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Originally Posted by Fansy the Famous Bard
I think the organization is so far away from being competitive that the evaluation of JJ needs to be more transactional. Is he making moves that puts the organization in a better position for the future? At this point I think there just seems to be a lot of negativity surrounding everything, and the lazy approach is to just look at ML. If they are reworking philosophies and instructional procedures throughout the org, that takes time. But we as fans have limited visibility into that because the rewards of such changes will never be immediate, and ultimately you can\will see dips in productivity at the MiLB levels if the changes are massive (which are needed). We are seeing the minors taking a step back this year.... the HOPE is that this is due to organizational philosophy changes.
What a lot of us were hoping was these "changes" would be of the personnel type so we would KNOW 100% a philosophy and approach overhaul was occurring. That isn't happening and we're hearing some of the same "GM Philosophy speak" from JJ that we heard from Dayton. Which gives the impression that we're just ****ed.
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This is 1 of 2 things...
JJ literally has no idea what he's doing and is nothing more than a Dayton Moore puppet as he says a whole lot of the same type of stuff...
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Dumping salary and acquiring "major league ready talent" is an edict from John Sherman. JJ has been told this team is not adding payroll and if anything needs to cut payroll while improving. So you have a GM who has his hands tied by ownership because hey if you are Sherman "An A ball lottery ticket doesn't get me my new stadium"
Could be either or hey maybe it's both, the fact that that entire front office is the same save for 1 guy tells me alot of about Shermans desire to spend money.