Well, that certainly sounds like Goldie, doesn’t it? He went on to mention that players “get to know those guys on such a personal level, you’re around them every day for eight months of the year and get to know their family - you know so much about them.” That’s an angle we, as fans, probably don’t think about often enough. We’ve a tendency to regard managers and GM’s as pieces on a chess-board, and players as defined by their statistics. They’re human beings too, not sport-playing automatons [as is clear if you watched Daniel Hudson’s interview after the last game!
Paul Goldschmidt discusses the firings of Chip Hale and Dave Stewart
