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God Rogers is so fucking dumb

I was the one that started complaining about Duncan getting the role. I was merely pointing out that even though you searched for mlb analytics coordinator, what you were pulling from was a director of analytics role, which is why it required all that. The sox would have a similar posting for a role like that.

That's a director of analytics role. This is not that, and it is common for these to go to former players. Pretty sure this was Gabe Kapler's role once, and is Sam Fuld's role with phillies (who was mentioned as a possible white sox manager). This is a teaching role for someone who can process the information and communicate it to the players effectively, and also communicate needs from the players to the analytics group.

There are only 32 of these jobs. The cap space is basically a one year issue. I'm sure things won't be great next year but it's terrible now anyway.

don't forget about debt load.

Glad to see him off twins, but, lots of options in bullpen for them to recover. Notice: Mets signed someone with no GM.

And they finished in 3rd place in their division.

He was a minor league manager and that actually is good experience for teaching analytics since the PD team is more hands on then. My worry is he was the manager at AZ when La Russa was there, then he leaves for the Blue Jays where he didn't have a connection and is dismissed mid season. Fegan mentioned his brother was really sick that year and eventually passed away, and it could have been due to that unfortunate circumstance.

Like he asked nicely?

You can absolutely be worse than nothing.

I really worry about projects like that when we have no room for error. I think about the Reds in a "competitive" year going with Akiyama as their leadoff hitter and he was terrible.

Sounds like Duncan did great in a similar role!

hooray nepotism

That's a really small price to pay for what would be in that bill, especially when faced with the much higher possibility of nothing passing. Legal action for "negligence" was a really large hoop to jump through and offered very little relief, whereas the other stuff on here provides huge relief to many.

The bigger headache tends to be the currency exchange.

Endless infighting among who? Their top execs were all cleared out, Alderson is in place. When he was installed he initially said he was going to interview for a prez of baseball ops and then went back and said that would be him. So clearly they have a decision maker.

Alderson's recent comments have indicated he is not there just to build it out, he is in charge and going to be active as a baseball prez and that's why they are closer to moving on players than people think.

I think hiring a football connected president will do good to ease concerns that bears are in a death spiral the browns were in of cleaning house every few years with no stability. George and Ted will not be stability because they aren't running the football operations. DBB mentioned Eliot Wolf today, who is available. I still say Bears need to raid the Steelers or Ravens of some very high up people and promise them they get the org. New facilities. Flush with cash. Long-term deal. Do what they want with it.

Every year since 2015 we’ve done this dance where there was no prominent connections to a big free agent to the white Sox but soxtalk still gets hyped due to some insider gossip. The Sox being interested in someone means very little. They will never sign an A free agent even if their front office tries very hard. Even if they are optimistic. The problem will always be other teams exist and also want top free agents.

I doubt it. Timelines don’t match up.

I like Joel Sherman a lot but this screams more just looking at fits and making a guess. By fit - Bauer is perfect here or in NY. But that doesn’t get you much farther

Floor is gordon bombay, ceiling kurt warner imo

lol I would love to see this for the reactions.

This is what I thought, they also were seeing their toolsy hitters just not developing a hit tool.

@Y2Jimmy0 is the college bats a timeline thing for the rangers? I thought it was just as much about reversing their strategy of going for super toolsy guys that were just not panning out for them.