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Post by NJtoTX on Oct 27, 2021 22:06:34 GMT
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Post by tristramshandy on Oct 28, 2021 4:36:36 GMT
Ozzie Guillen has interviewed for the San Diego Padres job. Really hope he gets it. They are certainly playing the slow game when it comes to getting a new manager; Tingler was fired 20 days ago, and they've only just started interviewing guys, even though they don't seem to have interest in Ron Washington or really anyone who was playing in the championship games. I wonder if with all things equal, they end up going for the Latino manager for the Latino stars on the team.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 28, 2021 6:03:27 GMT
Huge free agent auction in the offseason. I'm glad that most of the big position players are SS and 3B, positions that are not a need for the Red Sox. If the Sox keep their two, Eduardo Rodriguez and Kyle Schwarber and get some reasonable bullpen help, I'll be happy. FFS, no Pablo Sandoval, Hanley Ramirez silliness.
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Post by tristramshandy on Oct 28, 2021 13:33:31 GMT
Huge free agent auction in the offseason. I'm glad that most of the big position players are SS and 3B, positions that are not a need for the Red Sox. If the Sox keep their two, Eduardo Rodriguez and Kyle Schwarber and get some reasonable bullpen help, I'll be happy. FFS, no Pablo Sandoval, Hanley Ramirez silliness. Did ManRam and HanRam ever play on the Sox at the same time?
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Post by klawrencio79 on Oct 28, 2021 14:13:58 GMT
I honestly have no idea what the Mets are going to do this offseason, a prospect that is as titillating as it is terrifying.
Gun to my head, once they sort out their front office (hiring a proper president of operations), I think they're going to sign Javy Baez to one of those 3-year/$80m deals, at which point they'll be over the luxury tax threshold so they may as well go for broke and re-sign Conforto, sign Castellanos and Eduardo Escobar.
A smarter signing would be to grab someone like Cesar Hernandez, a perennially unheralded and underappreciated player who does a lot of things really well and whose AAV is only around $6/7m. He's coming off a down year, having not played well down the stretch for the White Sox.
Y'all can have Jeff McNeil. He's a much better hitter than his line this year showed and his contact rates were all aligned with his career rates, but he's such a whiny, weird-looking dickhead.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 28, 2021 14:15:04 GMT
Huge free agent auction in the offseason. I'm glad that most of the big position players are SS and 3B, positions that are not a need for the Red Sox. If the Sox keep their two, Eduardo Rodriguez and Kyle Schwarber and get some reasonable bullpen help, I'll be happy. FFS, no Pablo Sandoval, Hanley Ramirez silliness. Did ManRam and HanRam ever play on the Sox at the same time? Not sure on dates exactly but I donβt think so
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Oct 29, 2021 0:20:52 GMT
Ozzie Guillen has interviewed for the San Diego Padres job. Really hope he gets it. Nope. Theyβve hired Bob Melvin.
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Post by NJtoTX on Oct 29, 2021 0:25:46 GMT
Ozzie Guillen has interviewed for the San Diego Padres job. Really hope he gets it. Nope. Theyβve hired Bob Melvin. On his 60th birthday, no less.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 29, 2021 0:40:53 GMT
Ozzie Guillen has interviewed for the San Diego Padres job. Really hope he gets it. Nope. Theyβve hired Bob Melvin. There a hire to excite the fans.
Was Jim Riggleman and Jim Fregosi busy?
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Post by tristramshandy on Oct 29, 2021 5:36:38 GMT
Nope. Theyβve hired Bob Melvin. On his 60th birthday, no less. He got the "happy happy" from PTI today - - hours later, he's the Padres manager.
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Post by Shane Falco on Oct 29, 2021 11:39:22 GMT
I'm nervous what happens with Freddie Freeman. The Braves can afford him but some team could easily offer him stupid money like Pujols got with the Angels. If the Braves win tge WS I think FF stays.
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Post by tristramshandy on Oct 29, 2021 13:57:50 GMT
Nope. Theyβve hired Bob Melvin. There a hire to excite the fans.
Was Jim Riggleman and Jim Fregosi busy?
First retread Padres manager since Jack McKeon.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 29, 2021 14:13:41 GMT
There a hire to excite the fans.
Was Jim Riggleman and Jim Fregosi busy?
First retread Padres manager since Jack McKeon. Not a retread manager fan. Yeah, Francona, yeah, Torre. But for every one of those, seems to be 10 Fregosi's, Gene Mauch's, Buddy Bell's, ron Roenicke's
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Post by klawrencio79 on Oct 29, 2021 14:48:28 GMT
I'm nervous what happens with Freddie Freeman. The Braves can afford him but some team could easily offer him stupid money like Pujols got with the Angels. If the Braves win tge WS I think FF stays. As of right now, they have about $70m in space before bumping up against the threshold and their core guys, Acuna and Albies, are already locked up on team friendly deals. Max Fried, Mike Soroka (if he can come back), Luke Jackson, Austin Riley and Dansby Swanson are still in their arbitration years. I can certainly understand the nervousness and you never know, but my gut tells me Freeman will stay with the Braves for the rest of his career, especially after this WS run.
