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Outside of the USA most sport leagues have two or three super teams that "everyone" watches and then they also support their local club. With baseball's organic randomness and playoff format, I think you'd still get some parody as far as who the wins the World Series (the regular season would be a different story) and unfortunately I think that situation could be the most profitable for the league. 3 or 4 super teams win 70% of the time, the next 10 clubs from relatively large markets win 20% of the time and the final 15 or so clubs shock the world once a decade. Manfred has some tough decisions to make, but owners (and players) made their bed during the last labor dispute. Both parties only cared about their total piece of the pie. Neither seemed to care about how the $ was distributed. Boras did almost nothing for pre-arb players and owners should have been willing to see the forest through the trees and traded a salary floor for a cap.

Why did he fire all of the coaches that weren't under contract then? He kept anyone under contract and replaced anyone who wasn't. You can get fooled by Hahn 2.0 all you want but it is ONLY about preserving the few million it would have cost to replace them.

If bringing in "new voices was a must" why did Getz sign off on bringing back the pitching coach, hitting coach, base coaches and Grady from the worst team in the history of baseball? Jerry wasn't going to pay two people to do one job, so we don't get fresh start over what??? Less than 3 million? I'm not sure another organization in professional sports would have retained essentially the entire coaching staff after 2024.

Jerry sure has a type, affable yes-men who have a masters degree in placating. My least favorite part of the interview was Chris sidestepping why he brought back the assistant coaches (who all just so happened to be under contract) IMMEDIATELY after he took a freaking victory lap on cleaning house and changing some processes. Props to Guff for asking, wish he would have followed back up on it. I appreciated Getz's candor about the Crochet stuff. Really wish he would have outlined how the org bent over for him at seemingly every step of the way prior to that trade deadline. As a face of the front office, Getz is fine. Just wish he was the frontman for a real President or GM, not just Jerry's errand boy.

He's keeping the coaches that were under contract. They replaced the coaches that weren't under contract. Jerry's way.

Wonder what Morosi's handle is here? Hi Jim.

If Jerry wants MLB ready position players to help save face in the short term, Getz is going to get worked (again). If a team is "all-in" enough to acquire the best available trade piece, they generally don't have MLB ready anything to spare, especially in this era. Jerry if you are desperate to improve in 2025 you have to spend some money. Trade Crochet (and Robert) for the best package of prospects that are at least one year away. Dealing him for a couple early arb underachievers that contenders are ready to move on from to save a few bucks while you chase 63 wins is a huge waste of value.

Robert needs to be a guess hitter... specifically where he isn't the guesser. To my eye it feels like he is just so stubborn about not missing a fastball opportunity that he consistently ruins at-bats. Let them get him out with fastball once in a damn while, it won't kill him. Put some tape out there calmly taking sliders away and that will change everything. The bench needs to give him a Yes or a No pre-pitch in most situations. I'm guessing Thames ain't the guy for the job. Then maybe down the road once he reestablishes himself, (and possibly learns to think along with the dugout & the pitcher) that then he can try and go back to a more traditional approach.

Oh your clock started? Better get an image and have surgery. Velo down? Not sure why? Better get an image and have surgery. The Sox were involved in the first chapter: Zack Wheeler getting more money because he pitched less. That was the beginning of the end. Unless the league office makes some drastic changes to service time and roster rules, the next generation of MLB pitchers will be nameless, faceless, supporting characters who go once through the lineup every 3rd day.

Pressure is on Getz to acquire MLB ready talent. Buyers of pitchers with one year of control remaining generally don't have high end MLB ready talent to spare.

What channels are missing from Directv stream?

What is Directv Streaming missing? Did anyone switch to that? I heard nothing about it but everyone yelling about Fubo. I google what it has and doesn't have and obviously get 100 different answers over the past couple years. Looks like it is a tad more expensive. I've had Fubo before and it doesn't have Turner. I went back to it again after the NBA playoffs because YoutubeTV didn't have MLB Network (Which is finally now included with MLB.TV so that no longer matters) and I thought the general picture quality was poor and it loaded slower. Also bought the stock at $40 and it is now a dollar.

Of all of Jerry's sins, using leverage to try and get a stadium deal is not in the top 10. This is how the game is played, almost everywhere, by almost every owner. Honestly, lets hope he is actually trying to build a new ballpark and this isn't some dog and pony show to appease minority owners and ultimately to get another favorable lease in Bridgeport.... which is what I fear is happening.

We didn't just trade for him, we fell completely in love with him and crafted a ridiculously lopsided trade to loop in another team to just take every possible asset the Sox had to offer. Vargas was clearly Getz's guy and he was an unmitigated disaster by every measure.

For the foreseeable future, the Sox need a vanilla announcer to just calmly call the game, let it breath and let Stone talk. Schriffen is the exact opposite.