Comments on: What I Like About the Francona Hire

By: Steve Alex

Steve Alex — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:43:43 +0000

I’m hearing that Francona got $4M a year for four years. Other than Kerry Wood (2 yrs/$20M), when was the last time the Indians spent as much as $16 million to bring in a free agent player? I can’t think of ANY others since the Dolans bought the team. Knowing that, and knowing that this will probably be THE big move of the offseason, how can this be heralded as a good use of limited resources when Sandy Alomar was already in place at a fraction of the cost? How many more wins will Francona get out of Corey Kluber and Brent Lillibridge than Alomar would have?

By: Mike Witczak

Mike Witczak — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:18:00 +0000

Agreed. Getting the cool toy is great. But getting the latest game machine doesn’t help if there are no cartridges (yes, I’m a little, of age) to put in the slot. As for Sandy, I hope he gets his dream job. Just want to see him do well. I would also love him here in Cleveland, but he’s been good to us, we need to wish him the best too!

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:15:02 +0000

The Francona signing signals, what one can only hope, the franchise making a return to the glory days. The roster turnover should be significant, or at the very least we should see the young players making strides towards becoming more respectable. We need to start taking pages from successful programs such as the Cardinals, Nationals, and Rays; build up our farm system, sign low A-high B free agents, and play good defense.

By: Steve Alex

Steve Alex — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:56:32 +0000

This will be a great move by the Indians if, and only if, they add quality players to the roster to make the team better and deeper. I don’t want to hear the GM talk about how great our talent is and how they need to play better under Terry Francona. He’s not a magician. When another team cuts their backup utility man and he becomes your #5 hitter, that means you don’t have great talent. When all five of your opening day starting pitchers have ERAs over 4.90 and four of them are over 5.40, you don’t have great talent. Expecting Terry Francona to wave a magic wand and turn 10 good players into a winning 25-man team is not realistic. This needs to be the 1st of several good moves.

By: GG Allin

GG Allin — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:00:18 +0000

Better For Sandy to get a managing opportunity elsewhere so we can dig up Candy Maldonado or Luis Medina to help Francona out.

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:40:19 +0000

I want Sandy to get a job elsewhere. A lot of great managers need one or two jobs before they become great.