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Everything posted by sk7326
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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
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Yeah. The man has been in baseball forever. The idea he couldn't helm a reload was daft. Yes he traded his entire farm in Detroit - but his owner wanted that and the approach got results. I am an NBA fan and I look at how the Celtics have reacted to having a young core that is so close to the top of the mountain - they have decided to damn the torpedos and push as many chips into taking advantage of a championship window. It makes the aftermath of the 2018 Red Sox monster even more disheartening.
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They won immediately once he took over and fell off when the pitching fell apart. His first year back in his second term the team was 6 wins away from another banner. The last two years have been tough but there has also been a paucity in talent, particularly on the mound.
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Per McAdam, Paul Toboni, the team's VP for Amateur and player development has also been interviewed.
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Looking at who HAS interviewed, both internal and external - it definitely looks like Boston is using this as a chance to take some 30,000 foot view of how the org is running ... - Pitching development - The scouting vs analytics components for the winning recipe Huntington is particularly interesting, with some real GM experience as well as experience developing pitching.
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Per Speier at the Globe, the names who HAVE interviewed that we know Eddie Romero Jr Craig Breslow, Cubs assistant GM/director of pitching ... lives in Newton Neal Huntington, Cleveland special assistant to the GM ... Pirates GM 2007-2019 which included 3 straight playoff appearances Thad Levine, Twins GM ... Rangers assistant GM 2005-2016 ... Rangers won the pennant 2010 and 2011
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A replacement for Bloom's duties - whatever you want to call it.
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I think Bloom can be successful - but it might have to be in an org that gives him the backing to tear it to the studs. Ng might be a better fit here where you are trying to turn an aircraft carrier.
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Yeah. Really, Epstein and Cherington were part of the original mangement team (or at least the one the team settled on after the ownership took over). They didn't have their own people. I think there are a lot of industry respected baseball folks here that a CBO would be happy to inherit. I think some of the apprehension might very well be dealing with Sam Kennedy.
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One of the tricky things here - besides ownership's itchy trigger finger - is that you are inheriting a baseball operation with a lot of people in place (and many of them good). Ng clearly has a lot of corporate experience i.e. being in front offices and should be able to navigate that.
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McAdam reported Mike Hill ... https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/10/mlb-notebook-red-sox-encounter-resistance-in-front-office-search-but-one-target-surfaces.html
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There is a pretty good case for Ohtani being MVP this year on his bat alone, despite missing the final month.
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If it is a signal they will like, pay for top end talent and stuff, it's one thing. It can be a both/and thing, not an either/or. There is some cynical reasoning at work here as well. The team is nearly bereft of star power - and so the team might want to import some.
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Ohtani's relationship with New Balance could be a big factor here.
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They didn't have a Top 10 payroll!! That was a choice. The money was there. The money is always there.
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For free agents, the list is two items long: 1. Money 2. What can you do for my career? And - think of it in terms of your real life job - all things being equal, would you rather join a well run company or a shoddily run one? Now baseball is different in that no team is in danger of missing payroll, but those considerations are still there.
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Right. Last year the team had the 12th highest payroll in the league. There was definitely room to add outside pitching. While I don't want the team to be stupid about spending ... as Law put succinctly they're the Boston bleeping Red Sox and need to start acting like it again.