From the position of Crane, Click was wrong at the deadline all the way around, Click was wrong about Pena and where to bat him in the line up, Click was wrong about Verlander.
It’s not entirely fair to Click because it’s cherry picking his moves.
The communication skills between Click and Baker and Click and Crane and Click and others seem to have been a big part of this. Really surprising because Click always seemed so measured and mild mannered.
I’ll say this… Crane has huge balls. He fired his GM, fired his GM’s right hand man, after winning a WS a week earlier and he has no Luhnow type guy in waiting.
No one told me this, but it also seems like after the 2017 abuse he and his team took, he doesn’t care what the outside media or fans think. He won a WS, he knows his GM was leaking crap to the media and the media was anti-Astro and he still offered a 1 year contract… the GM mentions his family and wanting to remain with a “deal” and Crane never even negotiates and gives his GM a take it or leave it scenario. 24 hours later Click is gone with the parade confetti still being cleaned up.
If Jim’s source is mostly correct, Click was difficult to work with and caused dissatisfaction in the workplace. This is the kind of stuff none of us will never know unless someone who was there and saw/experienced it speaks up.
I feel like an idiot for not knowing this, but who was instrumental in letting Carlos go (or deciding not to pony up), was it Crane, Click or just the combo?
Well, if what we’re reading has any truth to it, Click was, to Crane, irritatingly parsimonious with Crane’s money, so it could very well be Click thinking it unwise to allocate $350MM or whatever Correa was dreaming of to a single player.
Of course, we now know that the author of that thought, whoever it might have been, was quite correct.
Rosenthal says Rizzo is the Astros #1 FA target at 1B.
Less news as regards JV. Just that not quickly re-signing with Houston (like last year) might mean he’s going to listen on offers from the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets.