(01-10-2025, 04:53 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(01-10-2025, 09:57 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: So if the bolded is true, what does Baalke do around here?

He doesn't coach. He doesn't pick the players.

If that's actually a serious question - I'm wasting my keystrokes here. 

I'm sure you have some inkling of what he does. 

He manages an entire staff of personnel people that research prospects as well as pro players who may be available in the short or long term - and these employees also help him register and archive the progress of his acquisitions.
 He directs an office full of number crunchers that help him navigate constantly ongoing contract work and cap management. He does have LOTS to do with picking players - even if Khan most recently gave his past two coaches deference over the GM. It's a major process and the final decisions are only one part of it. 

Don't be naive, man. I know you're smarter than that. 

I want a better guy in his shoes as much as most fans, but I don't try to paint the guy as some useless figurehead with clipped wings.  He's done plenty of worthwhile work between being part of some bad picks and signings.

Why do fans have such a hard time objectively criticizing this guy? 
It's weird. You don't have to invent bull [BLEEP] to find his faults.