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I’m not saying I was the only one but I remember taking a lot of flake for even suggesting Nate get offered a QO. I would have preferred him back on a 1 year anyways if he did accept. Would have been a good deal

Sh shh shh shhhhhh 🤫 let him sleep.

I would have been ok with it. There’s more than one way to skin a cat. But, hindsight again is 20/20 Dalbec was looking pretty good at the end of 2021

I’m also not so certain anyone on this site has said defense doesn’t matter. As a matter of fact the people salivating over Schwarber are the ones who don’t value defense enough because he was literally the worse outfielder in all of baseball the past 2 years.

Would still rather have Schwarber than Yoahida at DH. But that means trading JDM in the 2022 offseason. Which seems fine in hindsight

Dude, back In august of 2021 you were leading the charge against the trade. Bloom was dumb, gave us crap, and trades for Injured garbage. It’s almost as if…..:peoples opinions are emotionally charged because they watched a game last night.

For those who think you can live with the bad defense. And this comes on the heels of the worse defense team I’ve seen in a long time. Schwarber is dead last in all of MLB in defensive value and first in defensive runs saved. At -35 since he left Boston. Her be nice on one side of the ball. But to say his home runs make up for the defense, just realize we aren’t talking about bad defense we are talking about the worse. He’s still a valuable player because of the monster bat. But we’ve had 30+ homer in guys here in the past who only hit home runs, strike out, or walk and it feels that the people who magically love Schwarber all of a sudden want that profile. Think of it this way. Schwarber is literally only worth a 1/2 a war more than Yoshida. And it’s not like Yoshida added value on defense, he just lost less. Now this last point is very special so pay attention here. If we had a player here who batted .197 led the league in strikeouts 215 and negative runs saved he would not be popular here. Saying otherwise is just dishonesty.

According to Rob Bradfords latest tweet this appears to be exactly the case, which does make me feel a lot better. Perhaps Henry is finally able to see the Forrest for the trees. Or not.

John Henry also lives in a different world than he did a few decades ago. There’s more money in baseball in other markets. It’s easy to spend big and when when there’s only a few other teams doing it. But the number of big market teams has easily doubled this century. Sox have seen their revenues expand with new media as well. Henry has to realize whoever he hires, can only be so successful if he doesn’t open back up the spigot. Don’t try to compete with Steve Cohen, but be time every three years you can be outspending everyone else. Boston is supposed to be a big market. Henry is forgiven if he starts acting like it again.

He’s more David Ortiz than David Ortiz in these ALCS

I’ve been the biggest advocate to move Yoshida to DH on this board. But he was much better out there than Schwarber was

.957 OPS in Boston. Vs career .831 Bloom got him at his absolute best. Legendary

At DH, sure. In LF? I might prefer Yoshida.

Absolutely.

Whether or not it’s true Henry has “lost interest” is irrelevant. Because it’s not a zero sum game, he can be a hands off owner and just flash the money and the team would be fine. Now that very well may be the case with Henry, and if it’s, it’s not because he bought other businesses it’s because he kind of sucks as a person. I’m starting to think Henry really sucks as a person.

Oh, I’ve been out of the news loop for 24 hours. That is something. When an interview for a job takes place it’s not just about a company seeing if a candidate is the right fit. At times the candidate is also feeling out the potential employer. Henry should know this. The only thing that makes this not outrageous to me is if they plan on doing a second round of interviews about guys they’re serious about. He has to be there for that. If not, Henry should make a public statement that he is an owner in principal and financial stake alone. The decision making process is 100% in Kennedy hands. I haven’t heard that.

A single candidate? They’ve interviewed about 11 so far. That we know of.

Yup, we’ve been here before. I just find it amazing how awful he was in the regular season, mitigated by home runs yet he’s been legendary in this post season. David Ortiz esq. DD is now one game closer to the World Series than Bloom ever got since his departure

It’s pretty amazing what Kyle is doing in these playoffs. But I wonder how people would feel if he was here for all 162 games. .197 ba, 215 strikes outs, one of the worse defensive seasons in the outfield I’ve seen. He’d be a nice DH

Well it was the prediction thread but the guys has to go ruin it!!! I suppose a discussion thread about the position and not the players on the team is pretty cool too. I like Romero, and think he gets one of the promotions. I think they augment him with someone from outside the organization.

A lot of these leaks could be the Sox getting a feel for people. A decision could be made within a week. They’ve already interviewed close to a dozen people, and that’s who we know about.

The more I think about it, the more they should hire from within. There’s a lot of guys deserving who if not giving this chance will likely end up elsewhere over the next few years. At least one of the two positions should be filled within. And it might just so happen that person could be among some of the best for the position.

The new titles is a fancy way to retain talent. Because you will lose guys in this industry. Take Eddie Romero for example, he’s a rising star in the industry. He probably has his eyes set on the job here and if he doesn’t take it, he’s probably leading another ball club in 1-5 years from now.

I think that kind of limits your pool though, which is likely why the Red Sox are getting rejected so much. There’s only 30 of these jobs and half these guys are below average. How many of the other half are happy were they’re at. Rejection seems natural, especially when you cast a wide net, which many are missing, the Sox are doing exactly what they said they would hear. How much is the reputation of firing past GMs hurting the Sox? I don’t think anyone answering that really knows. But they should cast a wide net, and they should consider guys who have been groomed for the job but are blocked elsewhere. You probably get more yes from that pool. Some guys were born for the job and have immediate success. You have to hire the right guy, and not limit yourself to such a small pool of candidates. You’re also only as good as the tools you have at your disposal. Ownership will likely have to r sure that they’re willing spend resources to make the team good again to attract top talent.

Staying single after my marriage ended was the greatest thing I ever did. Of course, technically I was the one who was fired so….