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Steve_in_MA
Well, it was my hope that the Sox would replace Cherington with DiPoto, but I guess this would be the next best thing. I still believe we need new personnel in the front office. We keep on making the same mistakes, over and over, and that means new eyes, with different perspectives, would be a major improvement. Not just in the evaluation stages, but in the execution stages, where it counts most.
Mark 21
I believe your biggest issue was already addressed with Larry Lucchino departing from the CEO job. Most every one feels he was a cancer to the club making bad decisions and not letting the front office make the right calls. He would what seamed like over rule any baseball decisions made on trades and free agent singing’s. I am not saying Cherington is the great one but I say give him a year and see how things go now with out Larry Lucchino in the mix. You may find the team improves greatly with a few pitching additions and subtractions like Hanley.
Steve_in_MA
I disagree. I think Lucchino was more reliant on traditional scouting and made better decisions. I think Theo and Cherington have introduced analytics that have actually dragged down the quality of the decisions being made. I think the problems of the last few years have been because Lucchino was losing influence, rather than wielding it.
Vandals Took The Handles
The Red Sox throw money at names. Usually players. They did that last off-season. Now they have a roster that can’t play together. So to cure that they’re going to bring in some names for their front office and watch them not play together? What exactly is this DiPoto thing about? Let’s see – he’s going to “consult” for a few months? Un-huh. So if the Red Sox don’t hire him and he goes to work for another ALE team he tells them what’s going on on the inside of the Red Sox….and the Red Sox know how he’s doing things? I’d suggest the following……
Henry – who it has come out made the the Gonzalez / Crawford / Beckett salary dump trade with Stan Kaston – is now pitting DiPoto against Cherington and maybe Kennedy. This may be good when one has a bunch of commodity traders working for them, but baseball teams are made up of human beings that have to work and play together; not breathing assets with measurable variables attached to them.
So DiPoto will be doing what Allard Baird is doing? Maybe Pat Gillick comes in and says some things? How many high-level people do they bring in for a “new set of eyes”? How about they decide if the people they have are not doing the job, and if so, they bring in someone(s) else and leave them alone.
phillyphanatics
I pretty much agree.
Hanley has not been an uninjured elite player since he was 26 years old – most players hit their prime at 27, but Hanley hit a wall.
On top of that, the Sox staffed their rotation with a bunch of #4 starters – at hefty price tags financially and/or prospect-wise.
Now they feel they need Jerry DiPoto to tell them this? When everyone who follows baseball and is not employed by the Red Sox has been telling them this since spring training?
Must be nice to have money to throw away….
double
Pat Gillick owns part of the Phillies. It’d be quite a coup for a team owner to leave a team for another team, but they are the Red Sox after all. So it’s possible.
phillyphanatics
Up until the all star break, just about everyone owned the Phillies
flyerzfan12
I actually laughed out loud at this. Touche
madmc44
My understanding was Larry got the call from the Dodgers and helped BenC make the deal.?
Maybe JH was tired of hearing a different version of the Infamous Dodger/Sox Bailout.
We all have our hope when this season comes to a merciful end; that Ortiz gets his 500 HR and surpasses a few more household baseball names on the RBI list so he can ride off to the H of F with a $16 M Community Service guarantee so he doesn’t return next season to the Sox.
If someone can straighten out this team that would warrant Exec. of the year–it’s going to be a couple of years.
Vandals Took The Handles
Read ‘The Best Team Money Can Buy’ – by Molly Knight. The way the deal went down was sort of humorous…..or at least the way she wrote it.
Dock_Elvis
“Jerry DiPoto came in here to find out if I know what the heck I’m doing…and I, for one, am excited to find out.”. —John Farrell