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I have my eyes on Chubb.

There was an athletic article in osney(?) or whomever the Astros manager was that had Ozzie jr or whatever the other brother was yelling at everyone in the comments lol. They are the most online of baseball families.

Even *I* heard things, he was telling all his friends who include quite a few former players in the area.

Jeter made Arod move to 3rd. Listen roids aside it certainly is a sliding doors moment that probably leads to a WS for the sox or leads to the same situation where the strike ruins it BUT These examples are silly to me or frank seems right. Here's a fun anecdote from me interviewing lance johnson when I was 8: "Me: Why don't you learn how to fucking hit so you can provide better protection to the rest of the lineup instead of blaming the best player on the team for not giving up at bats? Johnson: Wow"

I, personally, would have explored Adrian Beltre.

Frank was right though.

Kevin long would be such a good hire. My god, I will take the over on every single Eloy prop next year obviously he'd get injured on day 1 if I do that but point stands.

I agree, but I also think Thome would be a really good manager. I just think people keep hoping sox will feel a wakeup call to act differently and hope the manager search will be that.

Sadly I think this is not necessarily a reflection of the fans being overzealous as much as not trusting the F.O. at all and hoping they go based off of resume/best org. The best-run franchises of late have been hiring former players/internal managers. I don't think any Sox fan trusts the sox to know the good interpersonal skills people for that. So instead, you'd point to: Melvin (no brainer), Kevin Cash (bullpen coach for Francona), Cora (WS bench coach though obviously a down year). I think even in recent history, the first Ozzie hire was very popular. Sox fans from my memory were obsessed with that Marlins team (not surprising, it slayed the Yankees and Cubs) and he was their 3b coach and popular former player. Manuel didn't work out, but I don't think anyone has a problem with trying out a 3b coach from the mid 90s expos and then Leyland's WS Marlins. So I guess when our off-resume signings fail, I think fans want to go back to the IBM of coaching candidates. You would think Hahn/JR/KW would also feel that way, but JR at this point prioritizes conformity and congeniality to winning.

I think you buy the trenches, and am a bit more confident now that Mike Evan’s will be available this offseason.

I don't think so, I was surprised too but because of his salary and basically everyone planning for regression I think bears would have taken a 3rd for quinn instead of trading Mack for a 2.

I love paul konerko but like, the way he approached 2014 (from stories I've heard) wasn't exactly Yadi/Pujols-like exit. I say this as someone who was creeped out by the church of Yadi, but I think you'd be crazy not to see if he'd want to jump into managing soon.

I still am a little annoyed treating Willie Harris in the same vein as "well they are already here" guys like Getz/Thome/Ozzie to an extent. He has a pretty classic trajectory right now. He's done it in multiple orgs, Starting in sox but then going to Giants, Reds and then Cubs as the 3rd base coach. Some of those aren't winning orgs but ...it's the bench coaches. By all accounts he still brings a lot of energy and is well-liked. You could do a lot worse. I'll say again, you can't retrofit a smarter organization on top of the sox just by hiring someone from the astros. Of the duties a manager is responsible for, Harris seems like a competent choice.

Also loved when him and Soto(?) showed up in LA to cheer on Max Scherzer last year.

I’m pro Kevin long but pretty sure he is not a pro analytics guy so prepare yourselves for that. He is a phenomenal hitting coach, however.

because teams have been blitzing the edge to force him in the pocket, so if you bring in help, you are rolling out with only one or so options.

Yeah, especially the scouting director/player dev seminars. Very fun for nerds like me.

So much for my “belicheck will figure it out” heuristic. Very happy that Bears look like this after a bye. Excellent job by the bears staff. Major major growth tonight.

The stadium is burning down and we’re like “should they grab the bucket or the garden hose? No, no they wont grab the gasoline can right?”

Not a lot of competition for Thome or Getz right now and you know how JR feels about competing against himself.

Every NPL developed pitcher screams arm issues.

I mean also that is just a sweet job, and when the Cardinals have moved on it's hard to point to where they've been wrong. Matheny was fired, he gets gobbled up by the Royals and ...yeah he was terrible. They were right. Schildt comes in, has the same success everyone has in STL, but they relied on the wild card last year. This year they slayed the central and didn't need to win a miracle number of games straight to do it. Hard to say they were wrong. It's not impressive to win in STL.

This is where I agree. We all know the sox aren't going to hire the best guy for the job. But at least getz will remove some of Hahn's obfuscation on whether the team would be performing better if it followed more of his offices edicts. That's helpful! I think hahn is absolute trash as a GM, but many are convinced TLR caused many of the teams faults last year and was at odds with Hahn. Well, Getz would remove that obstacle and align more of the player dev instructs to the major league level, and has a better rapport with Hahn. If they succeed, Hahn can say I told you so. If they fail, there is one less mirror he can use. I guess what I'm saying is we're already dying and this may get us to peace faster.

At least my long shot of tampa falling off a cliff and them deciding to blow it up and rebuild by trading Mike Evans is still somewhat alive.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Willie Harris. He's put in his dues managing, a couple of orgs thought highly of him now. Relative to their timidity to hiring outside voices, he's an outsider.