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2014-15 off-season, off-field personnel thread
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jan 8, 2015 14:25:24 GMT -5
The Red Sox actually announced all of the staffs. We'll have something up here soon. Great. It's not surprising that after such a successful 2014, the managers (including Febles in Salem and Kotchman in the GCL) were all retained. I wondered if another organization would try to hire McMillon away for a Triple-A gig, or another type of promotion.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jan 8, 2015 14:42:18 GMT -5
Given his success in Portland, Salem, and Greenville, and his familiarity with many of the emerging crop of players from the minor league system, I'd hope the Sox would continue to move him up the ladder. It's only been seven years, but he's taken teams to the playoffs at every level he's managed.
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Post by moonstone2 on Jan 8, 2015 15:24:23 GMT -5
A 401K shifts risk from the employer to the employee. It's just another example how middle class workers in the U.S. continue to get screwed.
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Post by joshv02 on Jan 8, 2015 21:27:40 GMT -5
On if the benefit is guaranteed from bankruptcy; otherwise, ee and er both had risk in defined benefit systems. The risk was just more hidden.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jan 8, 2015 21:45:26 GMT -5
Here's the complete list: Here are the Red Sox' minor league staff appointments: Pawtucket (Triple-A): Kevin Boles, manager; Gedman, hitting coach; Bob Kipper, pitching coach; Bruce Crabbe, coach; Jon Jochim, athletic trainer. Portland (Double-A): Billy McMillon, manager; Joppie, hitting coach; Kevin Walker, pitching coach; Brandon Henry, athletic trainer. Salem (high-A): Carlos Febles, manager; Jon Nunnally, hitting coach; Paul Abbott, pitching coach; David Herrera, athletic trainer. Greenville (low-A): Darren Fenster, manager; Nelson Paulino, hitting coach; Walter Miranda, pitching coach; Satoshi Kajiyama, athletic trainer. Lowell (short-A): Joe Oliver, manager; Iggy Suarez, hitting coach; Lance Carter, pitching coach; Nick Faciana, athletic trainer. GCL Red Sox (rookie): Tom Kotchman, manager; Junior Zamora, hitting coach; Goose Gregson, pitching coach; Dave Tomlin, coach; Mauricio Elizondo, athletic trainer; Edgar Barreto, strength and conditioning coach. DSL Red Sox (rookie): Jose Zapata, manager; Wilton Veras, hitting coach; Randor Bierd, pitching coach; Oscar Lira, pitching coach; Aly Gonzalez, coach; Guillermo Hinojosa, athletic trainer; Antonio Diaz, strength and conditioning coordinator; Claudio Sanchez, coaching assistant. www.bostonherald.com/sports/red_sox_mlb/clubhouse_insider/2015/01/red_sox_promote_rich_gedman_to_triple_a_hitting_coach
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jan 9, 2015 8:50:17 GMT -5
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jan 10, 2015 8:52:11 GMT -5
Royals' minor league staff announcement yesterday includes a few Red Sox alumni/former staff members. All of them had Royal roots, however.
Missourian Al Nipper named pitching coach of the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers. He was let go by the Tigers after two years as minor league pitching coordinator and one season as pitching coach at Toledo. Nipper was the Royals' MLB pitching coach under Tony Muser in 2001-02.
Also, Jeff Suppan named pitching coach at Rookie-level Idaho Falls, as he comes back to the organization where he became a big league fixture. Returning are 84-year-old senior pitching consultant Bill Fischer and special assistant John Wathan. Fischer's time with the Royals goes all the way back to 1968 when he joined them as a scout (and minor league pitching instructor) before they even played an MLB game. He spent seven full years (under McNamara and Morgan) with the Red Sox as MLB pitching coach, which is probably a record.
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Post by moonstone2 on Jan 10, 2015 10:19:03 GMT -5
Excellent article! I had thought I recognized the name of his son in law. In fact, he was originally drafted by the Red Sox.
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Post by soxfanatic on Jan 13, 2015 4:51:38 GMT -5
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jan 13, 2015 8:48:31 GMT -5
Another alumni note: The Dodgers re-appoint Bill Haselman as manager of the Low-A Great Lakes Loons (Midland, MI), Haselman's second straight season there. He went 66-73 in 2014. A few off-seasons ago, Cafardo was buzzing about Haselman returning to the Red Sox system in some capacity, but that never materialized. His last association here was as MLB first-base coach (2006). milb.com
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Post by pedroelgrande on Jan 13, 2015 15:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jan 13, 2015 15:22:39 GMT -5
A 401K shifts risk from the employer to the employee. It's just another example how middle class workers in the U.S. continue to get screwed. Just so we're clear, this offloads the responsibility for investing in retirement for employees from corporations to taxpayers. How? We just had a shining example with the mortgage/derivative fiasco. When those investments went south, as they were destined to do given the trash they were filled with, investment funds collapsed to the tune of a 20%-30% drop in their value. Those are the funds that IRA's have most of their money in. Those funds might have continued cratering, right to the center of the earth, were it not for the Treasury and the Fed stepping in to save the so-called capitalists from their own greed and stupidity. That re-floating of the financial sector comes courtesy of all of us, either through additional taxes, a busted-out economy that takes years to recover, and the fees the banks pay the Fed for wet-nursing them, also derived from the public at large. And that's before we talk about so-called quantitative easing. That's a fancy name for the Fed printing money to buy up all those junk-laden derivatives, as well as forking out money to the counter-parties - the casino gambles who bet against the idiots and cleaned up. All the endless bleating about moral hazard flies right out the window when the suits are involved. It goes on, and on, and on. It's entirely possible to imagine 401(k)'s as being useful instruments for building retirement funds. But as long as the wolves on Wall Street are managing the bulk of those funds, we can expect the same sort of periodic collapse, even as their take of bonuses and commissions puts them all on easy street.
