Indians for Wedge

[BSN07]

http://castrovince.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/09/wedge_entire_coaching_staff_di.html

 

 

I know there going to have interest in Farrell. But there is a clause in his contract making him unavailable until after 2010. Could we see some compensation headed to the Sox, and Farrell heading to Cleveland?

 

 

Edit: I goofed the title while tryign to do to many things at once LOL Mod please fix, thanks.

[redsoxrules]

Wedge... that 2007 manager of the year award should be returned

 

I said it at the time , he f***ing sucks

[Dojji]

yf I was Farrell I'd stay with Boston. Guardians have got a promising young cadre of players there and if some of them start clicking the Guardians are going to be making rapid progress soon, but that's not a situation I'd want to go into because of the number of things that could go wrong, and the lack of GM support.

 

I think Wedge got unfairly blamed for things that aren't the manager's fault. I don't think Lou Brown himself could have taken this gaggle of losers and won the division with them.

 

The GM shares most of the blame for what happened this year IMHO. They lost CC Sabathia off a losing team and their big offseason move is to spend $10M replacing him with.... Kerry Wood? They spent most of the season without anything resembling a first baseman either. The bullpen is also a pile of steaming feces and key offensive players decided to pretty much take the season off. Sizemore springs to mind almost immediately, and so does Hafner.

 

In short this roster wasn't designed to compete so no one should be surprised that it hasn't.

 

The only thing you can really hut Wedge for is the collapse of of Fausto Carmona who just hasn't been the same since JD Drew flattened him in the 2007 ALCS. Partly I'm sure since he went from throwing about 102 1/3 innings in 2006 to 215 in 2007 -- at age 23. That's a heavy workload even if you're ready for it. If you aren't, it's a recipe for disaster.

 

I'm not sure you can blame that on Wedge either though. The Guardians were in a tight pennant race until well after the point of no return. Any other manager in baseball would have done exactly the same and prayed that it didn't bite them.

 

In short, the Guardians didn't do a lot, but theres a whole lot of people who felt the need to shift the blame by firing the manager, instead of fixing things.

 

Now, if Wedge was going to bat for an incompetent coach (who's their pitching coach anyway?) and made it an "over my dead body" issue, well that's another story.

[ORS]

There is no compensation due to Boston for Farrell if he becomes the Guardians' manager. It's a promotion, and compensation isn't due for a higher position.

[suns]

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[RWTP24]

I bet the Sox lift his clause and let him go.

 

Also, from the sounds of it, Cleveland wants him pretty bad.

[suns]

I would love to have farrell.

[pedroia_the_destroyah53]

I likek Eric Wedge for one reason. He graduated the same high school i did.