John Farrell

Basically what happened has happened in the past for those who aren't aware is that teams will make a trade and they'll let the manager out of their contract to go to their team.

I'm not going to bore you with all the details, but like John Farrell and Ozzie Guillen and Lou Piniella have all been part of it in the last 25 plus years.

um it's rare but it does happen um i'm not going to go into all the details on that but there is a press in it and like you said i don't think cleveland would let vote out of his contract to go there especially an american league potential contender um whatever yeah i don't think it would happen so the question people have asked is what is vote really worth and i think that's very hard to say is because um I just don't know what it would like.

I think the best precedent to look at is someone like, you know, a John Farrell.

I don't know.

I suppose the Lou Piniella one is... enough no you don't you seem to not agree

And I mean, that ended up being a terrible deal for Tampa.

So I also think that might be the outlier where that is the deal that's like, you know, they gave up a solid prospect and their manager and got, you know, an everyday outfielder.

And so i- i- it's, it's one of those things.

You make a decision, and John Harbaugh had to make a decision.

He wanted guys who wanted to be here, and Dexter Lawrence didn't wanna be here, and so you trade him because you, 'cause you, you had to.

And so they didn't replace him.

He said may, maybe.

Oh, dude, he's lea- that's weird.

But you know what? John, I mean, you have to think about leaving if you don't have a contract.

I completely agree with you.

He moved up to Class A Lake County, managing that team, winning manager of the year, goes back to Kinston to be manager there, moves up to the big league club as Cleveland's first base coach from 06 to 09.

And then after a managerial change in Cleveland, the Blue Jays hire him to manage at AA before moving him into what was called a scouting role under manager John Farrell.

He was called an eye in the sky and the team used him to get around the limit of six uniformed coaches where basically he would be in plain clothes and watching from above, but then he could communicate to the players in a semi on the field role, but not really.

Cheating.

Nice approach for him.

Chris Sale is available in the pen according to John Farrell.

2-1.

Springer lines this one into left field for a base hit.

Here's a 2-2.

Breaking ball, strike three call on the inside corner, and Pedroia is furious.

John Farrell jogging out of the dugout to separate Pedroia from Mark Wagner and make sure Pedroia stays in this game.

And Farrell standing in front of Pedroia trying to push him away as he has words with Wagner.

By the way-

Get John Farrell out of retirement.

Get him o- off the fisherman docks and bring him in as the assistant manager.

Real quick on, on home runs, they went from 15th in home runs last year to 26th in home runs this year-