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'Communication' the biggest key for any manager

By Rob Neyer
ESPN.com

Friday, November 22, 2002

Every October, the mysterious process begins. Managers are fired, and then managers are hired. Come to think of it, the firing part isn't much of a mystery. Nor is the hiring part. Mostly, what's a mystery is what happens in between the firing and the hiring. We do know there's an interview process, and these days most teams interview a number of candidates. When Mariners general manager Pat Gillick was looking to hire a new manager this month, he interviewed something like a dozen candidates b ...

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