JoeC

That’s the sense I get as well. Seems like the team and core were too young for TLR, and a year of Ricky would have been a better choice. TLR would have been fine IMO with an established veteran roster who could take care of themselves and their own work habits, but the 2021 team still needed to understand what it took to be established, successful, and consistent big leaguers.

This team is slated for a big turnaround. They HAVE to be better in 2025. Like, it would be such a Sox move to pick #10 in 2025 based on a historically awful 2024, then somehow avoid a high pick again in 2026 while still being a horrible team.

That is career suicide.

If you take away the (arguably) greatest player in the history of the sport that he happened to acquire when he bought the team, and he’s got 1 championship in 82 combined years of ownership.

This part of your post was the Getzyball strategy.

This is why JR won’t entertain this.

The difference is that Baltimore still had a clue of what it takes to compete in today's game, even with terrible ownership. JR insists on "his" way.

I at least have some modicum of hope for the pitching side of the coaching equation.

I wish I could dissent.

Yes - thank you for putting it much more elegantly than I did / could

That’s cute you think they could be thinking of us

Yep - so the drop-outs from injury would more frequently happen in the minors, I would think

Plus, I wonder if they just got hurt and fell off the radar before hitting the big leagues back then, due to the way they just ran pitchers into the ground even in the minors? So basically the big leagues were largely full of guys who had already been filtered out as being able to handle 250+ innings a year?

Putting aside the year-over-year jumps in innings, pretty good example of survival bias, I see. What abiut guys like Bird Fidrych? Jason Bere? Darren Dreifort? There are dozens of other names that people don't remember or recall because their arms fell off after a year or two of abuse, and their careers were cut short. I'll even throw Koufax on that list, as his arm basically fell off at age 30. Anyone can list up Hall of Fame pitchers with long careers and say "well they did it, so why can't Crochet?" They conveniently forget about the ones who didn't "make it." This may come as a surprise, but there are more who don't survive the way you're suggesting the team treat Crochet. This organization is doing a lot of things horrendously, but attempting to limit Crochet's workload is at least logical.

I'm telling you. It can be a reality show / documentary / mockumentary. The Front Office, focused around low-level ticket sales office workers, with an occasional glimpse into the actual on-field product like 30 Rock.

I'll just let Don Cherry take this one in a very non-PC throwback: https://youtu.be/kjXyvc1S-ZE?si=JFE57UTod0OFQrCz&t=10 (Trying to get it to embed for me, but maybe not possible in mobile Chrome for some reason)

They're also still a team 20 games ahead of the Sox.

But we CAN have "When I'm Sixty-Four"

Can't wait until these songs stop having a statutory vibe to them.

An injury sustained while signing the longest contract extension in team history

What types of staffers do the Sox usually send to those clinics? What a disgrace.

Getting out of anything more than a prorated minimum salary of that contract is a W.

Seriously - just apply that energy to a low-level marketing intern who is told to cold call you to hit you up for season tickets. Then turn the intern's side of that cold call into a scene in The Front Office.

By drowning him in a Scrooge McDuck style swimming pool of profits?

Seriously - can you imagine a The Office style series of talking heads?