JoeC

...or candy!

Get out of here with that advanced stat shenanigan.

Not wasting a year is paying off already.

“Money will be spent.”

aka the mythical “South Detroit.”

Speaking as someone who lives in the Detroit area, I can say that this is factually incorrect

I'm sure they've got TV people for that, like Schriffen.

Pretty sure the actual problem is that the CHSN folks are too lazy and stupid to realize that not everyone wants to do OTA, whether they're too lazy, too stupid, or whatever other reason. It's not like this is new information.

Sounds like a Leon Phelps sidekick. Or some frat bro who just graduated from drinking Herb Ertlinger's Fruit Wine.

Yes, the season has officially started.

I should just copy and paste this for the year for everyone.

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: