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Feels like jerry would vote no because he thinks cohen will be a big driver of salaries.

https://thatballsouttahere.com/2019/10/13/phillies-sam-fuld-manager-candidate/

Cringe last scene for me but yeah pretty entertaining. I can’t stand Eddie Redmayne though. Cohen and strong were great.

Wait but Mike Trout did struggle

CK killing it. Glasnow is so filthy.

Me when they re-sign Mazara https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJaSaXSJ/ (had to embed link when video was crazy big. Maybe I should just delete this. Oh well)

For the record Fuld has interviewed for quite a few manager positions last few years so it’s not out of nowhere

I think that anytime someone mentions Ibanez

I'd be happy with this. It's the baldelli route and that's fine and good. I'd rather sox have a system where manager responsibilities are more distributed than the superstar manager route.

Tired of larussa talk so lets do it. Pros: Good name, I could see it working I like "Rising Star" as a thing Cons: No experience Stanford - annoying alumni, but maybe this is a pro as they are less annoying than michigan (sorry @Brian ) His name's pun potential more often denotes bad things so maybe we'll put it in the bad column too

So your point is that Luhnow was happy when he was hired that he would have decision-making power over whether the astros players were allowed to do banned things, and if he would have told luhnow he wanted to stop doing a banned thing, he would have lost all credibility with his players and all hell would break loose. Solid argument, I'm going to tap out.

Gametime tactics sure. They trusted his info from being around the players. If he would have said he doesn't want players using rapsodo, he wouldn't be the manager.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/world-series-confidential-randy-arozarenas-future-with-rays/ no real news but, whatever, some snippets on TLR/Bochy

Of course Hinch wasn't in charge of the clubhouse.

You know it's funny but the actual poll options were good but nobody discusses them. The winner was that he should have tried to stop it internally so at least it was clear it was being directed by Luhnow.

I am very excited to do mine but it's too early can't believe people doing it before even arb projections.

Ah. Yeah I looked at him last week but didn’t see any mentions of him so figured there wasn’t interest in the NL teams.

Quatraro?

Said in my post a while ago. It's not for me that he needs to be paired with someone younger, it will be easier to swallow for me if it's clear with the pitching coach and other coaches and player dev staff that their efforts to modernize their player dev does not end on the field. If he's just overseeing accountability and handling the bullpen, I'm sure it will be fine.

I thought about this too long which isn't a good sign.

Players I'm excited to see: Glasnow, Azorena (Its going to take a while before I can spell that right from memory), More Dustin May/Buehler, Mookie in RF and Bellinger going to be fun. But a Glasnow/Kershaw game will be epic.

I think this is the long and short of it for what they have to play with. I wouldn't be surprised if new TV deal + shortened season meant sox plugged their losses in 2020. And that's a big reason why FA signings may delay. Teams may wait to see likelihood of starting 2021 with fans, maybe being more optimistic if the nov 2020 J&J vaccine drops.

Had the Braves won last night I think they could beat Rays. I don't think there is much talent diff between them and Rays. Dodgers talent diff feels much higher but their rotation has not played up to potential in playoffs last decade. Anderson and Fried were filthy and they are only gaining Soroka next year. That's a big 3 that rivals anyone. Wright got rocked in the CS but can definitely become a good-to-great piece. If anything I think Braves should be happy. In early august it was looking like their wealth of pitching was falling apart. Between injuries and players like folty and touissant falling off of a cliff, along with FA signings like hamels not playing and soroka injured, it was rough. Then Anderson and Fried dominate and you remember that if players from a group of prospects become elite and not just good it does so much for a rebuild. They have Pache arriving for good. Riley and Waters probably for good. Money that went to a sandoval or markakis and ozuna can be redistributed to plug up holes.

I agree very disappointed in Miller. That said, i don't think it's accurate to say he was a whiff of 2 second round picks. That year we picked James Daniels in the 2nd, then traded a future 2nd for a 2nd that year. So it was the equivalent of losing just one second rounder.

Excellent matchup