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JR, Moore, Pedro, Getzie, Hostetler for life (still room for Buddy Bell, yet another front office person connected to KC)

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/getzch01.shtml#all_batting_standard Please please find someone who values walks/OBP in their player evaluations...

Eric Neander Rays Brandon Gomes Dodgers Will Rhymes, Director of Player Development, LA Dodgers If the name sounds familiar, it’s probably because it is. Rhymes, 39, played for the Tigers from 2010-11. He was drafted by Detroit in the 27th round in 2005. He was the team’s starting second baseman in 2011. In two years with the Tigers, he slashed .283/.341/.370 with a .711 OPS. He played 47 games for Tampa (again?) in 2012, putting up a .584 OPS. He played in the minors for the Washington Nationals in 2013 before calling it a career in 2014. Rhymes previously served as an assistant farm director for Los Angeles before being promoted to director of player development in 2019. The fact that Rhymes played for the Tigers is already intriguing. The Tigers already have several members of their coaching staff, including Hinch, bench coach George Lombard, and third base coach Ramon Santiago, among others, that spent time in Detroit as players. Adding a GM that played for the Tigers would be pretty cool, and that fact the he also comes from the Dodgers is an added bonus. The Dodgers have a loaded farm system pretty much every year. Even better, they have developed a track record of having players develop further after reaching the big leagues. A perfect example of this is Max Muncy. He was a nobody with the Oakland Athletics, then he comes to LA and hits 35 homers with a .973 OPS in 2018, which is before Rhymes was promoted to his current position, but it just goes to show how good the Dodgers are at developing players. He is also known for having one of the best eyes in the league, boasting a career walk rate of 15.1%. Theo Epstein someone from the SF Giants below their top 2 Jeffrey Luhnow Matt Arnold, just started with the Brewers Mike Chernoff/Chris Antonetti, Guardians https://theathletic.com/3507311/2022/08/15/tigers-next-gm-candidates/

Elly De la Cruz HR, 3B six RBIs Back in the NL Central WC race again

Would take a well-motivated Luhnow over just about anyone else. Just don't see it actually happening. https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/2015/06/tony-la-russa-speaks-out-on-cardinals-hacking.html You'd think he would have some interesting opinions...having been right in the middle of it all. "Once you're with an organization for eight or nine years, you feel like you're a part of it forever, and I take a lot of what I learned over there and apply it over here," said Luhnow, who was hired Dec. 7. "Those relationships will be there with those individuals. It was a special time in my life, going through three World Series and winning two of them with the club, and it's something I hope we can replicate over here." The series will also be the first against the Cards for Astros bench coach Joe Pettini, who came to Houston after longtime manager Tony La Russa retired last fall. Luhnow was the Cardinals' director of player procurement when the Astros tabbed him to be their 12th general manager. He began working for the club in 2003, and he helped them acquire several impact players that played a part in St. Louis winning the World Series in 2011, including Jaime Garcia, Allen Craig, John Jay and Daniel Descalso. One of the key philosophies Luhnow brought to Houston from St. Louis was an emphasis on data-based analysis and the use of technology in scouting and player evaluation. One of his first hires was director of decision sciences Sig Mejdal, who handled analytics for the Cards from 2005-11. In eight years with the organization, Luhnow won eight rings -- five Minor League championships, an NL championship ring and two World Series rings. In fact, Luhnow said he will receive one of the two 2011 Minor League championship rings this weekend, but he'll have to wait until next month to receive the World Series ring. "A lot of players from that team, I was involved in helping them get drafted or develop or in the trades that brought them over, so I have a connection to them," he said. "The team is obviously doing well. Our goal is to beat them once the games start. It's going to be fun to see all those guys at Minute Maid Park and say hello to all of them, and it's going to be a big test for our club to see where we are and play a team as good as the Cardinals are right now." https://www.mlb.com/news/jeff-luhnow-looking-forward-to-reunion-with-st-louis-cardinals/c-30318992

Getz actually did win a championship ring with the 2015 Royals. Of course, that was his very first year with the organization, so hard to imagine he was all that influential in bringing that championship culture about, especially as they came so close in 2014 against Madison Bumgarner that it came down to the final inning of the final game.

Rodriguez tear stopped cold by the flu.

LoL.

Mike Ford must be related to Lew Ford of Piranhas fame.

Time for the Whack A Mole bullpen...

Have to keep that runner off second...

Walk Benintendi?

Colas 582 Anderson 573 Brian Anderson-esque

Colas Thompson Perez will save the day. Benintendi Grandal Moncada bench

They're going to sign Josh Hader and then he will blow up in similarly spectacular fashion.

Houston and Texas must be considering lawsuits at this point against Grifol or the Sox/JR.

Edgar Navarro NOW? Your what hurts? DFAd Honeywell after Padres abused his arm...same will happen to Santos at this rate. Then they will eventually end up on the Yankees.

Fire Grifol. Or reward him for securing #3 pick?

Sigh.

31 pitches

Gotta be kidding Sox fans with this...

The crazy thing with KC is that nearly every one of their top prospects and trades (like Cain and Escobar) hit over a 4-5 year period. Perfect bullpen for a couple of years like the 2005 White Sox. Perfect late inning strategies like Dyson and Gore for late innings. But the rotation was not built to be sustainable and then Yordano Ventura died as well. And the prospect pipeline went completely dry. Resigned a fading Alex Gordon (almost lost him to the White Sox!)

Trayce Thompson 4th in current lineup OPS...

Inspired by presence of TLR?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-white-sox-draft-haugh-spt-0612-20170611-story.html Now we have Nick Hostetler, Dayton Moore and Buddy Bell tied together lol. https://theathletic.com/40094/2017/02/23/new-rising-star-in-white-sox-front-office-is-a-familiar-face/ “Getzy’s special,” Royals general manager Dayton Moore said. “He has an unbelievable ceiling as an executive in this game.”