El Guapo's Ghost Rambles on about the Red Sox

IT'S ALL IN THE TIMING

Baseball and Red Sox Rumors. It is time to heat up the Hot Stove.

Grady Little's replacement rumors (it is difficult for me to make fun of a person who has just become unemployed; he is back to SCL by tomorrow):
Edes
Edes again
Silverman
One big name, Davey Johnson, who played under Earl Weaver (a.k.a the SABR ideal Manager) and has won a W.S. was not mentioned by the Boston media. He would be a good choice.

El Guapo's Ghost also likes Larry Dierker as I did back in July. Rob Neyer had a very interesting interview with Dierker. After reading the piece, I think you will agree that Dierker believes in the Red Sox philosophy and has won with the Astros. He was not drafted and developed by the organization either. My only concern right now is his ability to handle the second guessing of not only the players but the media, the front office, the owners and all of real New England. Dierker says

I think those guys -- not Bagwell so much, but maybe Biggio more so -- started wondering if we were playing the right people, if the manager was making the right moves, that sort of stuff. I don't think Biggio was more of a problem than anybody else, in terms of what he said. But because it was Biggio, maybe people paid a little more attention. But he wasn't that big a problem.

Dierker would need to get the big three's buy in to be successful in Beantown as would any Manager to a certain extent.

BTW, this article by Adrian Wojnarowski could be the worst thing I have ever read on espn.com, including Gammons' work before he was assigned an intern to run his pieces through spell and grammar check (I know I am not much better, but I don't get paid for this stuff either), I hope a fellow blogger rips this to pieces like Ed Cossette did today. I would but not enough time this week.