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Might as well just name Perez the player/manager/catching coach and kill three birds with one stone...

https://www.mlb.com/royals/team/front-office/gene-watson Watson has experience with multiple other orgs (Angels more recently) and Barfield helps tick off the Balta Boxes as well.

Won't work in AL East.

“It's a reflection of the elitism now saturating the highest levels of baseball. The generation of young executives that believes it's reinventing the game could use a reminder that the truly elite wear the uniform. After all, a kid has a better chance of getting into Harvard than reaching the big leagues. As the Red Sox seek a fresh start after four largely irrelevant seasons under Bloom, perhaps a return to the basics is in order. Prospects are to be nurtured and protected, but they can also be traded for proven talent. Payroll flexibility is nice, but only if you use it. The big-league club matters at least as much as the farm system.” ….. Allow me this indulgence, but it's no coincidence the game's bloated titles have proliferated during the rise of the bloodlessly impersonal front office. Numbers matter more than people to such an extent that merely calling them numbers betrays your ignorance, because the correct term is "data." Everything is a stat, everything can be quantified, and the numbers rule all. It's how the Red Sox could sign a parade of 7.00 ERA pitchers during Bloom's tenure, because the underlying data supported it. It's also why every front office now employs an army of analysts, whose primary purpose is to make the case for and against everyone, so nobody can make a decision or ever be wrong. In a world where traditional baseball men are being composted in favor of cookie-cutter Ivy Leaguers with the same haircuts and the same idiosyncratically privileged degrees in Latin or art history, no one can settle for a quotidian title like general manager. Organizations must devote entirely too much thought to why their new leader should be called chief baseball officer, which is what the Red Sox settled on four years ago, and which I've resented typing ever since. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/simple-request-red-sox-hiring-171834000.html

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/mets-vs-marlins/2023/09/19/716523/final/wrap 4th career walk off hit in his relatively short career 42 career homers in 668 at bats for Jake Burger 91 career homers for Moncada in 2733 at bats Moncada wins batting average for career .254 to .250

https://sports.yahoo.com/aj-preller-bob-melvin-rift-reportedly-among-the-san-diego-padres-many-issues-043608924.html Looks like Melvin OR Preller or both will be shown the door...

Should be Hostetler...?

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2023/09/18/stadium-gas-plant-district-2028-tropicana-field-stuart-sternberg/?itm_source=parsely-api 30,000 seats, $1.2 billion, massive area redevelopment plan attached (sounds quite familiar now, KC with the exact same plan that all pretty much attempt to emulate Ricketts/Wrigleyville

But what happens to Jeremy Haber, lol? This puts all the Dayton Moore rumors to bed, at least.

Quickest route to the GM job...Getz isn't going to get a decade of 100+ loss teams...it's only going to take 2-3 more years of that abject misery.

I've seen the name of course but Twitter is blocked here in China and sometimes the VPN is unreliable.

Corbin Carroll would be a superstar on the East Coast or even the Cubs. Hazen has done an excellent job turning that franchise around in the face of LAD SFG SDP. And adding Zac Gallen was one of the better moves in recent years.

We can just pretend that Watson was the one responsible for the Cole Ragans move with the Rangers for Chapman... Royals’ evaluation took note of one big positive Royals pitching coach Brian Sweeney heard one central theme from opposing teams when discussing Ragans’ rise in the organization. The theme was simply: Ragans is a force to be reckoned with. Sweeney said the Royals did their homework on Ragans. They evaluated his entire makeup prior to acquiring him from the Rangers. The process took a couple of days, as the Royals studied different domains. The Royals explored his medicals, strength and conditioning, nutrition and mental health. The organization also utilized sports-science data and explored his pitching delivery. The process gave the organization a complete evaluation of Ragans as an athlete and person. Next, the Royals dived into his pitching arsenal and plan of attack. Previously, Ragans has thrown a four-seam fastball, changeup, cutter, slider and curveball. Perhaps most importantly, the Royals noticed an increase in Ragans’ fastball velocity. His fastball jumped from 92.1 mph in 2022 to 96.2 mph this season. Ragans ranks in the 89th percentile in fastball spin, per Baseball Savant. As a result, Royals general manager J.J. Picollo and his staff came to a decision. The consensus was Ragans was the guy to pursue. Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mlb/kansas-city-royals/article278117072.html#storylink=cpy

And whether that's a sign that Katz might likely to be on the way back to the West Coast and/or wherever Flaherty or Giolito end up.

Interesting that Barfield didn't first wait to see if Hazen was able to secure the Red Sox job...

Maye just has never added up to the sum of all his parts...and one can never really trust that UNC team to show up in big games. Williams or just for now. Ewers and now Deion's son are potentially 3/4 at this point. McCarthy around QB5? Young is looking too undersized for now with Carolina...he is more of a precision passer than a Josh Allen type and that only works in a scheme perfectly aligned with his talents.

Is that Chris Pine's brother?

Vera isn't trending well at all either. The Cuban Connection finally evaporated. And the Dominican Connection has maxed out at Dave Wilder and Jesus Pena.

Except they can't guarantee Top 3-5 picks year after year with the new rules. Just #3/4 in 2024. 2025 they wouldn't be allowed to draft in the Top Ten assuming they're 90+ losses bad again next year. And they almost never make the ideal draft picks anyway...wit's the exceptions of Sale and Anderson in a decade plus of picking relatively high. I guess Rodon had his two years...one with the Sox and one with SFG.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bauer-000tre I went to the far right because that's usually ERA. At any rate, the game I watched in July he was terrible and disinterested. He has done much better since that start. But it's the equivalent of the Bears bring in Mel Tucker Jr. to coach. It's just never going to happen. That said...they would have to win. Period. If it backfired...they would risk losing viability as a franchise in Chicago without a new stadium plan or ownership group.

Costner?

4.71 ERA in Japan for Bauer hardly screams move that will instantly move the White Sox back into contention...

https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-white-sox/jacob-gonzalezs-potential-impact-on-white-sox-shortstop-situation/ Looks like they were looking mostly at players that profiled at SS / 3B / 2B.

https://sports.yahoo.com/red-sox-want-hit-home-181532764.html Mike Hazen of AZ emerging as yet another top candidate for Boston GM job

The annual average salary for those who coach women's teams is $64,262 and the average for those who coach men's is $114,237 Ball State University (State) head baseball coach salary GovSalaries https://govsalaries.com › salaries › ball-state-university... The average Ball State University (State) head baseball coach salary was $285,801, which is 22 percent higher than the average salary for this job in Indiana, ... Said the Top 25% pitching coach salary was $60-75,000, but that seems too low. $85-115+ seems closer to being right for Div 1. The annual average salary for those who coach women's teams is $64,262 and the average for those who coach men's is $114,237. Definitely much better than a White Sox scouting salary.