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Cleveland, Washington should consider Valentine

By Buster Olney

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Bobby Valentine's first full season as manager of the Mets was 1997, a year in which I took a job with The New York Times, and I covered him for just that one summer before being moved to the Yankees beat. But in conversations with general managers and scouts and coaches, I find myself constantly citing observations or decisions he made and rationales he used as examples. He was among the first managers or front-office types I heard really focusing on on-base percentage and pitch counts, and al ...

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