Elktonnick

In any organization, when employees continually underperform and produce sub par performance the shareholders look toward a failure of management. What we saw yesterday was not an isolated event. Any high quality organization would recognize management failure when they see it.

Bloom did exactly what I expected him to do today. For all purposes he was done when he traded Kike Hernandez. With all the players coming back, he really was under no pressure to do anything. Given the schedule which is favorable the Sox have a reasonable chance of making the playoffs and keeping the fans interested until mid September at least. That may not make the more rabid fans happy but it should be enough to keep John Henry from making a change. Although with John Henry he could just as easily fire Bloom because he does not like the way he combs his hair.

I know you spend the majority of your waking day posting your laborious screeds of baseball trivia to this board and have no other interests in life but highly successful people know how to delegate so they can concentrate on what is most important. They don't focus on the petty minutiae like you do. A merely high priority and a top priority are two different concepts unless the meaning of the word top is foreign to you

Clearly English is not your first language. It is obvious to virtually all Red Sox fans except to a half dozen or so who are the most frequent posters to this board that Henry is more concerned with other matters than what his wage slaves Kennedy and Bloom are doing everyday.

First of all, I posted "not a top priority". If you are going to misconstrue what I posted at least quote me accurately. Secondly the article confirms my general thesis that FSG's top priority is expanding their holdings not running the Red Sox. FSG has been soliciting new investors with the express intent to expand its portfolio. That is their primary agenda. Everything else is secondary judging by this gist of this article and similar pieces written elsewhere.

BOSTON (CBS) -- Fenway Sports Group recently acquired the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. The Red Sox' ownership does not intend to stop there. In an interview with The Boston Globe, Gerry Cardinale -- founder of RedBird Capital Partners, which invested $750 million in FSG last year -- laid out the ambitions of the group with regard to adding more teams to the portfolio. "I would be very disappointed if I don't significantly increase the amount of capital that we've invested in Fenway to date for more opportunities," Cardinale told Michael Silverman. "I hope and I think we're going to have that opportunity to do so. That's what buying into that platform should be all about." Cardinale said that adding an NBA team is "a real top priority" for FSG. The group would also like to own an NFL team, a WNBA team, a cricket team, and another soccer team (FSG already owns Liverpool FC). "Everything's in play I would say, but as usual, we're going to have a very strict funnel," Cardinale told Silverman. "The bar has never been higher in terms of what really fits in the [FSG] portfolio. You should think about us looking to add other teams and the businesses around them. You should look at us building businesses within the platform itself, like I've done in my career at RedBird and Goldman, and you should look at continuing to evaluate the constructs." MARCH 7, 2022 / 11:39 AM / CBS BOSTON

It has been fairly obvious that the Red Sox are no longer FSG's top priority. It has been well reported that FSG wants to acquire an NBA franchise to add to their empire. Bloom's job is to field a good enough team not to depreciate the franchises overall value

I remember when Herb Score got hit and some years later when Matt Clement got hit Neither were the same afterwards.

Congratulations that is most cogent post you've written in the past year.

Once again you misinterpret what I post. You do that a lot I never said Bloom signed Sale I said like Sale Bloom signs players who are injuries waiting to happen.

Those back will be injured again. Like Sale, most of Blooms signings are just injuries waiting to happen. It is continous cycle. Bloom shops in the broken toys aisle .

No. The only right question to Fire Bloom is why keep him? Bloom's only real talent is signing injury prone ball players. For example Peter Abraham reporting indicates rehab is not going well for several of Bloom's blunders

Once again you misquote what I post. I said put the ball in "play successfully" .

Your comparison is interesting but utterly irrelevant to the question posed but the title of the thread i.e.Fire Bloom The fact that Bloom chose not resign the two is absolutely germaine to a valid evaluation of the current rotation.

No it is not since both were members of last years team. If you want an honest analysis of the question.

Functionally batting average tells the frequency a ball player successfully puts a ball in play. Putting balls in play is an important function in and of itself. As a coach/ manager I want my players to put balls in play successfully. It is as simple as that.

Why

Raffy looks lost. Anyone who actually watches him play as opposed to listening or reading about the games should be able to see that. He is not the same player he was last year. In his defense, the whole team is a mess. He is just the most overpaid player for his sub par performance on a pathetically mediocre team.

Devers would be better player but he is still too immature. He needs a strong big brother presence around him such as Bogaerts. Xander 's departure has adversely affected Devers play IMO

Bloom and Cora deserve each other.

Poorly constructed, poorly coached and poorly managed. Trifecta

It does not have to be a conspiracy. Your mind is creating one where none needs to exist It would just be a prudent business practice for a pro team to determine what DOD intentions were regarding a particular athlete with a military obligation. That doesn't imply or mean that Phildephia put any pressure on DOD to favor any particular outcome. They would just want to know what DOD's intentions were. Like I said based I my experience this would be a fairly routiine query. Depending on the job I had at the time I drafted countless replies to congressional offices making inquiries on a constituents behalf regarding what action we planned to take on a particular matter.

Pennsylvania has two members of the Armed Services Committee. It takes no imagination or special knowedge to believe that the Phillies front office would ask their congressional rep to inquire of the Pentagon regarding their intentions. Such inquiries by congressional offices are routine. When I was in gov't we got such queries daily. Every congressional office has people to handle such requests and DOD has a huge staff to process such queries. It would be the height of incompetence by the Phillies not to have made such an inquiry. It costs them nothing to do so. Moreover there is nothing illegal or unethical by anyone to make such a request or to receive a legitimate reply.

More to the point is how many games will he be on the injured list in 2023.

How many innings did Kike play at center in 2021 , 716 How many innings did he play in center in 22 , 669. Hardly a statistical significant difference to say that his 22 DRS are any less valid.