Originally Posted by
Julio3000
I'm fine with Wren having been fired. I'm annoyed at the lip service paid to "accountability" that didn't actually extend beyond the Wren family and their close cohorts.
It bears repeating: JS was Wren's boss. He was, if I understand correctly, his immediate superior. The fact that he's largely escaped criticism for Wren's tenure blows my mind. Yes, he deserves credit for his body of work. He's arguably a HOF executive. On the other hand, during the end of his GM tenure he seemed like he was flailing, and unable to adjust to the realities of the stinky economics of baseball . . . and he was a piss-poor senior executive if half of the stories about Wren's tenure were true. He watched the organization rot for years and did nothing about it?
To me, any story that is about Wren is about John Suspenders, too.