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Not many are in position to, though. I guess boston is the one I'm most confused about.

https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/cardinals-had-exit-strategy-for-mcgwire/ So yeah, they did. I was wrong about the executives bit, but this was what I remembered. I'm not saying this is awesome by Larussa, but he brought in a former player to a competitive team knowing it could be a media storm and distraction and did it because he thought it would help him. HE took the heat and asked him to trust him. So yeah, he defends his players and former players even when he benefitted from them but it isn't helpful t him at the time. Hence it being an example of his relationships with players. OTOH, he hated scott rolen.

I'm going to be fascinated to see where Hand goes on waivers, but way more fascinated if no team picks up the $10 mill as that is going to be a pretty big insight into what kind of winter we're looking at

Realmuto seems like the BVW guy if he's still the gm...

Not sure you understand what loyalty is. But sticking by someone when they are no longer benefitting you and are being pressured to fire them from both the org and outside is an example of loyalty yes. Not a hard concept either!

I'm not saying they AREN'T with my comment, but they may also be reacting to the reaction now. And I think there is a knee jerk reaction about him just being a hardass that isn't accurate. There will be time for him to come to them, and I do think he will try to get them on his side.

I bet part of it specifically here is JR not being really open to reasons to why TLR wouldn't be a great fit. I'm sure he was like "you guys need a manager, I can get you one of the best managers of all time". And then trying to sell him AJ hinch or a bench coach I'ms ure he was just obtuse about the whole thing and they struggled to push back.

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lol

We'll allow robert and anderson to go down as many buttons as they'd like, but Eloy hasn't earned that button until he can play a better left field.

I've been one of the main people worried about discord that could be stoked by tlr's clubhouse, as he has sometimes not gotten along with prominent players and publicly. That said - let's not go overboard. A lot of players were fiercely loyal to him. Pujols loved him. McGwire followed him. He didn't fire McGwire from his staff after mcgwire admitted using steroids. He's not quite a buck showalter or even joe girardi hard-ass. He's just had some real clique-y clubhouses where he can play favorites.

I think some of this was St Louis puritanism moreso than Larussa. That said I'd be okay if they asked eloy to go one button up, there are children watching.

man sure is a firestorm from hiring Hinch. Poor tigers.

Detroit has Miguel Cabrera.

That's the thing, I actually had a huge range of candidates or types I was ok with. But what I wanted was organizational cohesion. This was the opposite of that.

That's why you offer him money, I don't understand why sox should pre-emptively avoid targeting him just because he says he'd have to sit down with his family.

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I never give a shit about this stuff. If sox have highest offer let him make his choice on whether 1 month out of the year is that important (especially when he's 37.)

not sure there was a single team in the league that followed analytics to a fault more than the pittsburgh pirates. See how your boy Kevin Cash was able to turn Tyler Glasnow from a failure in pitt to an ace by not ignoring his strengths that were apparent by looking at him, and not forcing him to throw two seamers to suppress home runs.

I'd prefer him paired with another guy.

Was hoping that would be the case, yeah I think he's a great fit that has seemed to get more durable as he gets older.

Love bochy, would have been happy there.

Nice, keep us updated

To me there's a couple things: 1. The process was bad, owners meddling like this rarely works out. 2. The job of manager has changed a lot. More so than "the analytics" people obssess over, it's been a position that has been more deeply integrated with the front office player development and analytics teams. Tony was a superstar manager that was given players and was allowed to own that entire process. The front office expects that collaboration, but Tony is set-up not to have to give it. He has the owners ear and did him a favor coming back, after all. It just sets up soo much conflict.

I definitely think that's a part, but I also think the other part is the increase of velocity in pitching and talent finally catching up to the mass expansion from the 90s.