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Seby, the 34 wRC+ catcher with the heart of gold.

correct. But i'm further getting the vibes she IS a perfect Jerry hire. Comes from an org where they can obscure whose authority exists so nobody is ever at fault.

Bummer, our DSL team was pretty good at 31-22. Shame they missed out. If only Luis Reyes wasn't garbage.

hired nov 2020...2021...2022...2023 2 atrocious drafts, limited prospect capital, maxxed budget...fighting uphill for the last wildcard spot. Sounds like a Kenny Williams disciple to me.

They were trades, and have nothing to do with budget. Esp weird since Hahn also managed to land Burger via the draft. Burger may be a better draft pick than any of Kim Ngs. This is just way overhyping someone who performed a good trade vs Rick Hahn, whom everyone agrees was the worst GM in baseball. But if you remove that...there's not very much that's impressive happening in Miami.

Hard not to read Law's latest and see that all of Hahns player WAR worth writing about were Laumann picks. That guy went out on an awful pick (Fulmer), but I would have much rather seen him handle 2016 than Hostetler. That draft killed the rebuild.

Rick Hahn fired Doug Laumann for Nick Hostetler and then hired Chris Getz right before he got the reins for the rebuild. WHen the farm was about to be the most important thing to his success, he handed control to the worst scouting director of my sox lifetime, and a guy who had virtually zero player dev experience right before player development was about to go through a revolution. He deserves no sympathy because he couldn't choose the manager. The fact that he thought the manager was what the team was missing just shows that he sucks.

I don't buy the burger power struggle. I think they can only focus on one thing at a time, and solving catcher + pitching staff became more urgent than "offense" so Burger went. I still like Eder thou

is DSL over?

sadly, I can't think of a single instance Morosi has had his pulse on where the sox were going. At this point, I need to hear real momentum on Rizzo's contract breaking down. But I'd still feel (for mizzou fans) like we'd just be the foil for a new deal. I could believe Rizzo gets this job. I have to imagine JR was horrified that Click had to be fired because he wasn't best friends with the owner.

Definitely weird. When I struggle with people at work I'm always floored since we all speak english. Strange we'd have any differences.

I feel a lot of this. I'm gonna be honest, I have watched under 10 games this year. I've gone to only 1. If you were to tell me after the loss in 2021 that that happened, I'd OF COURSE have believed you, but would have been crushed. Crazy it's only 1.5 years from then to here. But, I do think if somehow Mike RIzzo shows up, I'll probably snap back into gear. I do think building a winning baseball org is by far the most interesting task in sports. It's a shame we had 20 years of guys who would rather play golf.

yeah that acronym sucks. I'd like AZL better!

the best part about james click is it means not having to act like the manager is this crucial part of the org, imo

I am a bit floored by this sentiment. Their team is 2 back for the last wild card spot with 2 teams to leap. They are a few over .500. They have been rebuilding this roster for 6 years now. Trying to look at what parts of the org are so admirable right now. - 3 years in, they have a worse farm than the White Sox (26th overall) - Highly touted draft picks like Khalil Watson regressed each year. The second 1st rounder they had, Joe Mack, is only their 22nd rated prospect and is struggling again. - They had the sixth overall pick in 2022, selected and here is the write-up: Their Free Agency period this year was a disaster. Now, where she is good: trades. - The Starling Marte for Jesus Luzardo trade was very good. He's great. - Traded for Tanner Scott - Traded for Luis Arraez - Traded for AJ Puk whose been a good reliever. But much of that staff she inherited. That team that came over from the yankees under Jeter were great at finding intl talent previously...and Ng is reaping the rewards. Eury Perez, Edward Cabrera, both part of an insane 2019 class. I don't know, I'd take that previous marlins front office, personally. I thought that middle-decade yankees Front Office was pretty strong, and cashman has been struggling since they left for the marlins.

Just glad we no longer have posters crusading that tatis is actually still bad and law was just trying to stick it to the Sox. That said, I had my qualms with the international part of the section. And yes I did cancel my athletic sub, but it turned out I had auto renewed in March for the year so not much of a statement made.

100%

I’m a little surprised just because we still run fall instructs, and I’d have picked him to start in extended ST/ACL next year. If he’s expected to be in Kanny, nice to give him some time to get familiar and find housing.

The worst part of the law article is the international section. For one it omits Robert/Abreu, and for two if JR read that his conclusion would be you shouldn’t spend on intl because it’s wasteful. Their problem was they weren’t spending enough. That list of bonus failures would compare to most intl operations. But only the Sox are leaving millions in the budget each year unallocated. Every year. Just laziness.

I kinda wonder…did TLR like Luhnow? The guy drafted like all of the 2013 WS appearing cards in a single draft in 09. He certainly didn’t bring that philosophy to the diamondbacks, but after so much failure post-cards, I wonder what is in his ear on Astro personnel.

What reports are these

Partner in this game you are gonna win 60 and are gonna lose 60, it’s the other 42 that count. In our year unfortunately they went 0-42

The fuse is lit

Incredible. 40% of our wins are via passed balls.

I really think the disasters of birmingham/charlotte become a problem here. You move up these prospects who are used to the game being so secondary to any sort of baseball. Then when they are supplementing a struggling team it's just everyone doing "i'm just here to do some tasks" and not the game intensity that's needed... to say the least.