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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Nov 3, 2023 19:13:43 GMT -5
Who knows how a smart guy like Breslow will fare as CBO? Yale degree, IQ, whatever ...
However, anyone who ever heard Haywood Sullivan open his mouth can attest that dumbness isn't an attribute you want in a baseball ops or CEO/COO position.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jun 26, 2020 20:39:58 GMT -5
Not sure if this belongs here, but Eddie Kasko died this week at age 88. Most of the ink has been spilled about his four-year term as manager, a rather bleak period between the 1967 and 1975 pennants. (The 1972 team, which came within a half game of the AL East title and featured the rookie heroics of Carlton Fisk and the amazing comeback of Luis Tiant, nonetheless didn't get above .500 until July 12 and didn't hit its first home run until May 5th, represented the best year of the Kasko regime.) But moreso than his managing tenure, Kasko had a greater impact as the Red Sox' director of scouting from 1978 through 1992, meaning he had a hand in 15 June amateur drafts. I remember not thinking very highly of his track record--after all, he did draft Marc (Son of Haywood) Sullivan with the RedSox' top pick of 1979--but I do have to salute him for Clemens (1st round, 1983), Oil Can Boyd (16th, 1980), Mike Greenwell (3rd, 1982), John Valentin (5th, 1988), Tim Naehring (8th, 1988), Mo Vaughn (1st, 1989), Jeff Bagwell (4th, 1989), Aaron Sele (1st, 1991), and Scott Hatteberg (1st supplemental, 1991).
They also had a January draft then, which netted them Ellis Burks (1st, 1983) and Curt Schilling (2nd, 1986). And they had secondary phases to the June and January drafts then, too, whereby they picked Marty Barrett (June secondary, 1979).
His predecessor as scouting director was Haywood Sullivan, and his successor in 1993 was Wayne Britton.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jan 8, 2020 13:02:34 GMT -5
The Red Sox (Fenway Sports Management) own the Salem club outright, and the Lowell NYPL franchise is owned by an entrepreneur. I don't know whether that would be plus or minus for a relocation. A lot depends on whether MLB/MiLB might agree to bump up the NYPL to a High-A vs. Low-A full season league with fewer member clubs than the current Short Season A circuit. That would make a move from Greenville and the SAL more likely, which would be too bad because from what I hear the Drive and their ballpark are highly thought of.
But, more to the point, what about player safety, especially pitcher safety? I don't have the numbers at hand, but the number of cold-weather April and May games that Portland and Pawtucket play, along the number of their early-season, weather-related postponements (necessitating summer doubleheaders), might be an issue in making the NYPL a full-season circuit. (It played as a full-season league from its founding through 1966.) The Carolinas do get a lot of rain in the spring, but common sense dictates that the temperatures there are milder than here when we're having a cold/wet spring.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Sept 25, 2019 20:09:21 GMT -5
It's been two weeks. You being serious? I was being mostly serious, but i thought it had been a month or so, so my bad on that !!! But really, DD was hired within a few days of Cherington, wasn't he ? And isn't there a concern that MLB wont let the hire happen during the playoffs. that puts us square early November and right up against the GM meetings, no ?? We got guys leaving left and right, shouldnt there be more a sense of urgency ? I may be misunderstanding everyone here, but the time line for DD and Cherington (and Lucky was this) 1 August 2015: Lucchino announces pending retirement as president/CEO and Sam Kennedy is named president (he was already COO and was not named CEO until 2018). 18 August 2015: Dombrowski is hired to new post of president/baseball operations and Cherington immediately resigns as evp/general manager; the news came out simultaneously and, as far as anyone has said, Cherington quit immediately after DD was installed as his boss. Apologies to all if I am missing the point; it wouldn't be the first time.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jul 18, 2019 16:29:19 GMT -5
It's worth noting that, not only did the Braves become the fifth of the 16 MLB teams (and the third in the National League) to integrate their roster with Sam Jethroe (1950 NL ROTY), they also employed Afro-American or Afro-Latin players George Crowe, Luis Marquez and Buzz Clarkson before they left town in March 1953. Plus, in 1952 alone, they had a rookie infielder on their Class C Eau Claire Bears affiliate named Henry Aaron and other future major leaguers in their organization like Bill Bruton, Ed Charles, Felix Mantilla and Wes Covington.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Mar 24, 2019 11:30:31 GMT -5
that was interesting, ball got caught up on top of scoreboard for a bit. I've been meaning to ask this question since the 2018 postseason: In Game 2 of the ALCS, Bradley's bases-clearing -- and game-winning -- opposite-field double at Fenway took a high bounce into foul territory and rolled along the top of the padding, back towards the infield, and was too high up for Gonzalez, the Houston LF, to field. Kudos to the fans sitting along the left-field line for NOT touching the ball while it was in play, because that would have given the umps a reason to hold Devers, who was on first base, to two bases and cost the Red Sox the lead run. Anyway ... that's the first time I've ever seen that kind of thing happen since they installed the padding. Has anyone here seen that happen before?
