JoeC

Yeah - wouldn't it suck to have a team incapable of keeping its cornerstone position players healthy and contributing? I can't possibly imagine what that would be like. It must be disappointing.

I worry that someone will take away the wrong lessons from the Brewers:

This is a great post, and it actually does give me hope that Getz's personnel decisions have merit. The cynical side of me thinks that this, coupled with Crochet's comments about his experience in arriving to the Red Sox, paint a picture of the Sox as a high-end minor league team that develops guys until they're ready to get the full big league experience in a place like Boston.

So Crochet could have walked off the mound at Rate Field on the losing end of a 1-0 game like he never left Chicago?

I don’t interpret that as any sort of endorsement of his abilities.

There are two ways for this ship to turn around: 1) JR dies 2) JR is publicly shamed into changing by having former players continue to speak out. I would rather not have to rely on death as a beacon of hope, just as far as my personal morality is concerned.

You forgot develop better.

It would maybe keep him from trying to be over-involved, which would be a good thing.

I like Getz's moves from an off-the-field personnel standpoint. The player acquisitions and on-field personnel decisions are, on the whole, bad. As long as JR is the owner, I'm starting to think that the only move that a GM could make that would show he's competent is to resign. Any hire made by JR is likely, by definition, unqualified - if a JR-hired GM really understands what's going on, they'd realize they need to resign.

Can JR use Tampa as a bargaining chip again?

I thought the idea was to be located in a convenient place.

Again, how can we expect the media face of the franchise to know this stuff?

Is it unreasonable for fans to expect that the literal media face of the franchise to understand how media can take quotes out of context?

Clearly, Schriff knows more than Yu Darvish:

What a difference a couple of years can make

Crazy.

What would a "Soxtalk cult hero" Mount Rushmore look like, besides Cody Asche?

Is this what a new banner smells like?

How does winning a world series ring not count as the last laugh...?

Kopech "maybe?" World series ring not enough? I'm confused

Actually, I found flaw in your logic here. You're pointing to a decision the Sox made as positive evidence for your argument.

One of the lone bright spots.

Did they keep whoever was running their social media accounts at the end of last year?

55 save opportunities. Likely by far the fewest in MLB.

That's gotta be worth like $25 today, no?