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MLB Rumors: Farrell Turns Down Interview

October 13, 2009 by 17 Comments

John Farrell IndiansTake this for what it is worth as it is coming out of Boston, but as a follow-up the TD’s news from last night, Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell has reportedly turned down the chance to interview with the Cleveland Indians. 

This is turning into quite a he said-she said between the Indians (and Paul Hoynes) and Red Sox (and ESPN, Boston Globe, etc). 

Since serving as the director of player development – a concept that has since been apparently ignored by the Indians - Farrell would be welcomed back with open arms.  However, until we get a confirmation, everything is speculation.

Assumed to be at the top of the wishlist, this would not be the best of news.  I have a feeling this is all going to go down a similar path as it did with the Browns and all of the Bill Cowher talks from last winter.  If so, I can’t wait to see who the MLB version of Josh McDaniels will be!

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  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com Denny

    :{( (That’s a frowny face with a moustachio).

  • Matt#2

    If going from a successful stint as pitching coach to manager is a natural step on the career arc (a proposition for which I can offer no support), it does not necessarily follow that going from pitching coach on a really good team to a managerial job on a really bad team is a similarly natural step on the career arc.

    If the “career arc” proposition is correct, I see getting another recently fired manager, a pitching-coach-level guy from a .500-ish team, or a lower-than-pitching-coach-level guy from a playoff team.

    Else, there’s always the favorite former player angle (Manning, Vizquel).

  • Matt#2

    Farrell’s Topps Card is a merger of Dirty Harry and young Matt Dillon.

  • Matt#2

    Albert Belle

  • Matt#2

    Albert Bell?

  • kevin

    It doesn’t hurt that while being pitching coach on said better team, your GM can buy the best pitching talent available for you to work with.

  • Isis

    This should tell you all you need to know about the legitimacy of this opening under this ownership/management team, contrary to TD’s rosey portrayal of such. Farrell should know, he worked under Shapiro and yet still doesn’t even allow the courtesy of an interview.

    Get used to the second rate candidates you’ve never heard of heading this list. Mike Hargrove is indeed salivating, as is the great Tory Luvello and Mike Sarbaough-oh, how many teams have them on their list?

    To Kevin above: nobody would rather be a pitching coach over being a manager, unless something is amiss-forget about the pitching on “said” team.

  • DJ

    I don’t believe anything that is printed by the Boston Globe. Either way, this is nothing to get worked up about. If Farrell wants the job, it’s his…simple as that.

  • Matt#2

    @7
    Might Farrell be expecting to hear from a “better” team in the near-ish term while keeping success on his resume? I doubt that having crappy seasons in Cleveland is going to help him land a manager post for a good team.
    I don’t know if he’d be making a good play by not interviewing with the Tribe, but I don’t know of another reason to refuse an interview, except – of course – your belief that the ownership/management team is a sufficient repellent.
    (It seems possible, also, that declining an interview could be more of a courtesy than going to an interview for a job he has no intention of taking.)

  • Matt#2

    I just read the Boston Globe article. It says Farrell’s turned down managerial interviews/jobs three years running. Maybe it’s not about Cleveland.

  • Chris

    I’m pretty sure Isis lives to get a rise out of the commentariat, considering he never contributes anything useful.

  • MrCleaveland

    This is all a bunch of smoke. A friend of mine in the real estate biz told me that Farrell just bought a house in Strongsville. It’s right next to Bill Cowher’s house.

  • Harv 21

    Whatever, these Farrell rumors are a charade to show the thoroughness and seriousness of the search. The Sox are undoubtedly paying him decently right now. With his stock high, Farrell would be smart to wait for a managerial opening from an organization able to spend money in the next to win now, rather than going to a team financially hamstrung for at least the next few years. And by the way, no one has any idea if he’d be a decent manager anyway.

    Bring on Senor Mitt-to-the-Face!

  • http://clev.com zeppelin1

    Valintine

  • bobby

    really, why would anyone want to leave NYY, Bos, PHI, LAD, etc, to go to a mid-to-small market team? the way baseball is set up it could just be career suicide, because there no way the tribe can be a perennial top team with out spending money, but you gotta make money to spend it.

  • kevin

    Isis,

    If you are going to insist that you know what EVERY SINGLE PITCHING COACH in the history of the game has thought about leaving that position to become a manager than please leave my posts alone. It tarnishes their good name.

    You do not, in fact, know everything.

  • http://whygavs.com Pat

    Did Farrell really have a good relationship with the Indians when he left in 2006? Neal Huntington wanted him for the same spot with the Pirates in 2007 when they were hiring a manager and the same thing happened; the media announced him as the front-runner, the Pirates waited for the Red Sox playoff run to end, and then he told the team he wasn’t interested in the job before they even had a chance to interview him.

    Now, even as a Pirate fan I can understand him not wanting to come to Pittsburgh, but it seems to me that the relationship between him and the guys he used to work with is maybe not all that great if this kind of thing has happened twice now.