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Feb 13, 2019 8:58:48 GMT -5
This appears to be part of an extended audition for the No. 1 job; Castiglione cut back his schedule last year, and prior to switching to television, O'Brien had taken over the lead role on Red Sox radio. Sean McDonough is intriguing if his commitment to ESPN can be managed, his old feud with WEEI/Entercom from the 1510 The Zone days is dead and buried, and if his personality can mesh with a Red Sox ownership that moved him out of the TV role 15-16 years ago. (Part of that might have stemmed from the feud between Will and Lucchino.) I'd be interested to hear if anyone from RI or SE Massachusetts has a read on Will Flemming, who has been doing PawSox games for four years. His brother Dave, a former PawSox PBP voice, has been quite successful doing Giants' games for some time. Mario Impemba has been around for awhile. I remember him from the Angels' booth in the 1990s. Meh. Maybe he'll eventually square off with Lou Merloni, as he did with Rod Allen last year; so there is that to look forward to. Not a Merloni fan at all; it mystifies me why WEEI keeps employing him. And while Tom Caron seems to be a very nice guy and can keep a pre- or postgame show moving along, he's not very good and his voice and delivery are grating. Doesn't have the chops for PBP, whether hockey (the Beanpot) or baseball.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jan 10, 2019 18:06:31 GMT -5
Alex Speier with a summary of Red Sox' minor league coaching and managing lineups for 2019. Link. Major changes (in addition to Billy-McMillon-to-Pawtucket, announced a month ago): Joe Oliver moves up from Salem to Portland as manager. Darren Fenster moves up from Portland to replace McMillon as OF/baserunning coordinator. Corey Wimberly moves up from Lowell to Salem as manager. Luke Montz becomes manager at Lowell. Ryan Jackson (formerly in Cincinnati organization) replaces David Howard as field coordinator. Andy Fox remains infield coordinator but also becomes assistant field coordinator. Ralph Treuel remains a pitching coordinator but as coordinator (logistics), he will share duties with Dave Bush, named pitching performance coordinator, who will focus on an analytics-driven approach. Shawn Haviland will assist Bush as pitching performance coach. EDIT: Adding the official news release from the Red Sox.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Dec 13, 2018 9:13:00 GMT -5
I'm glad he's in the National League; Dodgers are at Fenway July 12-14 and I hope he gets his standing O. That said, I hope the Sox catch him when he's having trouble commanding his breaking stuff.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Dec 13, 2018 8:30:43 GMT -5
Peter Abraham reports today that Kevin Boles has landed with the Mets' organization as manager of Double-A Binghamton, the "Rumble Ponies." So, he steps down one classification but moves to an organization in transition where conceivably he could join the MLB staff in 2020.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Dec 4, 2018 14:18:14 GMT -5
Globe reported today that Boles' successor at Pawtucket has been signed but Dombrowski won't disclose who it is. Probably waiting for the annual "Red Sox announce minor league field staff" news release later this month or in January. Cafardo was promoting Billy McMillon (ex-Portland Sea Dog skipper, lately the roving OF and base running coordinator) for the job. Speaking of coordinators, the organizational field coordinator post, as noted above, also is vacant.