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Post by tristramshandy on Oct 29, 2021 15:31:34 GMT
First retread Padres manager since Jack McKeon. Not a retread manager fan. Yeah, Francona, yeah, Torre. But for every one of those, seems to be 10 Fregosi's, Gene Mauch's, Buddy Bell's, ron Roenicke's I think the team was not a fan of having 10 more Andy Greens and Jayce Tinglers. And from the Padres side of things, we've seen retread Bruce Bochy win three World Series with the Giants.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 29, 2021 15:52:51 GMT
Not a retread manager fan. Yeah, Francona, yeah, Torre. But for every one of those, seems to be 10 Fregosi's, Gene Mauch's, Buddy Bell's, ron Roenicke's I think the team was not a fan of having 10 more Andy Greens and Jayce Tinglers. And from the Padres side of things, we've seen retread Bruce Bochy win three World Series with the Giants. There are better hires that Rerun Bob Melvin or Jayce Tingler and Andy Green. What was Tingler's big item on his resume, bench coach of the Rangers? Whee. Be like a Fortune 500 company hiring for their new CEO an ex regional manager for Blockbuster. For a team that was supposedly a WS threat in April to now being a perpetual 3rd place lumps, I want an exciting hire. Someone who can run the team for 10-15 years. Me, I'd be looking at coaches in Tampa, Houston, Atlanta. Matt Quataro (sp, TB bench coach), Walt Weiss, guys like that.
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Post by tristramshandy on Oct 29, 2021 17:55:20 GMT
I think the team was not a fan of having 10 more Andy Greens and Jayce Tinglers. And from the Padres side of things, we've seen retread Bruce Bochy win three World Series with the Giants. There are better hires that Rerun Bob Melvin or Jayce Tingler and Andy Green. What was Tingler's big item on his resume, bench coach of the Rangers? Whee. Be like a Fortune 500 company hiring for their new CEO an ex regional manager for Blockbuster. For a team that was supposedly a WS threat in April to now being a perpetual 3rd place lumps, I want an exciting hire. Someone who can run the team for 10-15 years. Me, I'd be looking at coaches in Tampa, Houston, Atlanta. Matt Quataro (sp, TB bench coach), Walt Weiss, guys like that.
The point would be more persuasive if I wasn't watching a World Series between Brian Snitker and Dusty Baker. Personally, unless we're talking about football, I think coaching is very overrated.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 29, 2021 18:52:14 GMT
There are better hires that Rerun Bob Melvin or Jayce Tingler and Andy Green. What was Tingler's big item on his resume, bench coach of the Rangers? Whee. Be like a Fortune 500 company hiring for their new CEO an ex regional manager for Blockbuster. For a team that was supposedly a WS threat in April to now being a perpetual 3rd place lumps, I want an exciting hire. Someone who can run the team for 10-15 years. Me, I'd be looking at coaches in Tampa, Houston, Atlanta. Matt Quataro (sp, TB bench coach), Walt Weiss, guys like that.
The point would be more persuasive if I wasn't watching a World Series between Brian Snitker and Dusty Baker. Personally, unless we're talking about football, I think coaching is very overrated. What's wrong with Snitker? One win away from the pennant last year. pennant this year, despite only half a year of Acuna. Take away his first season and he had a damned fine W/L record.
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Post by tristramshandy on Oct 30, 2021 16:37:55 GMT
The point would be more persuasive if I wasn't watching a World Series between Brian Snitker and Dusty Baker. Personally, unless we're talking about football, I think coaching is very overrated. What's wrong with Snitker? One win away from the pennant last year. pennant this year, despite only half a year of Acuna. Take away his first season and he had a damned fine W/L record.
You don't think coaching the Braves versus coaching the Mariners/DBacks/A's has anything to do with that? I'd argue that if their teams were flipped, the win percentage would look pretty similar (and it isn't grossly different to begin with). Snitker has been Manager of the Year once in six years; Melvin has been three times in eighteen years. Seems pretty even to me. But more generally speaking, he certainly doesn't fit the bill of young up-and-coming manager - - he's six years older than Melvin! I don't think Braves fans were thinking that Snitker was "an exciting hire" when they got him.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 30, 2021 17:14:53 GMT
What's wrong with Snitker? One win away from the pennant last year. pennant this year, despite only half a year of Acuna. Take away his first season and he had a damned fine W/L record.
You don't think coaching the Braves versus coaching the Mariners/DBacks/A's has anything to do with that? I'd argue that if their teams were flipped, the win percentage would look pretty similar (and it isn't grossly different to begin with). Snitker has been Manager of the Year once in six years; Melvin has been three times in eighteen years. Seems pretty even to me. But more generally speaking, he certainly doesn't fit the bill of young up-and-coming manager - - he's six years older than Melvin! I don't think Braves fans were thinking that Snitker was "an exciting hire" when they got him. He took over a Braves team that lost 203 games in the 2 1/4 years before. A team that had Freddie Freeman and nothing else. Now closing in on a WS, which would give him as many as Bobby Cox. I might argue that the Padres have more talent on field than the Bravos. Finding the right guy for the team. Remember the NYC headlines when the Yanks hired Torre? "CLUELESS JOE". I was livid when the Red Sox hired Terry Francona.
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