The team had not reached the postseason since 2001. Scouting director Bob Fontaine Jr. felt pressure from his boss, general manager Bill Bavasi, who felt pressure from his boss, CEO Howard Lincoln.

"Darin's a classic example of the Bill Bavasi approach. He's been in the league nine years, and he's signed three contracts. That's all. That's absolutely all." Meanwhile, Bavasi's first offseason ...

The third co-host, Bill Bavasi, brings a wealth of baseball experience having served as General Manager of both the Mariners and Angels, farm director of the Dodgers, VP of Player Development and ...

For Angels general manager Bill Bavasi, it was about fielding a team, not winning games. “We weren’t fixated on putting together a good club,” Bavasi said. “It wasn’t an exercise in ...

He was promoted to clubhouse manager in 1988, and two years later, Bill Bavasi moved Parker into the front office. Parker was sent to scout school and made assistant director of scouting and ...

“Back in the day, there were guys like Mark Belanger, Jonnie LeMaster and others who were really good shortstops who didn’t hit a ton,” former Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi said.

Formers Mariners shortstop, Carlos Guillen was the first player swapped in the long line of failed Mariner trades under Bill Bavasi. Guillen is best remembered in a Mariners uniform for his ...

At that point, MLB decided to put in two longtime employees, Bill Bavasi and Ken Krasner, to run AFL. Bavasi is running the league's operations side, while Krasner is handling marketing.

Where a man puts his feet constitutes a good portion of his life, and just about all of the job. There’s no guide for it. He knows, he feels, or he doesn’t. The feet lead, the heart and soul ...

Instead, it flopped. That cost general manager Bill Bavasi his job in mid-June. … Bedard (6-4) was the only M’s starter with a winning record. He was placed on the injured list July 10 with ...

Towers had that kind of effect. “I remember I was with my brothers having a few beverages,’’ said Bill Bavasi, the son of legendary GM Buzzie Bavasi, “and we started to argue which of us ...

When Bill Bavasi took over as the director of the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau in November 2014, he knew change was inevitable. The Bureau has existed in one form or another since 1974 ...