2024-2025 Front Office, Staff, and Coaching Changes

This seems really odd given that the team has built a Top 5 system (Top 3?).

Does anyone have any insights? Is this unrelated to job performance, ie something nefarious?

Could this be from the "Independent Audit" Breslow had done for the organization? Maybe there's some redundancy? Maybe?

If that's true then I'd be curious what the other guy did to see where he kept his job and the scout that landed Anthony and others did not. 

Interested to hear what Breslow’s compelling reason is for letting go the scout who signed three of the Sox’ biggest draft successes in the last 10 years.

This doesn't address the Sox specific decision to let go the signing scout for Anthony et al, but I came across two separate stories about MLB in general going through a large scale cut back of scouting departments again this year.

BP has a story today with a bunch of tweets about teams letting go of respected scouts. Perhaps most interestingly there is one from the Cubs that they let go a bunch of younger scouts and have decided not to do any pro scouting above the complex leagues. I think it's been pretty widespread that teams have largely stopped pro scouting the high minors, but the Cubs - and perhaps others - are stopping all full season scouting.

Additionally, I listened to the BA Future Projections podcast and they did a segment on scout cutting season. They said that this is the biggest cuts since the Covid season. The BA writers mostly work on the amateur side so whereas the BP story mostly focused on the pro scouting side they were seeing a lot of cuts on the amateur side. One bit of speculation that I thought was interesting is that it might be aligned with decreasing percentage of players drafted out of HS that we've been seeing the last couple of years. If teams believe that the college data sources are good and the HS classes are going to be small, then maybe they don't need so many amateur scouts on the ground.

Per Speier, the Red Sox also did not renew:

-Ralph Treuel (pitching development advisor)
-Walter Miranda (Latin America pitching and rehab coordinator)
-Chris Mears (pitching coordinator)
-Jimmy Gonzalez (FCL Red Sox manager)
-Anthony Turco (pro scout)
-Blair Henry (pro scout)
-Matt Mahoney (pro scout)
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/17/sports/red-sox-scouting/?event=event25

I've long surmised that the consulting firm was engaged to help Breslow get cover to sell Henry on clearing out some folks who've been around for a long time. I don't think this will be the last of it. (Not informed speculation, to be clear.)

I am curious when all is said and done, if this might be the season with the most turnover within the FO in a single season...





Usually turnover is a bad thing, but the opposite is also true (stagnation)

Wasserberger was using thumbnails of code he wrote as headers for his LinkedIn self promotion posts

We're totally going to get caught hacking the robo-umps at some point in the near future.

Yeah. 

I mean unless they look like this, Cora has no real chance: