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A secret missive has come across our new desk here at the California Examiner that PaulECee, the polarizing GM of the California Kodiaks, will be hit hit tampering allegations in the League Journal, the Daily Keg, this week. This comes as a shock to some, who believe that PaulECee is just really bad at his job, while it is no surprise to those who were around to see the pre Mike Morla era.
At question is California's decision to patrol centre field with an aging Sayid bin Sariyah, and bringing up two minor league pitchers that struggled the previous week in the annual Bakersfield AAA Father Son game. Sayid currently carries a -6.0 range in centrefold, and Cooler and Diemer pitched a combined 8 innings and gave up an astounding 11 hits and eight earned runs in their two starts.
Looking at California's minor league system report, it is certainly clear that California is in full rebuild mode, but that does not give the California GM the right to affect the balance of the league by intentionally fielding poorly constructed teams with the sole intent of losing.
Our contact inside the Kodiak front offices has shed some light on the situation. Assistant GM Tristan Jackson replied to our request for answers with the following. "I've been working closely on the roster this year, and I can tell you that the moves we've made, have been with integrity. We shut down our two young aces as their inning threshold is getting two high, at the some time injury prone Tommy Campbell was shut down for a week, as he's suffered two minor injuries recently and was just given some extra rest. This forced us to call up two of our scrubs from the minors. We also used the same strategy last year, that cost us the number one overall pick and consequently lost out on Roddy 'Kodiak' Sierra"
Fair enough, but what about the bin Sariyah experiment in centrefield? Jackson responded, "That was an attempt to continue to develop Cupp and Peery in the corner spots. Unfortunately due to PaulECee's infatuation with paying an aging DH $32 000 000 a year, we do not have the roster flexibility that we'd like, so we made a conscious effort to focus on our youth."
Off the record, we have been assured that this week will see a different Kodiak line-up. Apparently the new owner, and his focus on extreme winning have put Jackson in charge of the lineup the next three weeks, while the fate of PaulECee's GM tenure is being weighed by the ownership group.
At question is California's decision to patrol centre field with an aging Sayid bin Sariyah, and bringing up two minor league pitchers that struggled the previous week in the annual Bakersfield AAA Father Son game. Sayid currently carries a -6.0 range in centrefold, and Cooler and Diemer pitched a combined 8 innings and gave up an astounding 11 hits and eight earned runs in their two starts.
Looking at California's minor league system report, it is certainly clear that California is in full rebuild mode, but that does not give the California GM the right to affect the balance of the league by intentionally fielding poorly constructed teams with the sole intent of losing.
Our contact inside the Kodiak front offices has shed some light on the situation. Assistant GM Tristan Jackson replied to our request for answers with the following. "I've been working closely on the roster this year, and I can tell you that the moves we've made, have been with integrity. We shut down our two young aces as their inning threshold is getting two high, at the some time injury prone Tommy Campbell was shut down for a week, as he's suffered two minor injuries recently and was just given some extra rest. This forced us to call up two of our scrubs from the minors. We also used the same strategy last year, that cost us the number one overall pick and consequently lost out on Roddy 'Kodiak' Sierra"
Fair enough, but what about the bin Sariyah experiment in centrefield? Jackson responded, "That was an attempt to continue to develop Cupp and Peery in the corner spots. Unfortunately due to PaulECee's infatuation with paying an aging DH $32 000 000 a year, we do not have the roster flexibility that we'd like, so we made a conscious effort to focus on our youth."
Off the record, we have been assured that this week will see a different Kodiak line-up. Apparently the new owner, and his focus on extreme winning have put Jackson in charge of the lineup the next three weeks, while the fate of PaulECee's GM tenure is being weighed by the ownership group.