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The first man on the most beloved team of my life ... the 2004 Red Sox ... to pass away. And of course, he is one of the N-1 members of that team, for whom this news breaks my heart.
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The thing between 2013 and 2014 was that they lost two 6-win players ... Ellsbury going to NY and Victorino turning into a pumpkin ... without any juice replacing them. I do think that replacing Bobby Valentine with a normal human being helped - but a reversal of injury luck played at least as big a role. But the larger point is - Cora has done a nice job overall here. I don't see a case where he has squandered a roster. Now the Sox going in another direction is not some wild injustice ... but Cora will have plenty of suitors.
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So you're saying the Mookie trade was ... bad? I did not know that. Pivetta but a bit better would be about a 3 win starter ... and if we had a couple of 3 win starters, this team would have been alive for a postseason bid most likely.
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We know Cora's contract runs out next year. And we know that the org likes him, and we know that he is able to work with the baseball research staff - and the Red Sox are going to still be heavily into data no matter who gets hired. I think Bloom came here intending to do a good job - and he did what management wanted him to do. Management did not want to take the PR hit for its priorities so Bloom is gone. Nature of the bidness.
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If they could get an "ace" sort of pitcher it would help. But I agree in general - what the team needs is at least two #3ish starters (say, what Bello did this year). We need Pivetta's reliability with a better pitcher.
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Given how short the terms on the deals were - I am going to guess there was some organizational pressure to not take on longer term.
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Yes. And as it turns out - you need pitchers to field a baseball team! Whoops.
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Devers has not been great this season, but he has been a 5 win player before and is a doddering 26. This team is not as good as a 108 win team. Stop the presses.
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Or you look at whatever his top lieutenant is. Hazen turned the Sox down - but both Sawadye and Jason McLeod would make sense also.
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Someone is being kind!
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This is the big question that ownership has to answer and adjust its own priors. It's the most reactive ownership in the league. But maybe ownership has learned its lesson there, who knows.
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Mr. Bloody Sock outed it without anybody's permission. Easily the single worst person I have ever rooted for in my 956 years as a sportsball fan.
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Chris Antonetti has been mentioned. He has turned down chances to leave Cleveland before. But if the Red Sox want to rebuild their organizational pitching - you're not going to do better than Cleveland.
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Maybe. But remember that Cora was the choice of multiple front office regimes here. He's just incredibly respected in the industry.
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This attitude has always fascinated me. After 2004 ... which is almost certainly the sweetest title any fan base could have ever won in the sweetest way it could have possibly been won ... the idea of eeyore Red Sox fans who predated that just boggles my mind. I mean, I know they are out there clearly ... but it's still mind boggling.
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i think i had an old baseball card with him from his cubs tour
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I am old enough to remember him as Michael Jordan's manager at Birmingham.
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A sendoff for someone who might be best manager in the history of TWO franchises. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38498193/terry-francona-manager-guardians-red-sox-retire
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there were some injuries and the "returning players" still had to ramp up - and in the case of Story were still bad. And also - get serious. Did you ever see a 3 week stretch where this team was truly humming? There were some good 2-week stretches ... but did this team ever really have the chance to boss a 1/3 of the season? The team was betting on a lot of hope, same as 2022 and 2021. 2021 there was more stable talent offensively - but a TON still had to go right on the pitching side (and did!). Ultimately, Bloom and the front office took very short term, speculative decisions with pitching .. sacrificing floor for bargain-shopping ceiling. You rely on rolling the dice, the spaghetti monster can bite you.
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Oh I don't know. I think Cora is very good. But it is possible I am wrong. But it is hard to look at the Red Sox record over his two tenures and feel like they have not largely maximized the roster.
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He is - although a completely different pitcher - valuable in some of the way that Tim Wakefield was in days of yore ... that he is so durable and reliable (even if the end results are meh) makes him valuable over a 162 game marathon. The way I look at it, Crawford, Sale and Bello are clear rotation starters of some kind. They need at least 1-2 more of say Crawford's quality - but who can put >150 IP without much drama. Cora has had to macgyver so much this season with that pitching staff that you just run out of options, particularly when you don't have live arms coming out your ears organizationally.
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Rafaela is above average now, but elite is entirely within his grasp Story is a plus defensive SS, not what he used to be but a plus player Casas should get better at 1B ... he was terrible this year, but the road to "good enough" at 1B is not a long one I think you'd flip flop verdugo and duran in this lineup - go where you need the range. This team might not be the 2015 Royals defensively - but it should be good enough that we don't think about it.
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I think the knockon effects of just a couple of solid #3 starter types would be pretty good - at least to get them in more of a wildcard race than this season.
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I had it as a B- given what ownership asked him to do .. but a lower grade is fine. Of the Sox GMs over this time, he started with the emptiest hand. But there was no excuse for this team not contending the last two seasons (by any definition of contending) and he has to own that, especially with how obvious the remedy was.
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Yes. It is clearly the best ownership in franchise history. It has also not been perfect and done some dubious baseball things the last decade. And despite some dubious process, the team won a couple of titles anyway. All of those things can exist at once.