The General Managers thread

[Just Regular]

Devers for me is basically a guy on at least a Hall of Very Good career, the first act of his career is over, and we'll see if the second act with his next generation supporting cast can challenge Baltimore's peak Adley teams.

Perhaps Tony Perez for a new generation, with of course a move off 3B to 1B coming up at some point, just like Coby Mayo will perhaps experience sometime in 2024 or 2028.

[Just Regular]

This probably won't enhance any Elias-Sig overtures BOS may or may not be considering for November.

 

[Just Regular]

FOX national play by play guy reporting Red Sox expected to hire both a POBO and a GM this offseason.

Says he asked Cora pregame whether he had any interest in one of those roles and the gist of Cora's response was sharp and that "I'm managing".

[Just Regular]

Just read a report Steve Cohen is giving David Stearns $50mm for 5 years.

[SteveA]

Marlins and Kim Ng part ways.  She declined a mutual option in her contract.

[Upper Deck John]

2 hours ago, SteveA said:

Marlins and Kim Ng part ways.  She declined a mutual option in her contract.

Good call for her … now she is a FA

[Just Regular]

This century Chris Young's .255 BABIP yielded is 10 points better than anyone else who has thrown 1000 innings.

Does that Princeton gigantor know something?

.255 BABIP was also the yielded by number for the 2023 Dodgers, and it beat the rest of the league by a hair over 10 points.

Tyler Wells beat all of 2023's 100 innings throwers by 33 points.

[Just Regular]

One day Theo Epstein's credentials to succeed Rob Manfred are going to be as unimpeachable as David Rubenstein's to succeed John Angelos.

Theo Epstein has joined Fenway Sports Group as a senior advisor.

It’s critical to note that Epstein will not be directly in charge of personnel decisions for the Red Sox, but is joining their ownership group — Fenway Sports Group — in an advisory capacity following a two-year stint working for Major League Baseball as a consultant for on-field matters. The longtime front office executive spent nine seasons as the Cubs president of baseball operations from 2011-2020, helping lead the franchise to a World Series title in 2016, after a nine-year stint with the Red Sox as their general manager, in which he was the architect of a pair of World Series champion roster in 2004 and 2007.

[Frobby]

On 2/2/2024 at 11:50 AM, Just Regular said:

One day Theo Epstein's credentials to succeed Rob Manfred are going to be as unimpeachable as David Rubenstein's to succeed John Angelos.

Theo Epstein has joined Fenway Sports Group as a senior advisor.

It’s critical to note that Epstein will not be directly in charge of personnel decisions for the Red Sox, but is joining their ownership group — Fenway Sports Group — in an advisory capacity following a two-year stint working for Major League Baseball as a consultant for on-field matters. The longtime front office executive spent nine seasons as the Cubs president of baseball operations from 2011-2020, helping lead the franchise to a World Series title in 2016, after a nine-year stint with the Red Sox as their general manager, in which he was the architect of a pair of World Series champion roster in 2004 and 2007.

Why doesn’t this bio mention Theo’s most important job, as an intern for the Orioles?

[Just Regular]

5 hours ago, Frobby said:

Why doesn’t this bio mention Theo’s most important job, as an intern for the Orioles?

Rotoworld (I won't call it NBC Sports Edge) has got nothing on Wikipedia.

Check out Wikipedia by the way with the Calvin Hill detail as the Orioles organizations care and handling by Yalies continues to progress:

Epstein attended Yale University, where he lived at Jonathan Edwards College. He served as sports editor of the Yale Daily News. He graduated in 1995 with a degree in American Studies. During his time as an undergraduate, he wrote letters to several teams expressing interest in working for them. His letter to the Baltimore Orioles reached team executive Calvin Hill, a Yale alumnus and head of personnel, who invited him for an interview. Epstein interned for three consecutive summers for the Orioles.^[7] Eventually he was hired as the public relations assistant for the Orioles.

Circa 1995, the Yale office of career planning probably didn't consider that one a Big Win, but its turned out okay in the longer run.

[Just Regular]

With this year's churn, Elias has inched into the Top Half of tenure.

He and Farhan are 14th/15th with 2019 being the first Club belonging to them.

The 13 longer-tenured:

Dinosaurs - NYY Cashman, CLE Antonetti, WSN Rizzo, STL Mozeliak

2015-2016 - TOR Atkins, OAK Forst, SEA Dipoto, LAD Friedman, SDP Preller

2017-2018 - TBR Neander, MIN Falvey, ATL Anthopoulos, ARZ Hazen

Not hard to imagine Blue Jays or Padres heads rolling if things don't go well for those Clubs this year and next.

[Frobby]

“Twenty years after ‘Moneyball,’ baseball’s GM cycle is trending back toward former big leaguers. What’s behind the increasing number of ex-player execs? And what does this shift mean for MLB?”

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2024/2/16/24074641/baseball-general-manager-front-office-former-players-jerry-dipoto-chris-young

This is a really interesting piece   

 

Edited February 26 by Frobby