October 12, 2002
Savy Sabean:
Tom Krasovic of the SD Union-Tribune writes about Brian Sabean's ability to trade away the wrong pitchers and keep the right ones. Sabean gives some credit to a reliever from the 1970's:
Yesterday afternoon, Sabean chatted with a long-armed man who sported a handlebar mustache. He is Dick Tidrow, the team's vice president of player personnel. Previously he worked 13 seasons as a major league pitcher.
"In some ways, it starts with Dick," Sabean said.
Dick Tidrow was part of a trade that started to resurrect the Yankees in the 1970's. He came to the Yankees with Chris Chambliss and Cecil Upshaw, and was an important part of their run of success from 1976 to 1978. If he's Sabean's advisor on pitching, he's doing a good job.
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