Tough year for former Red Sox coaches/Triple-A skippers. In addition to Beyeler, Ron Johnson was fired by the Orioles after seven years as manager of the Norfolk Tides.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Sept 9, 2018 8:12:05 GMT -5
Pete Abraham reports today (9/9) that Kevin Boles has resigned as manager of the PawSox after five full seasons and one Governors' Cup (2014). He's looking to join a major league staff in some capacity. Dombrowski was quoted as saying he would have invited Boles back to McCoy for 2019 if he hadn't resigned. DD worked closely with Boles' father, John, with the White Sox, Expos and Marlins -- in the latter two places elevating Boles Sr. to farm director and, in Miami, manager. But Kevin joined the Red Sox almost eight years before Dombrowski came here in 2015, and climbed the ladder from Greenville to Salem to Portland to Pawtucket. In an unrelated note, Cafardo reports that Arnie Beyeler (who won the 2012 Governors' Cup at Pawtucket) has been fired by the Marlins as manager of Triple-A New Orleans after three seasons, and that the New Orleans franchise is moving to a new stadium in Wichita. EDIT: Checking the news feed, it seems that Chris Hatfield had the news before The Globe (or me). Anyway, for the record here it is. UPDATES ON TWO: As mentioned down thread, Boles went to the Mets as manager of Double-A Binghamton. Today (Sunday, 13 January 2019), Cafardo reports that Arnie Beyeler, fired by the Marlins, will be back in MLB as first base/outfield coach of the 2019 Orioles under Brandon Hyde. Orioles have not made anything official yet. Of course, who needs a coaching staff and minor league staff when spring training is only four weeks away? What's the rush? Next season might be nightmarish but, if he sticks it out, it will be Beyeler's fourth season in the majors, fully vesting him for the pension.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Sept 4, 2018 12:05:28 GMT -5
Per Nick Cafardo's Updates on Nine (9/2/2018), the Red Sox have dismissed David Howard as field coordinator of minor league instruction, a position he has held since 2010. A successor has yet to be named.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Aug 17, 2018 17:53:24 GMT -5
Will there be a lower classification team in McCoy Stadium in 2021? Maybe, but not a Red Sox affiliate, as they are committed to Portland and Lowell, and own Salem outright. (The Carolina League would never come this far north -- and neither would the Sally League.)
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jul 4, 2018 18:15:04 GMT -5
The next time Buckley or Shaughnessy try to say this team is "unlikeable," please post this again.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Apr 20, 2018 13:00:16 GMT -5
The '77 series against the Yankees that they mentioned was legendary. The wind was blowing out at Fenway, back before they raised the stands behind home plate and changed the wind patterns. The one-year park factor that year was 118. They won 9-4, 10-4, and 11-1. They hit 6 homers in game 1 (Fisk 2, Yaz, Lynn, Scott, Burleson), 5 in game 2 (Yaz and Carbo 2 each, Scott), and 5 in game 3 (Yaz, Rice, Scott, Carbo, Doyle). It was the weekend of my 5th prep school reunion and the first I heard of it was driving home and listening to game 3 on the radio. Very late to this, but the Saturday afternoon game of that series, telecast nationally on NBC's Game of the Week, was the one where Billy Martin yanked (no pun intended ... or maybe there was) Reggie Jackson out of right field in the middle of an inning for lack of hustle. Then the two of them had to be pulled apart in the Yankee dugout. It was a euphoric weekend for Red Sox fans. Unfortunately, the following weekend in the Bronx the Yankees turned the tables and swept them.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Mar 15, 2018 20:43:34 GMT -5
John Farrell joins the Cincinnati Reds as a special assignments scout. Not a bad place for Farrell to land, especially with Bryan Price on the last year of his managerial contract, with no apparent safety net. Farrell may end up back in a big-league dugout by July. Baseball is still such an insular world in so many ways. Farrell wore out his welcome in Toronto, but the Red Sox hired him anyway. Then the Red Sox loved him so much that they ditched him in the wake of consecutive division championships. A few months later, he's got another job and may well be back in his old position shortly. It's a real problem for any institution or industry when the same mediocrities just keep getting jobs regardless of past failures. Fans of every team hate their manager, and most of them are right. That's what happens when baseball culture decides that only 45 people in the entire world are worth considering for these positions. True. Then again, the Reds under Castellini and [the other] Dick Williams are not the best-run organization in MLB. In fact, our own Dick Williams, dead for seven years, might still have more on the ball than Cincy's GM, who qualified for the job because his grandfather and father (and great-uncle and uncle) are wealthy Cincinnatians who own a piece of the club.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Mar 15, 2018 11:21:01 GMT -5
John Farrell joins the Cincinnati Reds as a special assignments scout. Not a bad place for Farrell to land, especially with Bryan Price on the last year of his managerial contract, with no apparent safety net. Farrell may end up back in a big-league dugout by July.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Feb 22, 2018 19:38:55 GMT -5
Contract breakdown: evandrellich · 1h J.D. Martinez contract breakdown. Year 1: $23.75 m Year 2: $23.75 m Buyout if he opts out after Year 2: $2.5 million, bringing total to $50 m if he leaves Year 3: $23.75 m (No buyout if opts out after Y3) Year 4: $19.35 m Year 5: $19.35 m JD will wear #28 which Cora had. Unknown what # Cora will switch toCora is taking #20, which had been worn by bench coach Ron Roenicke. Humorously, Roenicke had just taken #20 because Eduardo Nuñez asked for the #10 Roenicke had initially been assigned. So Roenicke's going to wear his third number in less than ten days when he decides which jersey he'll take. Lowest available numbers are 25, 30 and 54. (The Red Sox have, curiously, kept #25 in mothballs so far this year; could Steve Buckley's crusade to retire Tony C's jersey finally succeed?)
