Thread on cheating scandal. Here’s the fucking truth about Jeff Luhnow & baseball ops under him. They didn’t take into consideration what Nolan Ryan, Craig Biggio, Reid Ryan & Enos Cabell had to offer on baseball ops. It’s quite rich of him to wondering why they didn’t know.
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If Luhnow wants to say players & AJ Hinch didn’t tell him, he can go there. Some might even believe him, but in my 23 years of covering ball I’ve found that players rarely spill info outside of the group. You can think you know, but you don’t. But he hired the “code breakers.”
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Luhnow had all year to speak. But as was the case throughout his tenure Luhnow is as calculated as ever. That’s why baseball folks throughout the country say he’s dismissive of traditional baseball folks, scouts, players, etc. He sees them as assets, people to manipulate. 3

The Astros screwed up. Luhnow was the president of baseball ops. Jim Crane made clear Reid Ryan handled business & Luhnow handled baseball ops. It was Luhnow’s culture. I wish him well, but he exits Houston as he arrived, shitting on people who devoted their lives to the Astros.