced skipper a lot more information to manage a game, said Duquette, who was GM of the Red Sox in 2002 before returning to the game with the Orioles in 2012.
“The biggest adjustment is the speed of the media, social media,” Duquette said. “Everything is, like, happening now. The technology has evolved, too. There’s a lot more measured on the field. In any business you have to be aware of how things improve. The technology has made it easier for managers to manage.”
Showalter may not agree with that. It’s still a tough job, and he’s had some success, managing the Yankees, D-backs, Rangers and Orioles to 1,410 wins and a .520 winning percentage in his almost 18 seasons.
For Showalter, there was a four-year gap between his last two jobs. He took over the Orioles in 2010. Duquette inherited Showalter, and both have the backing of owner and chief executive officer Peter Angelos.
Showalter is pretty old-fashioned in his approach.
“Sometimes too much knowledge can be a bad thing,” he said. …
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