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6 minutes ago, Springfield Soxfan said:

Excuse my ignorance or naivety but as to whom are they replacing?

Here is the current White Sox front office.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/team/front-office
 

Jeremy Haber is currently listed as the assistant GM. They could certainly expand their staff and have more than one of those, but most likely he is being specifically replaced or moved to another position. The roles for the other two could be in n place of several different people, or again they could expand their staff.

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53 minutes ago, bmags said:

The interesting thing about poaching from the giants pitching vs other strong pitching orgs like MIL is how much production they found on vet FAs. Turning guys like Gausman/Rodon into cy young candidates but just getting solid / good production out of desclafani s and Alex Cobb.

That would be a way to turn around at least 1 of our under producing units.

Get us back to 74 wins

Do the Giants really get credit for Rodon? Or is that Katz? 

Or is it Katz, via the Giants?

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So more Royals stuff, Brian Bannister played most of his career with the Royals and was teammates with Getz there in 2010. He is the son of Sox great Floyd Bannister.  He went to the same high school as Paul Konerko.  He is also a super accomplished photographer, having been a Fine Arts major at USC.

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25 minutes ago, Timmy U said:

So more Royals stuff, Brian Bannister played most of his career with the Royals and was teammates with Getz there in 2010. He is the son of Sox great Floyd Bannister.  He went to the same high school as Paul Konerko.  He is also a super accomplished photographer, having been a Fine Arts major at USC.

Also happens to be highly regarded:

https://www.si.com/.amp/mlb/2019/06/07/boston-red-sox-brian-bannister-mvp-machine

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“It's a reflection of the elitism now saturating the highest levels of baseball. The generation of young executives that believes it's reinventing the game could use a reminder that the truly elite wear the uniform. After all, a kid has a better chance of getting into Harvard than reaching the big leagues.

As the Red Sox seek a fresh start after four largely irrelevant seasons under Bloom, perhaps a return to the basics is in order. Prospects are to be nurtured and protected, but they can also be traded for proven talent. Payroll flexibility is nice, but only if you use it. The big-league club matters at least as much as the farm system.”

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Allow me this indulgence, but it's no coincidence the game's bloated titles have proliferated during the rise of the bloodlessly impersonal front office. Numbers matter more than people to such an extent that merely calling them numbers betrays your ignorance, because the correct term is "data."

Everything is a stat, everything can be quantified, and the numbers rule all. It's how the Red Sox could sign a parade of 7.00 ERA pitchers during Bloom's tenure, because the underlying data supported it. It's also why every front office now employs an army of analysts, whose primary purpose is to make the case for and against everyone, so nobody can make a decision or ever be wrong.

In a world where traditional baseball men are being composted in favor of cookie-cutter Ivy Leaguers with the same haircuts and the same idiosyncratically privileged degrees in Latin or art history, no one can settle for a quotidian title like general manager. Organizations must devote entirely too much thought to why their new leader should be called chief baseball officer, which is what the Red Sox settled on four years ago, and which I've resented typing ever since.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/simple-request-red-sox-hiring-171834000.html

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18 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

“It's a reflection of the elitism now saturating the highest levels of baseball. The generation of young executives that believes it's reinventing the game could use a reminder that the truly elite wear the uniform. After all, a kid has a better chance of getting into Harvard than reaching the big leagues.

As the Red Sox seek a fresh start after four largely irrelevant seasons under Bloom, perhaps a return to the basics is in order. Prospects are to be nurtured and protected, but they can also be traded for proven talent. Payroll flexibility is nice, but only if you use it. The big-league club matters at least as much as the farm system.”

…..

Allow me this indulgence, but it's no coincidence the game's bloated titles have proliferated during the rise of the bloodlessly impersonal front office. Numbers matter more than people to such an extent that merely calling them numbers betrays your ignorance, because the correct term is "data."

Everything is a stat, everything can be quantified, and the numbers rule all. It's how the Red Sox could sign a parade of 7.00 ERA pitchers during Bloom's tenure, because the underlying data supported it. It's also why every front office now employs an army of analysts, whose primary purpose is to make the case for and against everyone, so nobody can make a decision or ever be wrong.

In a world where traditional baseball men are being composted in favor of cookie-cutter Ivy Leaguers with the same haircuts and the same idiosyncratically privileged degrees in Latin or art history, no one can settle for a quotidian title like general manager. Organizations must devote entirely too much thought to why their new leader should be called chief baseball officer, which is what the Red Sox settled on four years ago, and which I've resented typing ever since.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/simple-request-red-sox-hiring-171834000.html

Yeah man. This is why the Sox and Rockies have been killing it while senseless nerds like the Astros, Rays and Orioles have been in the basement.

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1 hour ago, bmags said:

Yeah man. This is why the Sox and Rockies have been killing it while senseless nerds like the Astros, Rays and Orioles have been in the basement.

 

1 hour ago, bmags said:

The Red Sox are going to yo yo constantly between this Cherington / Dombrowski yin Yang. Complain and tear each version down, meanwhile both versions are better than sox can throw out.

Red Sox owner tried the Reinsdorf method large but small market approach.  Not really spending money.

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