JoeC

I guess it's more of an "I lump the training staff as an extension of the coaching staff's resources." If players are hurt, the medical staff / training staff need to notify the rest of the coaches so that they can make appropriate decisions. Tomato / tomato. I basically agree 100% with your post.

His decision to pinch hit Homer for Darryl Strawberry is always what came to mind when Tony would overplay lefty-righty matchups.

That too, though I'd generally lump that in with the "eye test."

Sox are notorious for turning low bars into games of limbo.

Wrong answers only please. Also, please list the entertainment benefits your candidate would provide.

That’s what I was hoping. says a lot about a guy (or the manager) when a veteran OFer can’t play RF for a “contender,” so they trot out Sheets and Vaughn in his place.

Moving Pollock to whose natural position in RF?

Also depends on his relationship with the leadership core and the rest of the coaches. Just make people “hate you less” enough to get buy-in on your direction. Could work well enough for a season or two while we are in “the window.” Would end in disaster eventually, so there’s always that intrigue.

I was hoping it was more of "they would use Tony's day to sneak others under the radar"

I'll go a step further. We need a guy who'll look at a player (eye test), look at the analytics (numbers test), and work with coaches to figure out what's going on with the guy's swing, mechanics, approach, scouting reports, etc., then work to fix the guy.

AJ's always been that kid on the playground who gets into fights but never actually throws the punch. And when the teacher asks the kid who threw the punch why he did it, the explanation would inevitably come out sounding dumb like "he laughed at me!" My money is on Pierzynski being punched, probably by someone like Pollock.

...and once they find this person, HIRE this person. It shouldn't need to be said, but it needs to be said with this org.

Which post made no sense? Perhaps I can clarify for you.

That will fix one league’s worth of players and not the other…?

By your same logic though, we should also avoid AL guys.

His huge claim to fame in my eyes was the resurgences of Gio and Rodon. Not sure how much he helped in other ways

I would think that an injury like this is, for a pitcher, pitching while hurt vs. pitching while injured. Playing while hurt = painful, but can be overcome. See: Abreu, Jose. Playing while injured: see: Robert, Luis. Probably one of those "if you can play through it it won't get too much worse - just will be more painful" situations... and then you get the surgery as soon as you're sure your season is done anyways.

I’d hopefully have been disappointed at the time of the managerial hiring, before it ever came to that.

Again, I see that post and see it as a Sox issue, not an AL-NL issue It’s like getting horrible diarrhea from eating spoiled food and blaming the horrible experience on the toilet.

It works for a reserve player, sure. But for $5.5M a year? Nope. And to pay that player every f'ing day when it's clear to literally everyone (including the player) that he isn't producing? Nope. Leury circa 2021 is / was a valuable piece on a winning ballclub as a role player. Leury circa 2021 is / was never going to be an everyday player on a team with playoffs in its future. Leury circa 2022 has a .500 OPS... which is 98 points lower than Zack Greinke's career. My issues with Leury are: 1) he played too damn much 2) he is overpaid, given what his role should be

I don't care who stays or goes, as long as it is 100% the new manager's decision.

Grindiness is an immutable quality. No such thing as "over-the-hill." He came directly from the NL though, but that's another good poiint. At what point does an AL player become an NL player?

Also, at what point does a player cease to become an NL player and become an AL player? If the player is laundered through an intermediary AL team, does that make him an AL player? If so, how long must the player be on that team?

Clearly there's no way to know for sure. Better stick to signing aging past-their-prime AL players just to be sure.

I hope it’s something other than “practice swinging a bat one-handed.”