Red Sox ownership is reaping what it has sown in MLB.
As I have said numerous times, the Red Sox President of Baseball Operations and General Manager positions will be very difficult to fill.
Rumor has been flying around MLB that Red Sox owner John Henry meddles too much in baseball decisions (an East Coast version of the Angels Arte Moreno)
ET, Director of Business Operations Sam Kennedy (has direct access to John Henry) and also constantly interferes, interferes and, along with Henry, challenges and vetoes baseball decisions made by baseball experts.
Although both Henry and Kennedy are accomplished in their areas of expertise (Henry makes money investing) (Kennedy in running the business side of things),
Neither Henry nor Kennedy are knowledgeable and experienced in baseball-related decisions: building championship teams, drafts, trades, building front offices and farm teams, player development, free agent signings, when to cut players and more.
Too much drama, too much interference, too much questioning of professional baseball decisions by non-baseball players.
Experienced, cracker baseball professionals running an MLB front office
I don’t have the time and/or patience to teach executive level courses
to people outside of baseball who can’t gain decades of baseball experience “on the fly.” And very few front office executives with baseball experience have the patience to justify, debate, and try to convince non-baseball decision makers (Henry and Kennedy) to come on board with every consequential decision they want to make.
This, my friends, is too much for them!
I understand that they wouldn’t have the patience to put up with this sort of thing. The job of a baseball operations person is hard enough work (and the
GM job) without adding many extra layers of work and bureaucracy.
To stay ahead of their competitors, they must act quickly and take advantage of highly competitive and highly fluid situations.
It’s like working in a sand dune situation…and often getting bogged down.
Not for the most experienced baseball executives.
