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Well - Iowas offense still sucks.

This was how I always thought it worked.

They stunk too - thanks for that added nugget. I always assumed they spent time doing both and some specialized in minors and others handled more of the advanced scouting and other big league scouting .

It was their analytics department that was really small. Like really small…not the scouting department. Don’t know if that is big or small but Sox analytics is one that is a few while their marketing department is massive…Sox got it all backwards…have good scouts and analytics and development people and you don’t need a marketing team…your product sells itself!

Their pro scouts were clearly AWFUL. Hate anyone losing their job but they need to clean house here.

Thoughts and prayers with Chet and his family

And the tenth pick in the draft. Sickening.

Until Taylor got hurt - the Taylor pick was looking great. Hopefully he bounces back and ends up being a dude.

In fairness - this was number 3 within this scouts region - not necessarily number 3 on the big board.

The only thing I can think of - and I should caveat that I don't think this is the right way to do it, but I could see in the world of Jerry this making sense...was him looking at it as - if I have someone in house who knows what is wrong and I'm aligned with in that thinking, I'll let him start to make the necessary changes in time and begin making wholesale changes. If I were to bring in an outsdier - before I let him just start with, its all broken, I would essentially force him to watch for 1-2 years to really assess it vs. just throwing everyone else out with that assumption. Hence - in JR's mind - him hiring Getz accelerated his own personal comfort in making more radical wholesale changes than if he brought in a big time front office hire (since by nature he just hand the entire keys of the kingdom over to anyone). Again - I'm not saying its right and there is plenty Getz has done wrong / less good this year. I don't think he has set the franchise back this season (in the sense of any horrific deals and/or just totally stupid lets go buy some talent to get ourselves away) and it seems like what he has planned at least on paper makes sense. Whether he is capable of actually leading it through and getting the right people etc - there is enough that has went wrong thus far this year to materially question it - but he is getting at least 3 years to get the arrow pointed back (especially knowing JR). Only thing accelerating that would be a change in ownership in my opinion (and / or something non baseball related).

Wasn’t it like 2003 or 2004, where Sox won like zero game from their 5th starter - barely missed playoffs despite that.

If you clear your cache it should stop. Ultimately it seems because we all visit site so much it takes a bit longer for the memories to clear out. It should get better everyday.

Thanks - once I read more makes sense. Presume this helps cover de in obvious pass downs and allows Walker to kick inside

This seems like an odd one - I liked our depth at LB a lot. I presume this is a really good ST player or something?

And we are done

Final steps are today - will be another outage. About 2-4 hours.

Both of you hit the nail on the head. My hope is the current trainwreck forces a different view and a willingness to adept but I'm not optimistic on that path.

Interesting - I will notate that and will target a solve of that when we run the final steps on Thursday. I say final steps - Thursday is still a bit lift as we will be shifting to latest PHP version and latest forum software. May not sound big as the forum software is not a quantum leap forward (as the next evolution isn't set for another year) - but behind the scenes there should be a lot more efficiency / run-time improvements.

Martin vs. Ray

Good defense and game is in extra innings. Little things matter and the Sox are still sucky at defense (and hitting and out of the pen).

It won’t show up in box score - but a better first basemen and it would be 2-1 instead of 4-1.

A good first basemen makes that play Vaughn didnt.

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