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Leaders of Men | Don't Worry About the Vase

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In his first five games as manager, all of which he lost, Willie made more decisions wrong than I thought possible. If he needed to change pitchers, he waited. Other times he changed pitchers for no reason. Starting lineups made zero sense. Position players bunted. And so on. He cost us at least one of those games. My friend Seth and I called for Willie’s head. He would go on to an excellent 97 win season in 2006, come in second in manager-of-the-year voting, get a contract extension, and only get fired after wearing out our starting pitchers so much that we experienced one of the most epic late season collapses in baseball history in 2007, followed by a horrible 2008. Willie’s in-game decisions did not improve. If anything, they got worse. Despite this, we came to understand why Willie got and kept his job. Willie Randolph was a leader of men. Players liked Willie. They wanted to play for him, work hard for him, be the best they could be. They put the team first. He created a positive

Leaders of Men | Don't Worry About the Vase Don't Worry About the Vase Trying to dig out from minus a million points Skip to content Home About ← Seek Fair Expectations of Others’ Models Zeroing Out → Leaders of Men Posted on October 29, 2017 by TheZvi Related to (Eliezer Yudkowsky): Inadequacy and Modesty Epistemic Status: Confident. No sports knowledge required. In 2005, Willie Randolph became manager of the New York Mets. In his first five games as manager, all of which he lost, Willie made more decisions wrong than I thought possible. If he needed to change pitche

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