M2 (10-18-2020),mth123 (10-18-2020),RiverRat13 (10-19-2020)
The search is OVER! and the winner is......... Castellini's pocket!
KronoRed (10-19-2020)
From Nightengale Twitter:
#Reds announce GM Nick Krall will fill Dick Williams' position and become the new head of the baseball operations department. He will keep his GM title.
https://twitter.com/nightengalejr/st...203535882?s=12
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This was anticlimactic. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I don't think Krall will be bad, it's just a little strange to me.
Why wait a couple of weeks to announce this? Was there going to be a search at all? Why didn't they just announce it when Williams left? The timing just seems odd to me.
jwdoc77 (10-19-2020),Ron Madden (10-19-2020)
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
cincinnati chili (10-19-2020),Gandalf the Red (10-19-2020)
When Jocketty "left" and Williams was made the man, he didn't get Krall as GM right away. I'm guessing there will be a move at some point. Will it be a PR move, like giving the "GM" job to Barry Larkin or Johnny Bench or something, or will it be a baseball move where they get an actual GM? Will they continue to promote from within and continue to grow a tree without many branches, or will they bring in some new blood, new perspectives and new ideas by searching outside? I think there is another shoe to drop, but it may be 2022 before it happens.
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RiverRat13 (10-20-2020),Ron Madden (10-19-2020)
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As we see teams downsizing in response to the pandemic, it’ll be interesting to see if this becomes a trend. Titles have wildly changed over the last decade. Krall’s title remains the same. He’ll still be the GM and do what is traditionally the GM job
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