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Feb 15, 2018 17:07:41 GMT -5
The Beckett-Lowell deal happened during the brief interregnum at the 2005 Winter Meetings. Epstein had resigned and Bill Lajoie and Larry Lucchino were the senior guys of the Red Sox delegation, with Ben Cherington and Jed Hoyer the co-general managers.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Feb 13, 2018 15:58:27 GMT -5
Agree that Theo Epstein is #1 in terms of the best GM the Sox have had, and with the sentiment that he should have been given the autonomy, title and money to stay here indefinitely well before 2011. Two wild cards: (1) I wonder if, in addition to Lucchino, Epstein was chafing at the input of Tom Werner, a much larger fish in the Sox' ownership pond than Lucky Larry, albeit with a smaller profile. But with his show-biz cred and his (apparent) oversight of NESN, Werner easily could have been pressing hard for marquee players to be signed to reverse the decline in the Sox' TV rankings ca. 2009-10. In addition, as a former Southern Californian who remembers Werner's disastrous turn as majority owner of the San Diego Padres in the early 1990s--Rosanne's national anthem was only one of the many blunders that happened on his watch--I would not find it hard to imagine Werner as a huge ego who overestimates his baseball smarts and a massive thorn in Epstein's side, at least on the Lucchino scale. (2) Off the field, a Boston woman was apparently stalking Epstein and his young family ( link) during his tenure with the Red Sox; she even followed him to Chicago, where she was arrested when she showed up at Epstein's house in 2012. Bizarre and downright frightening stuff like this easily could have convinced Epstein and his wife that they needed to get the hell out of the fishbowl, no matter how John Henry managed to sweeten his deal here.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Feb 6, 2018 16:15:26 GMT -5
I'm going to rewind a little bit to the late 1950s to try to understand how Dick O'Connell came to power in 1965, assumed full control of baseball operations in the 1966-67 time frame, and then ultimately was unseated in 1977 when Jean Yawkey decided to sell the team to Haywood Sullivan. First of all, from today's perspective, the Red Sox of the late 1950s were in disarray as an organization. After early successes, especially in acquiring talent from the St. Louis Browns, Joe Cronin had presided over the inexorable decay of the team throughout the decade. By 1958, Ted Williams was 40 years old, Jimmy Piersall was slowing down, and Jackie Jensen, while still in his prime, was in his early 30s and a liability because the coming age of air travel was going to drive him from the game. Frank Malzone was an outstanding third baseman; like Boggs, he was a late bloomer who spent his first real year in MLB at age 27. The rest of the Boston infield (Buddin, Runnels, Wertz/Gernert) was patchwork. Sammy White was a top-flight catcher, but he was also heading into his 30s and his productive years were behind him. The positional depth was abysmal, especially in terms of young players from the minors. The pitching staff was consistently mediocre - Frank Sullivan, Tom Brewer, Ike Delock, Willard Nixon, surrounded by cast-offs from other clubs. Bill Monbouquette arrived in 1958, and Earl Wilson in 1959, and they were the only good young arms coming out of the minor league system. Then, of course, we have the race issue. Wilson, of course, might well have supplanted Pumpsie Green as the Red Sox' first African-American player in 1959, but was on military reserve duty for the Minneapolis Millers at the time. There's no need to hijack this thread -- we've all read millions of words about the Red Sox and integration -- but let it just be said that they had an almost complete absence of nonwhite talent in their minor league system throughout the 1950s; I just scanned their 1958 affiliates in B-Ref, and found two nonwhite past or future MLB players (Green and Jose Valdivielso, a journeyman shortstop who played for Washington) among their six affiliates. It must have been obvious, even to someone as loyal as Tom Yawkey, that Cronin needed to be replaced. So when the 70-year-old American League president, Will Harridge, retired in January 1959, Yawkey pulled the strings needed to get Cronin elected as the league's chief