As part of the inquiry, baseball investigators have interviewed the Red Sox team trainers and outfielder Chris Young, a former Yankees player. The Red Sox told league investigators that the team’s manager, John Farrell, general manager, Dave Dombrowski, and other front-office officials were not aware of the sign-stealing operation, the people said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/sports/baseball/boston-red-sox-stealing-signs-yankees.html?smid=tw-share
The Red Sox have apparently added a modern — and illicit — twist: They used an Apple Watch to gain an advantage against the Yankees and other teams.
This place isn't a hivemind. There are all sorts of people with all sorts of opinions. Farrell is going to get roasted for everything he does whether it's right or wrong.
Farrell:
13 - WS
14 - last damn place
15 - last damn place
16 - 0 for ALDS
17 - ?
If they can't even show up to the ALDS this year, why would he stay around? Francona was fired after not making the WS for 4 straight years. Is it Farrell's turn now?
I'm hoping it's just a rough patch. Hard to really call it an implosion until a lot of behind the scenes stuff gets leaked.
They have a lead in the division and an ok schedule. They should be able to win the division.
What he needs to do is save his money because he's going to be out of baseball sooner than later. He's made over $4M so far. Hope he still has a big chunk of it.
For real. There are some really terrible opinions being expressed on here.
It'd be like saying "well, MVP knows much more about advanced stats because he's a boy who played baseball and has a CPA, Kimmi is just a teacher." That's just dumb and offensive to me. Sorry that you have to deal with nonsense like this from time to time.
Ok, so don't hire Valentine again? Find someone who is actually competent and not all about personal branding?
I highly doubt Disarcina rubs people the wrong way like Valentine did.
http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=5409&position=3B&type=&gds=2017-08-26&gde=2017-09-04&season=
He's on an epic tear right now! Put up an SOS for all belt buckles in the SF area.
I do like that he's doing WORSE in SF than he was already doing in BOS.
I beat up on FO for being a little slow on promoting Devers, but I could at least talk myself into it. With Brentz, it just makes zero sense here. There's too much upside. Even if he just wins one extra game with a pinch hit, it's worth it to get rid of a AAAA reliever wasted on the 40 man roster.
I hope Brentz gets a real chance somewhere next year (I wish it was in BOS, but don't think it will be).
On the last SoxProspects podcast, they noted how Barfield's HR total is indicative of him just being able to wait for bad pitches and that he'd never see the same flat sliders or poorly located offspeed stuff in MLB.