On a related point, maybe one of the lessons from the Bloom arc is don't hire someone who is severely curtailed in how many co-workers can come along to the new gig?
I mean, I can post their resumes, but obviously I have never talked to either of them in person & am not intimately familiar with their exact levels of expertise. If they interview them & find out that either is not cut out for promotion & they have reached their highest level of competence, so be it.
Time will tell, but I expect Sox will hire someone no later than late October.
So idiotic that I clicked through to check the byline to remind me to pay less attention to them going forward (Kaley Brown).
Yep, Bloom's reportedly fired for indecisiveness and the organization is going to wait until the two months into the free agency period before they decide on who to replace him with.
If they wait until January to announce a hire, it just means they’re promoting Romero, or someone else internally.
I'm guessing it could also mean that they weren't the first or even second choice.
If not sooner. Get someone in place so that the new hire can get his or her team in place with time to evaluate the organization top to bottom, get on the same page with ownership, make some new contacts throughout the league and plot the team's course for potential FAs and trade targets.
I don't think they're hiring someone off the Braves or Dodgers coaching staff. These candidates can take a couple of days off in mid-October to do a potentially life-changing interview. It should be a relatively slow time of the year for them.
Olney basically said Hazen is probably just looking for an extension.
View: https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/1703461386570047839
Sorry, still looking to find it. Might have been Rob Bradford. In the meantime, Gammons alludes to it as well:
I think his general inclusion in the Theo "tree" is something many people would find enticing. Yes, the success (or lack thereof) has been mixed among Epstein's front office lineage, but I can see the appeal. Ideally we "WANT" a team that can have a good farm system, regularly be competitive season to season and contend for World Series titles, and generally speaking we had that from 2003-2016 from that mindset. He also has a lot of background in being part of a team that built up some really good farm systems / prospect pipelines here in Boston from 2006 - 2016.
The problem is that being the Red Sox GM provides an opportunity that isn't there in about 3/4 of of organizations; the ability to spend right up to the tax threshold, and in some years over it, pretty much every year. Running the Diamondbacks is different from running the Red Sox in a way that's not so for say, the Hornets and the Celtics. So it's tough to evaluate. Andrew Friedman moved from the Rays to the Dodgers and has crushed it. Bloom had a tougher time. We just don't know.
He is 7 years in. If he's someone worth poaching, he should have a really good resume by now, despite the circumstances.
Lawlar being better than Mayer (irl, not just based on rankings dropping Mayer for playing injured for a few months) would only be a reference point if he drafted Lawlar instead of Mayer.
This is totally fair, but as a part of an overall list of reasons to hire someone, but I do think that understanding the demands of a big market is something that should be looked at as a positive in someone's resume. Regardless of where that is. Familiarity with the biggest markets / smallest fishbowls that tend to come with the North East is, I think, something that is preferable to those on the left coast.
Ketel Marte - November 23, 2016: Traded by the Seattle Mariners with Taijuan Walker to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Zac Curtis, Mitch Haniger and Jean Segura.
I don't mind someone like that in an advisory role. But the game has changed so much, you need someone younger than that. I wouldn't even want Billy Beane as the head guy.
They barely won that Marte trade...
I'm not saying Click is bad...just that he hasn't proven that he's good. He's probably just fine. He inherited a super loaded situation, though. All those guys were already on the cusp or there when Click took over. All the guys you're referring to for Bloom finally made it this year.
I think that he's just messing with us.
Wait, Baltimore? They certainly didn’t compete while they built their farm. They tanked hard.
Mejdal is interesting. I think my only real hesitation is that the things that he's proven that he's really good at aren't really the areas the Red Sox need to improve. Like they fired Bloom presumably to get the next guy to put them over the top, but Mejdal has only gotten up through the player development portion for the most part. If he interviewed well & had really smart ideas about how they could take those next steps, though? I wouldn't be opposed on principal.
They are competing now and yet still have the best farm. Ergo, it's possible.
Totally fair and fine. I mostly agree. The crux is that anyone the Sox are likely to hire are going to have similar (or the same) criticisms.
I mean sure...but 9 years later they've made the playoffs 9 times, will win their 8th division this year, & easily have a top 10 farm system.
Yes, because the fruits of their futility have started to bloom, and their futility lasted so long that they still have plenty of prospects in the pipeline. They had the first pick in the draft (who is now one of the top prospects in all of MLB) as recently as last year. If they have a 5 or 6 year run of 90+ wins, tell me what the farm system looks like at that point.