executive. However, having given Cronin a safe landing into a higher-profile job, Yawkey needed to find someone to replace him. So for some reason, he turned to the 62-year-old Bucky Harris, the old "boy wonder" skipper of 1924 fame then working as Cronin's top assistant, and made him the new general manager. Harris had managed in MLB for 30 years but had never been a big-league GM. With the team suddenly in rapid decline in 1959, Harris made a number of trades for marginal players, replaced Pinky Higgins with Billy Jurges as Sox manager in July 1959 (supposedly without Yawkey's permission), and broke the Sox' color barrier by promoting Green in July. His high-profile trades (trading White, who retired rather than play for Cleveland, and dealing away bonus baby Frank Baumann, who led the AL in ERA in 1960 with the White Sox) blew up in his face. Significantly, Yawkey bypassed the team's farm and scouting director, Johnny Murphy, the old Yankee relief ace, for the GM vacancy. Murphy had been in his job about the same amount of time as Cronin was in his, since 1948, and he certainly had not set the world on fire either. (In fairness, and as a footnote, Murphy was the farm/scouting director in 1959 when Carl Yastrzemski was signed by Bots Nekola to his first Red Sox contract, so credit must be given there.) By 1960, Ted Williams was in his last season. The team went 65-89 and finished ahead of only the atrocious Kansas City A's. Yastrzemski was in Triple-A at Minneapolis; he was the only bright light on the horizon. Jensen, 33, had retired because of his phobia about flying. Harris' hand-picked manager, Jurges, was self-destructing because of nerves. Pinky Higgins, lurking in the wings as a "special assistant" to Yawkey, reclaimed the managerial job in June when Jurges was fired -- and surely the handwriting was on the wall for the overmatched Harris as well. The owner was 57 and at the helm of a rudderless ship. I've looked through the Globe archives and there were multiple articles from 1960 speculating that Williams would become manager, Higgins would become general manager, etc. The Sox were supposedly trying to get Ralph Houk (a coach then for Stengel) or Yogi Berra (coming to the end of the line as a player) from the Yankees to take over the managerial job. Just an ungodly mess. So in late September, a day or so after Williams' final game, Yawkey fired Harris and Johnny Murphy. Williams became an executive assistant to Yawkey. Dick O'Connell, who had come up through the Red Sox front office on the business side and held the title of business manager by 1958, was made executive vice president. Higgins was given a new three-year contract as field manager and given authority over all playing personnel, major and minor league, in the Boston organization. Neil Mahoney, perhaps the unsung hero in the 1967-and-beyond revival of the Red Sox, was appointed to Murphy's old job as farm and scouting director. Per the Red Sox media guide, the position of general manager was abolished, although it appeared to be shared between O'Connell (business) and Higgins (baseball). Two years later, after the 1962 season, Higgins quit as manager and became full-time GM. He and O'Connell, still in charge of business affairs, shared the same title of EVP and (one assumes) each reported to Yawkey. That structure was in place through 1965, when Higgins, finally, was fired on September 16. Higgins' firing made O'Connell the unquestioned boss of the Red Sox, reporting to Yawkey, and the team began a search for a "director of player personnel" to function under O'Connell as his top baseball operations executive. The Globe archives from the autumn of 1965 include a number of candidates, like Danny Murtaugh, Sam Mele (manager of the AL champion Twins), Grady Hatton and Eddie Lopat. But the job went to the 34-year-old rookie manager of the Athletics, former Sox catcher Haywood Sullivan. Sullivan soon created his own pipeline to Tom and Jean Yawkey, with whom he became exceptionally close. He also was widely liked by the Boston press. Nevertheless, O'Connell slowly broadened his authority within baseball operations, especially during 1967 with his hiring of Dick Williams and his acquisitions of Adair, Bell and Howard. It's unclear what Sullivan's diminished role in the early 1970s was, except perhaps as O'Connell's special assistant. Then, after Mahoney died in