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Originally Posted by browna
Rightly or wrongly, for whatever it’s worth, I don’t think Berrios likes/trusts/cares much for the leadership in the organization. That all originally stems from the decision made by the computer to pull him in the 3rd inning in that playoff games vs the Twins.
With finger pointing and no one really taking accountability for making that decision in the aftermath, publicly and possibly privately, made it worse.
Fast forward to last season and from the sounds of it, sounds again like those making the decisions from the Jays probably didn’t handle all the factors around his demotion very well either. It seems somewhat clunky and sudden from the outside, certainly with the goal of having Yasavage slot in and seemingly pushing him off to the side with some vauge reasoning.
One can’t let the success on the field last year mask the fact that this GM, President and even the manger don’t and haven’t in the the last few years, seem to endear themselves to too many players.
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Yeah. I would say I'm not sure how much of the big improvement from 2024 to 2025 is from management. I think the clubhouse caught lightning in a bottle (mostly luck), Barger/Clement broke out, and Springer had an MVP-votes calibre season.
Big offseason additions of Santander/Gimenez/Scherzer were uninspiring at best.
Vladdy extension looks brilliant though after his playoff performance. Hard to know what would have happened without that.
It definitely seems like a management group that doesn't value relationships with the players very highly though. I get it's a business, and so that might be the correct choice.