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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.
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Are they better options than Duvall?
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Yea it must of been your trade deadline grade that clinched for JH. I haven’t heard it anywhere else that Cora played a big part in getting Bloom fired, and yes by me saying it doesn’t make it true. We know Cora had a meeting with John Henry, and Tom Werner, and Cora told them he wasn’t ready to be GM. Did they offer him the job? Possibly, or possibly not. We know Cora is going to be the manager next year, and we know Cora is going to have a hand in picking the next GM. Now I don’t know what that means to you, but to me I’d it sounds like Cora is JH right hand man, and it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibilities that Cora had something to do with getting Bloom fired. To me that’s more plausible than have a twisted mind, and idea by saying it.
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The hilarious part is you’re worried more about me celebrating that Bloom got fired than you are Cora, and I still say Cora had a big hand in getting him fired. Thee cheers for Alex. Hip Hip Horay, Hip Hip Horay, Hip Hip Horay!👍👍👍
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I know it’s hard to believe that there is someone out there who wanted Bloom gone more than me, but I think theirs is, and that is Cora. I’m thinking since Cora is JH right hand man now that he also had something to do with Bloom getting the boot. If he did I would definitely make an exception, and wave the Pom Poms on that one.