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Newton is on the Green Line - so he's easy to find. That said, he has worked in tha Theo-built front office. So perhaps acclimation to this front office and practices whatever will be easier. I dunno.
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They also kept Bregman and Altuve (the most beloved of the playoff heroes). They also are not the Red Sox - which sounds both snotty but creates a certain amount of expectation that is entirely justifiable.
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Oh he'd be frustrating ... but at $11M a year it'd be easier to absorb.
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I have serious doubts Nola leaves Philly - particularly with the postseason success.
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The team missed the playoffs by 8 games and fewer at the deadline. So it was not that far off. One would think Bloom's plan of replacing his production at the corners by the end of 2021 with betting on a half season of Bobby Dalbec platoon production and pixie dust was dicey at the time.
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When the Red Sox started just signing hopium randos like Kluber, it doubled how bummed I was they didn't just re-sign Eovaldi. We knew Nate's arm might never stay attached to his body ever again. But we also knew Eovaldi was still a very good starter who has a high leverage track record when his arm cooperated.
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And really that one clutch situation was coming out of the bullpen in extra innings in Game 4 of that series. It's part of his record - but also usually above and beyond the call of duty of most starters.
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When you have Boston's money and fan support - fans should expect a 90 win team every year. It might not always happen for various reasons, but that is the expectation. This year, any win expectation higher than 85 or 86 felt ridiculously optimistic.
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I think it less the drought than letting their best homegrown player go and then lecturing the fans on demanding nice things.
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That neatly sums it up. If a franchise like the Red Sox with its resources, is not going to keep the best homegrown (position) player since Fred Lynn - then you have to wonder what the hell we're doing here.
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I think the philosophy on player acquisition has largely not changed. What has changed primarily is the attitude towards the big league club.
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A lot of candidates see a very reactive, thin skinned management and uprooting one's family is an ordeal if management is going to lose patience in year 3 of a 5 year plan.
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The last time the road team won all 7 games in a best of 7 - the only other time iirc - was the Nationals beating the Astros in the 2019 WS.
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Considering how they are running the interviews with a 1st round/2nd round ... right now I am sure the candidates have been sorted by pass/fail - and not much else. I suspect this Round 2 is where they'll have some real answers - and possibly get a window into how other FOs are doing stuff.
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I think Huntington sounds like the sort of guy the team would hire to mentor a young GM - like how the team hired Allard Baird to work with Theo.
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I am sure it helps a little. But I think the interviews as much as anything is helping gain some industry intel.
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Boy Eovaldi provides a lot of high leverage performance for the cost of a cup of coffee or two.
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Pretty much this. The team had money (they always have money) knowing they needed pitching and chose to ignore pitching floor almost entirely. While I cannot guarantee it would have gotten Boston into the postseason - it would have put them right there. The industry turned to big time CBT manipulation with contract structure - so I can't shrug and say the Red Sox were unable to do that.
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Financial muscle is one of the team's actual competitive advantages and thus should be leveraged as much as possible. And it's totally reasonable for fans to wonder when it isn't so.
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There is almost no chance the business is not rakin it in ... all these franchises are doing great.
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Maybe. But there are ways to manipulate the CBT that he could easily do if he wanted (and we saw running rampant this offseason). And either way, the Sox plummeted in payroll relative to the league, so there was a pretty big overcorrection.
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The former.
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The statement about the budget takes as a given a premise about Red Sox resources that I don't accept.
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Ruben Amaro got promoted form within to succeed Pat Gillick in 2009 where the Phillies won the pennant after winning the 2008 world series. So there is a former player who was a #2 in a baseball operation and became a #1 right after the World Series.
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Well, it was good for ownership's wallet