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Very simple. I think he had a say, and a hand in Bloom getting fired.
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Cora has more power now, and I think he had something to do with Bloom being gone.
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No, but Cora seems to be the one in power now, and Bloom is out. I don’t think Bloom gave Cora the help he wanted.
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I think it was his inaction at the trade deadline this year, and the results that followed after players coming out, and saying they needed pitching help, and most likely Cora too that was the final straw.
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After the way Dugy tailed off the second half of the year, and having 1 yr left to FA I’m not sure he’ll be in to much of a demand.
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It seems that Cora managed Bloom, and that’s why Bloom got the boot.
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Right now Cora is the baseball guy.
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But what isn’t apples to apples is DD put together 4 winning seasons, and a WS title, where Bloom put together two 78 win teams in his last two years on the job.
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No doubt he improved last year compared to the previous year, but he had nowhere else to go, but up. He had some good flourishes, but he had tailed off big time the month before he got hurt. I would have to see more, before I’d pencil him in, or especially lock him up.
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Night owl.
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He’s high end compared to all the others they got, but he’s still got some improvement to do.
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Not only no, but He’ll no!
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If I was speaking for JH I’d be sayings things like why did I hire Bloom in the first place, and maybe I should just sell the team. Saying I’m not so sure about something I don’t believe is anyway speaking for someone.
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It may turn out better with Cora in charge than it did with Bloom. Bloom still gets paid for another year, so maybe JH is just going to go with an in-house approach for this year, and see how it goes.
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I’m not so sure JH is as enamored with the farm rankings as everyone is on here. DD traded some of the farmers for Sale, and Kimbrel, which were good moves at the time.
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👍👍👍🙈.
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He certainly did with Lester, and Betts. He met Lester out in the parking lot after lowballing him, but that was the old JH. Now a days he just stays tucked away somewhere.
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I don’t think it was all about only winning 84 after aWS title, and winning 100+, but mostly to do with the financials.
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DD got fired, because he had a falling out with JH. How many teams have two losing last place teams, and not only keep their manager, but gives him more power? Did JH offer Cora the GM job when they met, and Cora told him he wasn’t ready? We’ll see how this all works out, but not your normal operations process.
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Like in the Globe today the new GM type will be coming in under some curious conditions. It seems Cora won the power struggle with Bloom, and kudos to him. Cora gets to stay, and help pick out the next in charge. Also O’Hall has already been named the exec VP of baseball ops, so the new person in charge already has their own manager, and staff in place. I don’t know how appealing the Red Sox job is going to be. Sam Kennedy thinks, because it is the Red Sox people will be all lined up for the job, and I don’t think that will be the case at all. It doesn’t seem like a long term job security, and everyone saw that DD got fired after 4 winning season, and a WS title. This is not a normal job opening at all.
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Chapman, and Story would have 300-400 K’s between them.
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It’s not that he’s bad, and he’s an excellent 3B, which would give the L side of the infield some excellent D., but he’s not that good a hitter, and he wouldn’t come all that cheap. Money should go to starting pitching above everything else.
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If you listen to all the people that I hear, and talk to it’s 1201, and counting.
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Burn out? Sooner, or later I don’t know if people are going to keep paying the High ticket prices that are going up again to go on the rollercoaster.
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I don’t think you can look too much into that. Lots of people go to Fenway for the experience of Fenway Park itself, and not so much the product on the field, and it’s been that way for years. 19,000+ showed up in Tampa last night to watch the Rays. The lowest attendance since the 1919 WS.