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It's a large budget. Now I am not sure that GMs will so obviously see it. "Okay, to the guy asked me to cash in our farm assets for the major league club. The boss greenlighted all these extensions and then sacked me when the talk show callers got mad at the team." This is a desirable job - but it's pretty great that the Steinbrenners are demonstrably better bosses.
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I don't think anyone will be scared per se - there are only 30 of these gigs. But ownership cannot credibly assure a GM he will get 4 or 5 years with full confidence.
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Given Henry's comments about the luxury tax, and clashes with Dombrowski about the future ... I expect both to be gone. I would not be surprised if Dombrowski did not actually want to be on hand when Betts is on the Dodgers next year. The Red Sox will find someone fine - I don't think EVERYONE will be scared away. But ownership has shown little appetite for standing behind their hires when things aren't amazing.
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What is interesting is that Dombrowski really did in his drafting reflect a bit of a sea change from the predecessors who often chose the relative safety of position players. But Dombrowski actually drafted pitchers. Of course Groome gets hurt right away - and that shows the risk in the approach. But acquiring pitching talent has decidedly been an organizational blind spot.
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The Yankees organizationally have had a lot of luck getting more mileage out of those AAAA/utlility guy sorts than any team in the league, and it has been pretty consistent.
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There was a lot fluky in the starting pitcher performance - it is weird to see only Rodriguez do better, and everybody else go markedly worse. Overall a disappointing year - easy to overreact to, with ample evidence being demonstrated by the principals.
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I think this is a fairer take - if there were issues on that end, and ownership was not let in on it, that is a different issue. Listen, the Red Sox will land someone good - this is a prestigious gig, and Sam Kennedy has a better reputation than Lucchino as far as being easy to work with. But whichever of your Hoyers, McLeods, Swadiye's or anyone else gets hired, there has to be some commitment to giving him time. Especially if the guy is going to be, um, encouraged, to deal Betts.
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Considering the injury trouble in the rotation, this team is still going to win 85 games. There is nothing in this claim that really justifies Henry's whiplash. He's basically running the team like a WEEI caller. Remember, this "cliff" year includes three players who will get MVP votes and another who will appear on at least a couple of Cy Young ballots. There are some reasonable regression arguments for being in the mix next year. 118 wins was not a realistic assessment of the roster, but then neither is 85. Again, it's weird to see an owner who acts so dispassionately in his actual business (And in Liverpool FC if you follow them) behave so rashly the way he has with this team over the decade.
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I am fairly optimistic. Strikeouts were still there, WHIP was good. He struggled with men on base, which seems fluky. Ultimately - and this is a little cliche - his mistakes were hit very hard. He seemed to be one of the prime victims of the juiced ball, not getting the movement on the slider at times.
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I am inclined to blame ownership about as much as DD for it - there was no reason to do it before the season. Henry is not in the dark here. I look at it this way. If ownership prioritized the farm, then they would have hired somebody else besides Dombrowski to run the operation. But Henry was itchy to win again, so this is what happened. This is the sort of instability folks teased Steinbrenner about in the 80s. Now, there are a lot of Red Sox alums out there GM-wise who know the landscape which will help.
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This team has 3 players who are going to get MVP votes this year and one who will get a couple of Cy ones and somehow won't get 90 wins. It was all about the starting pitching collapsing.
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I think a lot of the staff thought Swihart had the most raw talent of their catchers and it was worth looking into it. It didn't work out - though the FO did steer out of it fairly quickly.
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The Sale extension doesn't happen without ownership greenlighting it.
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Or he was scapegoated by an ownership that has shown a history of being very reactionary. Dombrowski's MO was well known. Henry brought him in to fix the major league club.
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It is probably simplistic. While it could explain the slow start, it does not explain why it never got better (except for a light stretch). What could be argued is that the slow start meant the bullpen got burned out very quickly.
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Dombrowski did exactly what his boss wanted him to do. And so the team will have its 4th GM in 7 years while the Yankees GM has somehow lasted 22 years. Those two titles are awesome though.
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Or (more likely) their parents or grandparents were.
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Levangie will probably take the fall - though a decision like that is made at a much higher level. It's too big a change to have been delegated down. So you get a year where the Red Sox have 3 position players who will get MVP votes (remember the MVP ballot is 10 names long) and never get close to a playoff spot.
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A hitter in a ... SLUMP? Oh noes!
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CRACIN: a keeper? 15 game winner for Milwaukee
sk7326 replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Chacin is absolutely worth bringing him back. There is no reason he won't be a perfectly adequate mid-rotation type of guy. -
Speier is a very smart guy. Frankly (obviously I am just a guy on the internet), I think trading Betts is like a >50% possibility, and this will be one of the goals of said trade.
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Most teams don't keep that sustained level ad infinitum. The kids have to ... you know, perform. The Top 100 is not some immutable cast in stone list.
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The Red Sox did a pretty good job replenishing the system after all of those trades - but the quality is at the lower levels. It's hard to maintain both at the same time - and the Sox are not exempt from that. Of course the big leaps in the system were in single A with Jimenez and Duran in AA.
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I suspect he will have intense scrutiny because this is Boston and that comes with the uniform. It's been a relatively tough year - we'll see what happens.
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Decisions like that are done at the organizational level. So Dombrowski has to get some credit for that move - possibly a majority of it.