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AI – As a follow up in 2022 here are the top teams in baseball and bottom teams in baseball for analytics personnel.
Rays – 37
Dodgers – 29
Phillies – 27
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Rockies – 5
White Sox – 5

The As with the lowest payroll had 8.
Dodgers and Mets with the highest payrolls had 29 and 26 respectively.

Six of the thirty teams had less than 10 employees.
Eight of the thirty teams had over 20 employees.

Now break down the areas within the analytics department and how they work with the coaching staff and then tell me who has the final say on the field? Yes, Cora has many advisors but he reports to NONE of them.

It’s his call because his job depends on his choices, or at least it should!!

AITSTYW – I read the breaking news as it happened. I read as each Red Sox employee backed down from their statements to the Athletic. Reading fiction made up by Manfred seems meaningless to me. He gave 3 clowns a 60 game sentence for cheating on up to 90 games. He gets absolutely no respect from me after dishonoring the memory of all those players in MLB history who didn’t cheat.. He’s a politician not a commissioner. He lies for a living.

Do you even remember the details of how all the 2018 cheating was uncovered then covered up?

Lets review the sequence of events. The Athletic goes to print on a scandal related to the media room when multiple employees of the Red Sox organization tell them about the way Cora had designed the system to work. This was a follow-up to the Houston Astros scandal involving the same Alex the Cheat Cora.

During the Astros investigation the MLBPA insisted that no player talked without their supervision of the discussion. The commissioner was looking to be a protege of Selig (the liar) and wanted to save baseball yet again by ridding it of sign stealing so he initially went after the story with vigor.

Once all sides were heard, the proof of the Astros cheating was documented by players because the commissioner gave them amnesty. Then the Red Sox got a break because the names of those testifying were leaked to the public and the players were vilified. Thus, all those who testified initially to the Athletic reporters saw the consequences of having their names leaked and took the fifth instead of coming forward and helping to clean up baseball.

So basically, the cat was out of the bag and the Players Association pushed the cat back into the bag and pretended nothing happened. The Red Sox weren’t indicted like the Astros because the eye witnesses clammed up so there was no official proof. Just the words that were shared with the Athletic reporters.

Would Red Sox employees be motivated to make the facts up about what Cora did to put the Media Room cheating scheme in play during the 2018 season? It certainly doesn’t seem anymore likely that the witnesses made up the story (lied) than it would seeing an eye witness to murder come forward and then change their minds when their family is threatened by the people doing the crimes.

If you want to naively believe those people were all mistaken and came to their senses, that’s fine. I don’t. They were coerced out of their testimonies just like in normal life outside of baseball.

So does that mean it didn’t happen? Only to a fan who is ok with closing their eyes to the truth.

So if you don’t believe the anonymous sources and the detailed accounts documented by legitimate reporters with the Athletic, then next time you read something on this site, just ignore it. It’s the same type of liars that made up the Red Sox cheating scandal.

You’ve heard the phrase “if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck” haven’t you? The updated version is “if it looks like a Cora, cheats like Cora, then it must be Cora!!”