Laurila: Q&A with Dick Williams on culminating the Reds’ rebuild
From SABR member David Laurila at FanGraphs on February 20, 2019:
In an interview that ran here in March 2017, Dick Williams went in depth on innovation, infrastructure, and the rebuild his team had begun a year-and-a-half earlier. The Cincinnati Reds’ then GM — he’s now the President of Baseball Operations — told me, “In another couple of seasons, we expect to be competing again.”
The timeline was met. Baseball’s oldest professional franchise, as suggested by moves they made over the offseason (and confirmed by Williams), is no longer focusing primarily on the future. The focus is on the here and now.
Williams expounded on the moves the team has made, and on what it takes to build a sustainably strong organization, at the onset of spring training.
Read the full article here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/dick-williams-on-culminating-the-reds-rebuild/
Originally published: February 20, 2019. Last Updated: February 20, 2019.