SoxBlanco

I hate to defend Hahn here, but this continues to be overblown. He listed characteristics of what he's looking for in a manager. He then conducted an extensive interview process and hired who he thinks is best for the job. Yes, it's possible the best guy for the job doesn't have those characteristics. I mean, how likely is somebody sitting around that checks all those boxes? I have absolutely no problem with Hahn saying those things and then hiring Grifol.

Ha, I was just wondering what the point of his post was. Thanks for asking.

I beat @Sleepy Harold at posting a tweet! I can die a happy man now.

What's not true?

No

Long and Getz the most likely at this point?

Sounds like we have no choice but to sign Nimmo.

Is this in reference to something you heard? Or in reference to the current candidates being discussed here?

If offered both jobs, do you think he’d choose the Sox over Miami?

Yep. There’s a quality/characteristic in players that is hard to describe or quantify. Not just the cliche “TWTW”, but a certain attitude that comes with the way you play. Some guys want to win more than others, demand accountability, and do the little things (baseball smarts) to make it all happen. And I hate to say it, but Elvis Andrus was the closest I saw to that type of guy all year on the Sox.

Here’s a number for you: Just when you thought the season couldn’t get any worse, the Sox actually scored a negative amount of runs in their last inning of the year.

The luck evens out there. Brutal call, but Cleveland was so god damn lucky on those last two at bats. The location of both grounders was insanely lucky for Cleveland.

This is the biggest mystery to me. It's so obvious that the team has been playing with more intensity and fire, and has been having much more fun since TLR left. No rational person can possibly want TLR back. But what I don't understand is the home run boost. Why are we all of a sudden lifting the ball and hitting it out of the park more frequently now? Does playing loose somehow correlate to getting lift? I can't figure that one out. EDIT: I should add that I know people are saying the contact approach was TLR, but that still doesn't make sense. What was going to happen if they tried to hit more home runs? Would they be benched for not following the orders of hitting for contact? No chance. If they were capable of hitting the ball out of the park, why didn't they try it sooner?

Just tuning in now. How did Kopech look, stuff wise? I like that he had no BBs.

If they don’t want Cease getting too much rest and throwing off his routine, I would just flip-flop Giolito and Lynn. Let Lynn face Cleveland on Thursday, and then have Lucas open up the series against Detroit. There is no scenario where I’m pitching Giolito in the biggest game of the year.

F*ck you, Twins. Runners at the corners with no outs and can’t score.

Yep. With all the injury concerns, you’d be selling low every time. I really want to see the numbers he would put up if he played 140/150 games in a season.

I’m not talking about how many runs he gave up. I was simply referring to watching him pitch. His stuff is just bad right now. When your fastball is a straight-as-an-arrow 4-seamer, and you can’t even command it very well, you aren’t going to fool anyone. The change-up isn’t as effective because of that, and the slider isn’t very good. He just doesn’t look good. I think a good offense would light him up at this point.

While that is definitely true, if you also look at his stuff, he doesn’t have much of anything. A good offense would pound him right now with that stuff.

I don’t think there’s any question that the team is better now. Just look at the starting rotation. It’s not even comparable.

Which team do you think has more talent? 2020 or 2022?

He pitched a scoreless, 3 up/3 down inning. What do you mean by “what happened to him”?

Thanks for the jinx! Sox have finally done the job today.