Brockton Rox offer GM job to Theo Epstein

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Minor League team offers GM job to former Red Sox boss

 

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) -- It didn't take long for Theo Epstein to get another offer to be a Baseball general manager -- if he doesn't mind cuts in his salary and the team payroll.

 

The independent Brockton Rox, who play about 30 minutes south of Fenway Park, offered Epstein their GM job on Thursday.

 

The team, which plays in the Canadian-American League, is restricted to a total player payroll of $87,500 -- far less than the Major League minimum of $316,000 per player and far below Boston's $126.8 million payroll this year.

 

"It's assumed that Epstein is looking for a greater challenge,'' the team said in a statement, noting that Epstein could sweeten the pot for players with an $18 per diem and put them up with a host family.

 

Current Rox GM Andy Crossley basically dared Epstein to replace him.

 

"If the Rox can get Theo Epstein to take this job, great. All I can say is, good luck signing Manny Ramirez on our budget,'' Crossley said. "We signed Emmanuel Ramirez as a pitcher last season, but we paid him about $800 per month.''

 

Rox owners include comedian Bill Murray and Mike Veeck, son of former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck. The team has led the league in attendance in each of the past three seasons, and this year it gave 45-year-old former Red Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd a platform for his comeback.

 

The team said Epstein could join Boyd for Thanksgiving dinner in the pitcher's hometown of Meridian, Miss., in an effort to get the deal done. Epstein used a similar tack to bring Curt Schilling to Boston.

 

One warning for the 31-year-old Baseball boy wonder, though: "We don't actually have an office for Theo,'' Rox president Jim Lucas said. "But we built two new cubicles this year and he'd have his own phone and access to the internet.''

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..........his own phone and internet access.....what else do you need ?!!

 

Sign me up !!

 

Remember, Theo still has the same cell phone so that his agent can contact him at anytime (with any kind of offer that will come his way ).!!

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from independent.mostvaluablenetwork.com:

 

 

One Good Idea Doesn’t Always Deserve Another

 

Golden Baseball League proudly announced that it has offered former Los Angeles General Manager Paul DePodesta the general manager position with the Long Beach Armada.

 

Wow, what a great idea, too bad they didn’t think of it 24-hours earlier. When the Brockton Rox offered their job to Theo Epstein it was a cute media-grabbing moment.

 

When the GBL does the same thing several hours later it just looks like somebody riding on the coattails. Hey, at least they were honest enough to admit it:

 

In an e-mail sent out by the League:

 

“We certainly were inspired by the Brockton Rox offer to Theo Epstein earlier today and applaud them on opening the door to a new source of administrative talent for the Independent Minor Leagues,” said David Kaval, CEO of the Golden Baseball League. “But more importantly, Paul DePodesta is the best man available in the L.A. market and we are thrilled to make this offer. We believe that his proven creativity in team-building will improve an already fine Armada squad, led by manager Darrell Evans.”