The man who would be king By Kieran Darcy Page 2 http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=darcy/080601&sportCat=mlb 彼胖提到這篇文章.原文很長我只有post一些有趣的段落。 大家知道老史本來有可能讓女婿繼承洋基，但是後來離婚了。而本文的主角是老史任命 洋基更早之前的老闆，作為老史因為財務醜聞被官方禁止接觸球團事務那一年的代理人 也是老史另一個女兒的老公，1998年離婚且離開洋基。在這之前做過許多重大決策。包 括選進Derek Jeter。(網頁有Jeter小時候的照片，帥是很帥...... but...that smile looks kinda retard) 傻賓都還在當GM，他現在卻只能當老師...... TAMPA, Fla. -- It's a warm, sun-drenched weekday morning outside D.W. Webb Middle School, in the inner-city Town 'n' Country neighborhood of Tampa. Under a cloudless sky, Joe Molloy, a boulder of a man, bespectacled and clad in a gray Webb Middle School T-shirt, khaki shorts and black New Balance sneakers, is preparing for his first phys ed class of the day. He's going to have his sixth-graders play kickball, so he's placing orange cones around the grass field to serve as the bases. . . . . . . /Molloy被任命管理的過程/ ↓ Molloy could have picked any of Steinbrenner's many business ventures to join. But he figured he'd take advantage of his sports background. So after finishing up the school year, Molloy went to work for the Yankees full-time in the summer of 1988. He traveled around the country to the Yankees' minor league affiliates, basically taking a crash course on the entire organization. He began assuming more and more responsibility with the franchise, particularly its minor league operations, and he eventually rose to the position of vice president. . . On July 30, 1990, commissioner Fay Vincent banned George Steinbrenner from Major League Baseball for paying a known gambler to collect dirt on Dave Winfield, with whom Steinbrenner was having a financial dispute. The Yankees had to appoint a new managing general partner. . . . . . So in early March 1992, at the ripe old age of 30 and four years removed from being an elementary school teacher, Joe Molloy was chosen to become the new managing general partner of the New York Yankees. . . . . /Molloy加入洋基後的改變，Molloy做過的重大決策/ ↓ A change in philosophy was already under way in the organization at this point. With Steinbrenner absent and Nederlander largely keeping his hands off the baseball side of the business, the Yankees' baseball staff -- led by general manager Gene Michael and also including current San Francisco Giants GM Brian Sabean and current Yankees GM Brian Cashman, among others -- was able to go about building the team in a different way. For years, the Yankees had made a habit of trading away their top prospects for established veterans, many times getting the short end of the deal. Years of bad trades and poor free-agent signings finally caught up to them when the Yankees finished in last place in 1990 -- the first time that had happened since 1966. Michael & Co. wanted to take a different approach: They wanted to hold on to young talent like Bernie Williams and minor leaguers like Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera, and build the team via the farm system. /老史被禁止接觸球團事務以後管理階層決策很順利。/ ↓ That continued under Molloy's watch. He listened to his baseball experts and was also a proponent of that philosophy. "We kinda took advantage while George was gone and put the money into player development and scouting," Molloy say "In '90 or '91, I commissioned a little study. At the time, there were 52 players on other teams' 40-man rosters that were originally drafted and developed by the New York Yankees. So we were doing something right, but there was never the opportunity to see the fruits from the labor." /Molloy決定選進並簽下Jeter/ ↓ Two extremely important moves were made with Molloy's blessing in 1992: trading outfielder Roberto Kelly for Paul O'Neill in November and signing starting pitcher Jimmy Key in December. But the most important thing Molloy did while in charge of the Yankees? He green-lighted the signing of a young shortstop named Derek Jeter. Jeter was regarded as one of the top prospects -- if not the No. 1 prospect -- available in the 1992 amateur draft. But his agent was looking for a $700,000-plus signing bonus, and many teams weren't willing to pay that much at the time. The Yankees had the sixth pick in the draft, and their scouts thought Jeter might still be available. So they asked Molloy if he'd be willing to spend that kind of money. Molloy had some concerns. Jeter was a high school player, and he knew Steinbrenner preferred drafting college players because they were further along in their development and more likely to make the big leagues quickly. But Molloy ultimately deferred to his scouting department. "I told them, 'OK, if [Jeter] is there, if you guys want him, we'll take him,'" Molloy says. /呃.....ㄎㄎ/ Molloy was generally well-regarded in the Yankees organization, despite not being a baseball lifer like many of the other front-office personnel. "He knew what his strong suits were, and what they weren't," says Mitch Lukevics, the current director of minor league operations for the Tampa Bay Rays, who served in the same capacity with the Yankees during Molloy's tenure. "When he didn't know something, he asked a lot of questions. He listened to a lot of opinions, and made educated decisions. . . . . . --

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