It’s Time to Cut the Cord on Dana Brown

This is a purposeful piggyback on my colleague Joel Blank’s post from a couple of days ago. He asked the question, when it is time to pull the plug on Dana Brown and Joe Espada ? I usually don’t write entire essays in response to another article, but Joel asked a serious question and it deserves a serious answer.

I can flush out my thoughts better in this format than in a simple reply to the article itself. There comes a time when you just run out of runway. That time has come for Dana Brown.

My normal course on these little essays is to first admit my own culpability. I was a James Click fan, but I also believed in Jim Crane. Granted, I probably shouldn’t have had faith in the immediate aftermath of an off-season that saw him, Jeff Bagwell, and Reggie Jackson sign Jose Abreu and Rafael Montero.

However, this is a guy that had hired Jeff Luhnow, A. J. Hinch, Dusty Baker, and Click.