Podcast: All about accountability
The Rundown:
The Chicago White Sox losing streak extends to five games as they were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays. Manager Rick Renteria is trying to hold his players accountable for their performance, but who keeps him and the coaching staff, like Don Cooper, accountable?
Also, is the play of Tim Anderson, Yoan Moncada, and Eloy Jimenez enough to keep your attention for all of 2019?
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Good stuff, Josh and Jim. The discussion about the development of Glasnow compared to Alec Hansen really struck a chord with me. I still feel like Hansen has the potential to become a really valuable pitcher and my confidence in the org’s ability to help him reach that potential is low and dropping fast. Count me in as a vote that Cooper needs to go and we need to overhaul our pitching development.
It’s the lack of accountability that is most galling. It’s as if Reinsdorf believes that winning comes down to luck. Profit/Loss though can be controlled.
I don’t think Reinsdorf even worries about winning at this point. I have a hunch he doesn’t care one way or the other as long as he hits his desired profitability.
It makes me wonder how Jerry was successful in business (assuming he was. He could have inherited everything as far as I know).
Per Wikipedia:
I didn’t know that. And I’m still not sure if I really know it now.
You buy a property and lease it back to the seller. Seller retains full use of the property as a tenant. Buyer gets a tax write-off, collateral/equity for a loan, and pays off the debt with the lease payments. Tax advantages changed in the 80s.
And yet an investment I made that was a 100% loss is somehow only saving me $200 on my tax bill this year. WTF, tax code.
It pays to make bigger mistakes? $8,000 in debt is your problem. $800m is your bank’s problem.
Glasnow is a good case for why just changing the pitching coach isn’t enough. Searage has one of the best track records as a pitching coach in the last decade. He’s also pretty data-savvy as coaches go. But he couldn’t finish Glasnow’s development and the Pirates sold low on him.
The Rays have a much more comprehensive approach on the data side, including biomechanical R&D. No surprise then they’re the ones who both acquired Glasnow and improved his performance.
So there are definitely some gains to be had from just finding someone better than Cooper is at this point. However, what the Sox really need is a root & branch overhaul of how they operate. That’s true whether they’re spending at the Rays’ level, the Mariners’, or the Dodgers’.