WestEddy

I think Getz is a guy who learns his lesson with certain players and stays "moved on". That said, Kopech has to be in the tier of closers behind Fairbanks that might be had in the single digits. Never say never, right?

And there's a Grand Canyon between speaking positively about your position and the reality? By all means, post this declaration of independence you keep citing and let's look at it in context. I can't imagine that KW/Hahn kept begging Getz to build out pitching and hitting labs, upgrade all facets of development, and Getz flat out refused AND kept his job. Then it's weird that once he became GM, he swept through development and did all these things. Either Getz is an intense Machiavellian dude who sabotaged his bosses, or he was a team player who tried to work within his limited resources.

...because every front office employee doing a job will go to the media and trash their bosses? Do you ever even try to make sense?

As usual, I have no idea what this means, or how it relates to what you're responding to.

Everybody has always gone silent when I've posed the question. In interviews, do they tell the prospective boss that they've worked for a moron, so they're fated to make the same bad decisions the bad boss did?

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

3/45 with a player option after year one.

Yeah, I think there's a sweet spot for Meidroth, Sosa and Baldwin to all get 400 PAs, with Meidroth at 2B, and maybe Sosa in LF/DH/2B

MLBTR has a whole article on what the Murakami market looks like. The Best Fits For Munetaka Murakami - MLB Trade Rumors

No, Okamoto's is in January. I think a window begins when they file.

And the true solution might just be trading with the Royals or Guardians. Robert won't be a fixture in either place. He either gets bought out at the end of 26 or 27. Then he hits the market and takes top dollar available.

The entire nature of sports today is about making money. There are no entities who will invest $2B in a team, then lose money because they value winning over profits. And even if they do "value winning over profits", that's not going to go on for long before their business is in serious trouble.

As we know, the Mets are looking for starting pitching and maybe an outfielder. Mets have work to do: Here’s how they’ll approach the rest of the offseason - The Athletic

Maybe. And maybe the tier that Getz is targeting is waiting for more valuable players to be taken off the board first, or for the teams closer to competing to decline them.

What, does this mean that the league now has its hand out for vendors to get approval?

It wasn't accidental. We all can joke.

No s%*#. At the time. my thought was that the dude was hitting a ton, every influencer was screaming for him to be called up, I believe that blogs and sports radio even talked about him. I thought the Sox, if they were going to bring him up, do it on the next homestand, maybe sell some tickets. I really didn't believe they'd run out of SRO tix, too. Yeah, maybe if the Sox challenge .500 in 2026, and 2027 comes off without a hitch, Hagen Smith, or Roch draws interest when they're called up.

This makes no sense. The joke is that I thought announcing the promotion of Elko would cause excitement for people to take in a game because he was the flavor of the week for every Twitter account and podcaster (which he was).

Many of us here would love for you to lead by example.