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Here's a 37 minute interview with Grifol. 17 minute mark he gets into how he would approach being a manager, leadership, and who he takes from etc etc. https://omny.fm/shows/kc-bobcast/kc-bobcast-pedro-grifol?t=17m

Also note there's a good chance Grifol would be the Tigers manager right now if not for La Russa. He was a finalist for the job then the Sox passed on Hinch and the Tigers got him.

Listened to a couple interviews with him and he says he full on embraces the analytic movement. Hard to say for sure though. One thing is he does come off like a bit of a nerd, an avid reader etc, so my guess is his personality does push himself into it.

Really love his background over the other candidates. He was my #1 whole time so I'm happy but I wasn't really all that impressed with the field.

Not when he came up through his first 5 or so years (when Grifol was actually the catching coach). He's not a good framer but was elite in pretty much all other aspects.

https://royalsreporter.com/2020/10/30/pedro-grifol-may-still-be-on-staff-next-year-and-why-thats-good-for-the-royals-but-bad-for-baseball/ Good article from 2020 from the Royals side on how the White Sox made a mistake in hiring La Russa over Grifol.

That'd be great. The Latin American players love him. Could do worse than Salvador Perez' catching coach. The only concern I'd have with him is he's a perennial candidate that never gets the job, but you can say that about a pretty much all the non-retreads (Alomar, Espada, etc). The interview I listened to him, he may be a bit of a nerd, but the players seem to like him so good enough for me.

You'd have to go in the opposite direction. Name Ozzie the manager with a bench coach in charge of decision making. Ozzie as figurehead gets to do what he does best with motivating and taking the heat off players. See what he can do with Moncada etc. Still could lead to a frosty relationship.

He's not my favorite for it but I do think he has the highest ceiling. Also the lowest floor. Lot of variance there so I'd slightly prefer to not take the risk, but if anyone could get more out of Moncada and Robert, I do believe it's him and that would trump anything else if he does do that.

Why would Mark not be expected to DH there

Imagine wanting to bat Frank Thomas 5th

Why is he still here?

Or it feels like he's honoring the anniversary of the world series win

McCauley has an advantage because I believe they're the only all girls school around. They're number 1 in volleyball for example, which would be the biggest girls sport. They don't have incentive to merge with Rice but I'm sure Rice would love too.

Marist is about to dwarf everyone with the money they're putting everywhere. I hope Rice isn't in trouble.

? Why would that be? Also companies can't own MLB teams unless there's special circumstances like Nintendo/Mariners and Turner/Braves. Don't know if sox would get approval. Edit: maybe that was more something Selig pushed against more than anything. But that makes me think it'd be more unlikely for Reinsdorf to do.

No he doesn't. Although I'd take the field over Espada at this point.

That's true and if that's fine for you, that's fine too. Bunch of people in this thread trying to rewrite history though and act like the Astros cheating scandal stopped at the World Series or that their own bench coach past that didn't know about it.

I mean yeah, he did, but okay

Okay

If the Astros let him interview, as any decent club would, it's not tampering

They were cheating in 2018. He was very much part of that team. You're right to say he wasn't part of the 2017 cheaters though.

Yeah, I'd prefer nothing from the Astros. Give me someone else.

My guy Grifol.

Possibly, like us, they're close enough to know and not want the potential circus that can comes with him, no matter how he interviews.