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re: tOfficial DAT Offseason Thread
Posted on 10/19/26 at 8:12 pm to Translator
Posted on 10/19/26 at 8:12 pm to Translator
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With Espada out, looks like the Yanks aren't shitcanning Boone so luckily he won't be in an Astros uni next season
There are not many things that would lead me to not be an Astros fan any longer after about 45 years....but hiring Boone would have definitely been one of those things.
Posted on 10/19/26 at 8:28 pm to LSUGrad9295
It iterally does not matter who they hire as Manager.
Posted on 10/19/26 at 8:52 pm to Tiger Ryno
Yep, much bigger problems than that
Posted on 10/20/26 at 10:15 am to Translator
Posted on 10/20/26 at 10:18 am to DalenSA
If he’s given autonomy to do what he wants, yes please
Posted on 10/20/26 at 10:20 am to Translator
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Boob Nightengale so grain of salt.
One thing I think is still missing is to hire a President of baseball ops. That is essentially Crane and Bagwell right now. Which sucks. I'd like to see Crane step back and hand that off to a qualified person. Let his role be, this is what I'm willing to spend, this is the timeline I want to see results, go develop a plan within those parameters. PBOP puts together a strategy and a GM executes on it. A cohesive/visioned/aligned operation.
As it is, we've got this rudderless disjointed mess thst doesn't make any sense.
Posted on 10/20/26 at 10:31 am to Lsuhoohoo
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One thing I think is still missing is to hire a President of baseball ops
You mean he fired his son?
What he did with Reid, then Nolan was the beginning of the end. There was no need to fire Luhnow, he just used that as an excuse.
It was always about the money, and the people poured in as long as they could, even longer than they should have, IMO
I've complained incessantly in this forum about it, to the wonderment of some. Well, good morning DAT
Don't be late booking your wknd series for '27, and please get in line for the Shiner Bocks
Posted on 10/20/26 at 10:37 am to wahoocs
Crane’s son/Reid Ryan have been over the business side, not the baseball side.
With a lot of these teams I think the president of baseball ops is just a title. Some don’t even have a GM underneath them (Baltimore just hired one and I think Elias has had the president title for a few years). Milwaukee, where Kleine is, has one guy filling both titles. They can hire one and still have Crane and Bagwell pulling the strings behind the scenes, it doesn’t necessarily change anything.
Kleine is a lot like Click in that he has come up through a very successful small market club to be the second in command. I will take that and we will have to hope they can remain more hands off with him
With a lot of these teams I think the president of baseball ops is just a title. Some don’t even have a GM underneath them (Baltimore just hired one and I think Elias has had the president title for a few years). Milwaukee, where Kleine is, has one guy filling both titles. They can hire one and still have Crane and Bagwell pulling the strings behind the scenes, it doesn’t necessarily change anything.
Kleine is a lot like Click in that he has come up through a very successful small market club to be the second in command. I will take that and we will have to hope they can remain more hands off with him
Posted on 10/20/26 at 10:52 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
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Kleine is a lot like Click in that he has come up through a very successful small market club to be the second in command. I will take that and we will have to hope they can remain more hands off with him
Well, I value you and Jwho's opinion on these matters.
I bought into Luhnow much sooner than some of my back of the baseball card old school buddies did, and I was reluctant to accept that Crane would follow through when the time came to make the Verlander move.
He proved me wrong. I am forever in his debt as a lifelong diehard. Hope he now sees the error of his post-success ego-driven mistakes.
Posted on 10/20/26 at 11:00 am to wahoocs
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You mean he fired his son?
Jared is Astros president which is a business operation. President of baseball ops is a title Luhnow had before he was let go. Some teams call it Chief Baseball officer.
My desire in that is the emphasis on baseball operations. Someone who's job it is to specifically, from a professional baseball background and skillet, develop an operational plan/vision and then have a GM who can execute that. Bagwells "back of the baseball card" strategy isn't a guidance plan but that's where we seem to be.
We've gone through 2 GMs now who apparently operated at odds with what Crane and Bagwell wanted to see. They canned Click and his nerdy bullshite after a world series to install a baseball guy. Old school scouting background. And ultimately he too apparently had his legs cut out from under him by those with a line straight to Crane/Bagwell. This whole thing is a mess.
Posted on 10/20/26 at 2:25 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Dark Times at Daiken.
Posted on 10/20/26 at 4:19 pm to Lsuhoohoo
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Worked at Driveline so sounds like a nerd, and the Yankees are a stuff machine. Good start.
Posted on 10/20/26 at 4:45 pm to TigerFan91
Posted on 10/20/26 at 4:47 pm to TigerFan91
Posted on 10/20/26 at 4:52 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Posted on 10/20/26 at 5:13 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Like the hire but it does not make sense to make a hire like this without a GM... Unless he has one and it hasnt been officially announced due to the incoming GMs current team being in the WS
Posted on 10/20/26 at 5:57 pm to Tiger Ryno
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Like the hire but it does not make sense to make a hire like this without a GM... Unless he has one and it hasnt been officially announced due to the incoming GMs current team being in the WS
It's fine. There's going to be no 2027. We have all the time we need.
Posted on 10/20/26 at 6:05 pm to Jwho77
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we have all the time we need
Print the baseball cards
Posted on 10/20/26 at 7:37 pm to Jwho77
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Like the hire but it does not make sense to make a hire like this without a GM... Unless he has one and it hasnt been officially announced due to the incoming GMs current team being in the WS
It's fine. There's going to be no 2027. We have all the time we need.
Looks like a total professional who does his homework and keeps up with the times. How can anyone look at this dude and think he doesn't know what a good baseball player looks like in 2026?
This post was edited on 10/20/26 at 7:38 pm
Posted on 10/20/26 at 8:33 pm to Domeskeller
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