May 1973, O'Connell moved Sullivan into the scouting director role. I think it's interesting to note that, while O'Connell held the title of executive vice president and general manager from 1965-77 he was responsible for both the baseball and business operations of the team -- more of a chief operating officer working directly under Tom Yawkey. I recall that O'Connell himself was not simply involved in player transactions, hiring managers and coaches, etc., but also in areas like the awarding of the Red Sox' television rights to WSBK-TV in 1975. O'Connell did begin to hire assistants on the business side in the 1970s -- John Donovan, John Harrington, John Alevizos, and finally Gene Kirby -- presumably to take some of the administrative load off his plate while he focused on baseball operations. Then, after the 1975 World Series, O'Connell made a significant move in baseball operations when he hired John Claiborne as assistant general manager and his official #2 guy. This may have confirmed to Sullivan that, apart from being scouting director, his path to promotion and resumption of power had been blocked. Tom Yawkey's death in July 1976 and Jean Yawkey's inheritance of the team changed the entire dynamic. She and O'Connell did not get along. Sullivan may have had her ear and she was highly critical of how the team was operated. Surprisingly, she waited until October 1977 before firing O'Connell (Kirby and Claiborne), and handing the team over to Sullivan and Buddy LeRoux. When the American League rejected the sale as it was initially constituted (without her part ownership), she joined Sullivan and LeRoux' group herself. The team began to decline after 1978, endured multiple PR disasters, and finally found itself torn apart by the Coup LeRoux ownership squabble. (Which O'Connell found himself embroiled in, as noted above. It's interesting that his departure was so bitter in 1977, he refused to set foot inside Fenway Park until the day of the coup.) Dick O'Connell's Wikipedia bio.
Haywood Sullivan's Wikipedia bio.
Pinky Higgins'.
Buddy LeRoux'.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Jan 10, 2018 17:19:38 GMT -5
Will be a sad day when Kotchman retires. I wonder if he's still with us because of how short the GCL season is and if he's already partially retired to Florida? Jeez, scratch that. He's only 63. I figured since he coached for 38 years he'd be older. Kotchman is also the Florida crosschecker on the amateur scouting staff. Nice article about him from SI a few years ago: Tom Kotchman is the Hardest Working Man in Baseball.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Dec 29, 2017 13:57:02 GMT -5
Who in hell is Al Luplow? He was an outfielder for the Indians who made probably the most spectacular catch of the 1960s at Fenway Park, off Dick Williams, to rob Williams of a three-run pinch-hit home run on June 27, 1963. All the details are in this mid-1980s retrospective from Sports Illustrated. As a little kid obsessed with baseball, I remember reading and hearing about the catch, but I was (happily) at the beach and not glued to the radio for the live call. And in thwarting Williams, Luplow kept the Sox from sweeping a five-game series with Cleveland, but provided perhaps the singular highlight of Williams' two-year tour as a spare outfielder and first baseman with the Red Sox. He was released by Boston after the 1964 season, signed as a player-coach with the Sox' Seattle affiliate then almost immediately became manager of the 1965 Toronto Maple Leafs through a series of fortunate coincidences and two years later was back with the Red Sox as their manager and created the biggest highlight of his Boston tenure. Obit.
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Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Nov 8, 2017 19:25:45 GMT -5
I wonder if Chad Epperson will get the bullpen coach's job. He's been in their minor league organization for some years as a Class A manager and then as catching coordinator. If not him, then either Mani Martinez or Mike Brenly, who were bullpen catchers last year.
LeVangie is the third ex-catcher to be Red Sox pitching coach since The Impossible Dream, following Darrell Johnson (1968-69) and Mike Roarke (1994). Dave Duncan, of course, is the most famous catcher-turned-pitching-coach of recent years.
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