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Tobias Myers could still be pretty good but yeah, that is a pretty impressive assessment of offensive talent. Hopefully, Rodriguez was the dude who identified Caminero as a target.

If the Ishbias commit to privately financing a baseball stadium there, I sure hope so.

They don't have to agree to anything. The Bears will whine, make empty threats, then they'll build their stadium and pay their tax bill. They're not leaving Chicago for Hammand or Gary. If they leave it's just a matter of time some billionaire with enough ambition and ego builds a competing suburban stadium development (see Ishiba) and completely guts the a NWI stadium monopoly on holding premium events in Chicago. It also opens up the Bears to potentially encouraging Chicago (or even a different suburban development) from making a play for a different NFL franchise. If you build on the Chicago River developers will line up, if you build in AH developers will line up. Building in NWI is like building in Waukegan, you can, but you shouldn't and you won't. If your gonna make a threat like this you threaten to move a across the country, there's no way Kevin Warren could with a straight face on camera make a legitimate claim they're considering Gary Indiana.

You don't think they'd find a buyer for 300 acres of prime, undeveloped real estate close to 2 major expressways and a Metra stop? Did they overpay for the land? Serious question, I'm not being facetious. What does that kind of parcel right in the heart of a thriving area go for?

https://www.draysbay.com/2021/11/21/22793071/the-rays-newest-prospect-junior-caminero On the other hand, the quietest great trade in MLB history... Tobias Myers (later started for Milwaukee in 2024-25 after CLE minors and Charlotte AAA flops) for budding young 3B Junior Caminero. Myers was a 40 man roster crunch victim in Tampa.

Here’s a thought — perhaps Getz would be better served in an EVP role like Kenny toward his end, with Rodriguez actually being the GM. Getz has shown that he is better at the operations side of a baseball front office moreso than the scouting and choosing of talent himself. I’d be down with that…

nevermind. wander has nothing to do with anything here is the point.

I really like this hire, nice job Getz.

Eh, so he was supposed to know that Wander Franco was a pedo? That’s a stretch, unless he was able to do forensics on Wander’s PC/laptop/phone while he was scouting him.

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Here's the HUGE elephant in the room that was excised from his official bios. Both a plus on the scouting board, but a huge minus on the character/maturity/background side of things, quite obviously. It turned the fate of the entire Rays' organization around, and led dealing most of their core veterans away the last 2-3 seasons. "Wander Franco, who hails from Bani, Dominican Republic, was scouted and signed by the Rays' director of international scouting Carlos Rodriguez and Dominican Republic scouting supervisor Danny Santana."

Dudes be updating their resumes. No sure thing with the Sox anymore!

Seems like with the Bears situation easy PR move to try and stay and develop in the city.

Royals personnel seeing this news wrt to their career prospects:

Yes he was already a finalist for the Cubs' job that Carter Hawkins eventually got four years ago...that will be repeated numerous times, surely.

This is a home run fucking hire. I’m actually shocked the Rays did not promote him to GM after Bendix left, but their loss is our gain. And candidly speaking, our front office size was still light compared to others prior to this addition. Glad that Getz didn’t rush to add muscle and instead waited for the right guy to come along.

Two months is really nothing. If the timing was right, this dude probably could have gotten a GM role.

By the way, he left his job with the Rays at the conclusion of this past season. So he'd been looking for a new opportunity for about two months or so now. https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2025/10/23/hamilton-marx-assistant-gm-carlos-rodriguez-samantha-bireley/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiHzaWPpsaRAxV6kyYFHUDSCgUQFnoECAgQAg&usg=AOvVaw2jEksjpHzU6onK6o0QlgVy "Bokhari and Banner should be mentioned in future GM searches, especially if the Cubs rebuild faster than anticipated. Hoyer’s GM search also included two finalists who are on similar trajectories: Rays VP of player development and international scouting Carlos Rodriguez, a native of Puerto Rico; and Cleveland VP of player development James Harris, a Black man who previously held high-level jobs in football, serving as Chip Kelly’s chief of staff at the University of Oregon and with the Philadelphia Eagles." Long long article about the Cubs' attempts to diversity their front office. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2975520/2021/11/24/as-major-league-baseball-talks-about-diversity-the-cubs-have-to-put-words-into-more-action/

From 2015-19, Rodriguez served as director of international scouting after three years as director of Latin American scouting (2012-14). During this time, he expanded the Rays’ global scouting presence and refined their international evaluation and acquisition processes. He played a key role in scouting and signing notable players such as José Alvarado, Jonathan Aranda, Vidal Bruján, Genesis Cabrera, Diego Castillo, Yonny Chirinos, Ronaldo Hernández, René Pinto, Cristopher Sánchez and Jesús Sánchez. Rodriguez joined the Rays in 2010 as a professional and international scout after four seasons as an area scout with the Blue Jays. In 2009, he signed Yan Gomes, who became the first Brazilian-born player to reach the major leagues. A native of Puerto Rico, Rodriguez attended the University of North Florida, where he played and later served as an assistant coach. He graduated in 2004 with a double major in international business and economics. He and his wife, Omayra, reside in Tampa with their daughter, Eva Marie. mlb.com

This is awesome.

I literally posted that this guy is a better hire for GM than our current GM. 🤣

Why don't you look into it and get back to us?

Once again, I don’t work for the Sox. I get evaluated for my own job, decisions, and results. Barfield works for the Sox and he chose poorly. What else has he done for the Sox on the position player side?

You think Barfield should be canned because of one bad trade that you were a massive fan of when it first went down?

I'm guessing a lot of people in power and voters are asking the same thing.