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Post by pedroelgrande on Jan 13, 2015 15:26:45 GMT -5
After going through the press release here are some of the hires that stick out to me:
They also hired a couple more International scouts. Promoted Kotchman to Florida crosschecker, aside from his GCL duties.
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Post by joshv02 on Jan 13, 2015 15:34:20 GMT -5
It's entirely possible to imagine 401(k)'s as being useful instruments for building retirement funds. But as long as the wolves on Wall Street are managing the bulk of those funds, we can expect the same sort of periodic collapse, even as their take of bonuses and commissions puts them all on easy street. Response in OT forum.
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Post by justabitoutside on Jan 13, 2015 15:40:20 GMT -5
Just curious if Chad Epperson is still an instructor/ rover through the system. Haven't heard his name in a few years, not sure if he had anything to do with the recent Vasquez-Swihart-Butler corp.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 13, 2015 16:09:35 GMT -5
Just curious if Chad Epperson is still an instructor/ rover through the system. Haven't heard his name in a few years, not sure if he had anything to do with the recent Vasquez-Swihart-Butler corp. He is the catching coordinator still, yes. Apparently Swihart has worked with him this offseason.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 13, 2015 16:10:33 GMT -5
After going through the press release here are some of the hires that stick out to me: They also hired a couple more International scouts. Promoted Kotchman to Florida crosschecker, aside from his GCL duties. Just so nobody gets confused, Kotchman was already a scout in Florida. It's possible that it's just a pay promotion rather than a responsibility promotion.
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Post by pedroelgrande on Jan 13, 2015 16:20:08 GMT -5
A crosschecker is higher in the food chain than an area scout if you will so yeah it likely means he is getting a raise as well. Florida is big enough in Baseball talent to warrant a crosschecker, I believe some teams already do this.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 13, 2015 16:50:02 GMT -5
A crosschecker is higher in the food chain than an area scout if you will so yeah it likely means he is getting a raise as well. Florida is big enough in Baseball talent to warrant a crosschecker, I believe some teams already do this. Oh yeah, I know the difference. I guess I meant I thought he might have been doing something like that already. Pure conjecture though. Seems weird for your GCL manager to also be a field scout in the truest sense of that gig.
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Post by pedroelgrande on Jan 13, 2015 17:07:44 GMT -5
Oh yeah it could definitely be. I don't know much about what goes on in XST so maybe he wasn't as involve with that and concentrated more on scouting.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jan 13, 2015 18:38:07 GMT -5
A crosschecker is higher in the food chain than an area scout if you will so yeah it likely means he is getting a raise as well. Florida is big enough in Baseball talent to warrant a crosschecker, I believe some teams already do this. Oh yeah, I know the difference. I guess I meant I thought he might have been doing something like that already. Pure conjecture though. Seems weird for your GCL manager to also be a field scout in the truest sense of that gig. Wouldn't most of the crosschecker duties be in the run-up to the draft, i.e. before the GCL season?
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Post by moonstone2 on Jan 13, 2015 20:11:11 GMT -5
A crosschecker is higher in the food chain than an area scout if you will so yeah it likely means he is getting a raise as well. Florida is big enough in Baseball talent to warrant a crosschecker, I believe some teams already do this. Oh yeah, I know the difference. I guess I meant I thought he might have been doing something like that already. Pure conjecture though. Seems weird for your GCL manager to also be a field scout in the truest sense of that gig. It is...but Kotchman had a special arrangement for years with the Angels so he was able to do this. He does it this way so he can spend more time with his family who live in Florida. Angels GM Jerry Dipoto didn't like this arrangement so they let him go. The Red Sox outbid several teams for his services. As for the promotion Kotchman kinda acts as his own crosschecker. Because of his well deserved reputation, he's in the scouts hall of fame, the Red Sox take his evaluations at face value and don't question them. I would imagine they might let him hire a part time scout in Florida so they can get to see as many guys as possible in one of the most baseball rich areas of the country. So Hattfield here's your chance...sunny Florida awaits...and Tom is waiting for your resume
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 13, 2015 21:30:38 GMT -5
Loans are the only thing keeping me away brother, trust me. Well that and the lack of a scouting eye. Maybe I can pay Cundall or Chaz double what they get paid now to come ghost scout for me? Anyway, kidding aside, that all makes sense. Ideally, your GCL manager is working in extended all spring, but given the well-established staff they have down there, I could see someone like Goose Gregson or Dave Tomlin who's been around forever (this really put into perspective for the latter when Dan Duquette caught a Sox-O's GCL game I was at and went to say hi to Tomlin, because he was the GM when Tomlin joined the organization) running the show when Kotchman isn't there.
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Post by moonstone2 on Jan 13, 2015 23:08:33 GMT -5
Actually if they do hire a part time scout to work under Tom.....what a great job for someone to break into the industry. You'll be paid peanuts and you better like going to the bathroom in weird places, but you don't often get to work for someone like that.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 13, 2015 23:28:41 GMT -5
Actually if they do hire a part time scout to work under Tom.....what a great job for someone to break into the industry. You'll be paid peanuts and you better like going to the bathroom in weird places, but you don't often get to work for someone like that. Actually, scouts will often have guys who bird dog for them for free to get experience and a reference when they do apply for jobs. Friend of mine who got a job with Houston did this for a Yankees scout for a year or two when he got out of coaching.
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