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If there's a word cloud of the things said in this press conference, communication would probably be the biggest word in it.

If Griftol is just a decent manager, he'll look lightyears better than Tony. La Russa being out of the game for 10 years and him being 77 really put the Sox at a huge disadvantage every night.

I'm guessing his health probably played a role in that. The Sox absolutely killed starters in 2021. So either we got lucky all year in 2021 or there was some planning going into 2021, but not so much in 2022.

Hahn bringing up changes to pre-game planning for the offense. I guess that's something that Tony didn't do.

Griftol saying that the Sox didn't have high energy last year. I guess that's what happens when Low Energy Tony is your manager.

Them harping on communication and collaboration this much makes me think Tony just sat around in his office and didn't talk to anyone.

Oh no, Hahn just thanked Josh Harrison for sharing his number...maybe I was wrong about him not being back.

How many times did Hahn and the FO rehearse this elevator pitch about Pedro? lol

Anyone got a link to the press conference? Edit:

Dragic was awesome last night. It looked like he was 10 years younger on some of those scores.

Harrison not coming back confirmed.

That guy must have something on Jerry.

More pulled fly balls and less fly balls to the warning track in CF will greatly help this offense.

The guy worked with 2 players who couldn't untap their power potential and they both ended up hitting 48 homers after. I don't think that's some sort of coincidence.

Phillies are gonna get no hit

lol damn MLBTR just gave Northbrook Bob credit.

So the opposite of Miguel Cairo. As we saw with Cairo, him being loud worked for a little bit. But when the going got tough, the team quit on him.

All I remember about Claypool was him celebrating a first down while the clock was ticking during the last 45 seconds of a close game last year. They ended up losing 15 seconds on the clock because of it and ran out of time.

Eloy's best case scenario is 2019 Soler.

I think that was LSU

This feels like an overpay to fix the trash Velus Jones pick.

Looks like Griftol has been in the mix for every managerial job at all levels of baseball

FanGraphs had them at half a WAR. Either way, absolutely awful.

I got offered that in Chicago about 10 years ago as someone fresh out of college. I'd imagine the pay is way better now. I was more or less referring working on the west coast (Bay Area/Seattle) where starting salaries out there are easily 100k+. Chicago is cheaper, but 65k is still low even when you factor in cost of living.

Moncada and Grandal were the biggest problems last year. They put together maybe 1 WAR last year when the projections expected 7-8 out of them. That's a 7 win difference alone right there.