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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Heading into this winter, with a new general manager almost certainly coming onboard to replace the fired Bill Bavasi, it's doubtful Jim Riggleman has shown enough to be retained. Then again, it's debatable whether he ever could have shown enough.
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
This week's Prospect Hot Sheet by Baseball America ( chat at 3:30 ) is led by Baltimore Orioles' AA RHP Chris Tillman. His dominance at Double-A as a twenty-year-old has gone a long way to the current judgment that Bill Bavasi and the Seattle Mariners were the big losers in last winter's Erik Bedard trade. The fact that Bedard remains on the D.L. with an arm issue further buttresses that assertion....
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Baseball Musings (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
He's only an assistant, but I can't see how this is a good move for the Reds....
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Ballbug (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Larry Stone / The Seattle Times : Reds hire Bill Bavasi — Bill Bavasi, fired as the Mariners' general manager on June 16, was hired today by the Cincinnati Reds as a special assistant to Walt Jocketty, the team's president and general manager. — Bavasi, 50, will advise and assist Jocketty in matters involving the front office …
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Ballbug (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
MLB.com : Bill Bavasi joins Reds front office — Named Special Assistant to Walt Jocketty — CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Reds President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Walt Jocketty today announced the hiring of former Anaheim Angels and Seattle Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi as a special assistant.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Bill Bavasi, fired in June by the Mariners, was hired today by the Cincinnati Reds as a special assistant to the team's president and general manager, Walt Jocketty.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Bill Bavasi lost his job for not doing enough? Or was it for doing too much? Seth Kolloen takes another look.
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Ballbug (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Jim Moore / Seattle Post-Intelligencer : Trade Ichiro? It's a bold but sensible proposition — During last month's news conference announcing the firing of general manager Bill Bavasi, Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln said he was open to trading anyone on the team. — If that's the case, the Mariners should deal Ichiro Suzuki by the July 31 deadline.
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6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The fruit of Bill Bavasi continues to be dealt with by the new administration in Seattle, as the Mariners have released Richie Sexson and placed Eric Bedard on the 15-day DL with a stiff shoulder. The M's have called up RHP Jared Wells and INF Tug Hulett from AAA Tacoma to fill the roster spots. U.S.S. Mariner wonders why Sexson (who could at least hit the odd homer) was DFA'd over Jose Vidro, the...