Completely off topic, but there are real drawbacks to promoting security from within.
Sake of argument, let's say that a blended bag of behind-the-scenes office workers makes ~$150K, benes/etc. in.
Absolutely leads to high turnover. It includes "baseball operations" staff, but with it goes support staff that came/goes with them or who don't want to be around the turmoil (especially in an industry that notoriously does not excellently).
I like the idea of a 3rd party doing it because 1. it ain't my money, and 2. no one within the Sox has to take (much) time away from, you know, making the team better, during this audit. You bring in an outsider for independence and, if you can afford it, the luxury of keeping your resources allocated as you wish (for now).
If the final product is an org chart - yeah, big waste of time and money.
So why bring in an outside organization to do it? Isn't that why you hire underlings, to do that very job and run the department you're put in charge of?
Interested in your opinion why? I know a few members of security,, the hardest part is finding guys who want to do the job year after year, as the hours suck, and the non game day jobs are generally boring, if you can even get enough hours to live on. Getting guys willing to put up with that to become supervisors or just experienced enough to get lead roles seems to do a good job of getting the cream to rise to the top. With outsourced security, much of the time the good workers will end up on other gigs and not get enough Fenway experience to take lead roles.
If they can cut 30 office workers, then yes, saving $4.5 million on the bottom line matters. Has nothing to do with player salaries. But this isn’t just a “who goes, who stays” project, it also looks at other costs including software redundancies, resource wasting processes, like unnecessary meetings, etc, etc. Helps the team redirect assets to more effective needs.
I worked for PwC for 18 years. We were the consultants the corporations hired. It was the same thing over and over. New leader needed help moving boxes on the org chart, and the new leader wanted to get rid of the old regime.
You are well quite well informed here, and I also think this is what happened.
They continuously added to that team during the years I was with the Foundation. Our desks kept getting moved until we were in the old bowling alley, and then across the street. Always due to “more analytics guys”. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were 50 when I was last there in 2019
facts not in evidence.
This is a bit different.
My honest guess is there are probably now like 10 people with titles like ‘director of pitch analytics’. And head of ‘pitch optimization’ and they were all utter useless sacks of shit, which is why our pitching was a dumpster fire until Breslow showed up and put them on ice.
Then it is a really shitty audit. Even if you are explicitly looking at just the FO without the coaching staff how are you going to audit the effectiveness of the FO without looking the interaction, feedback, and effectiveness of the coaching staff from output of the FO. We already know two things, the performance of the product is underwhelming long term and revenue has lowered.
You would be surprised. While this would the case in corporate America, a lot of people take a discount to work from the Sports Teams. They don't pay market rate for data scientists.
Maybe you are oversensitive to the criticism(s)? Who said anything about Mookie or not enjoying the 2024 team?
Because Breslow himself thinks he can probably make an informed decision on Cora. But maybe not so much about the working relationship between the Dominican Academy and the international scouting cross-checkers or some other far-flung groups.
Breslow seems to have a good handle of the coaching staff already. And the team is currently outperforming its talent level by a significant margin.
Interesting, I could see this. Recall from NESN adjacent conversations that the draw for someone from this region to join is so strong it creates its own incentive.
I would instead say the pitching talent (at least) is now being properly cultivated and utilized. You could perhaps even say it's being maximized.
Agree. Which reinforces the point that the consultants are not coming in to evaluate the coaching staff. But there are a whole lot of other employees in baseball operations department (the article hints at a few hundred perhaps), and if Breslow or Theo or Sam Kennedy or Tom Werner or John Henry want to spend money to find out what everyone is doing, so be it. Whether doing so is a waste of money or not is literally of zero concern to me as a fan of the product on the field.
I get what you're saying.
I don't get this reaction. Nobody forced any news of this story on you, you literally had to search for it (or click on this thread).
