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| Crane (L), Henry (R) |
There's been a lot of talk about which direction Red Sox baseball operations will take in the Post-
Larry Lucchino Era. Matthew Kory of
FanGraphs.com suggests that Lucchino's departure offers Boston
an opportunity to move in a different philosophical direction—although he admits that might not be the right thing to do. So, would
John Henry really consider abandoning the "analytics" philosophy that broke
The Curse and delivered three rings in ten years? Let's remember who this Henry character is—aside from being a dead ringer for the
Washington Irving character
Ichabod Crane. Henry is a commodities-trading geek, who developed a mechanical, "emotion-free" system of analyzing stock trends. Does this sound like a guy who's going to abandon baseball analytics and move to the "gut analysis" approach?
Not bloody likely! Look for any Lucchino replacement to be of the new breed—like a
J.P. Ricciardi. Or, he might even steal
Jed Hoyer away from
Theo Epstein.
