Nah, it's more like paying a contractor to work on your fix up project who then bolts with your cash. Then you hire his brother who dumps toxic waste in your basement.
Just like he had in 2018 and 19, but refused to sign top free agents with. I can't wait to not get Juan Soto and other real difference makes, so we can throw $80 million at a C level guy.
He turned a 100 loss team into a 120 loss team, yet we are supposed to believe that soon the same guy can turn it into a 90 win team when the cupboard is basically bare from the player side and we have an owner which will not spend in the free agent market, and in fact has mocked the very idea. But somehow, there is a winning team there.
Besides the name on the door, what actually changed that should tell us things might be different? So far I have seen an even lower tier of FAs, prospects beings rushed and jerked around, and the dumping of a bunch of guy Getz was responsible for training, as was the continuation of our kids being baseball stupid.
This is a dude who never seems to err on the side of caution. He rushes prospects, makes big deals, pushes pitchers, etc. If he thinks Crochet is the guy, he will figure out a way to get it done, cost or common sense be damned.
The Sox spending smart in free agency AND being able to cover positions that they spent a decade fucking up at AND getting high end performance out of key prospects is exactly why the Sox being good soon is an unpopular opinion.
I started looking him to to refresh my memory and this is one of the first things I found.
https://www.prospectslive.com/prospects-live/2022/10/29/is-jackson-merrill-the-1-prospect-in-baseball