What makes the story even crazier is that his dad, Jim Tracy, did almost the exact same thing. He took over the Rockies in 2009 when they fired Clint Hurdle after an 18-28 start, and got them into the playoffs. Only difference is that his dad was the bench coach instead of the AAA manager.

If Chad Tracy wins manager of the year, he’d be the first manager since his dad to win it after getting the job midseason. If someone pitched that to Hollywood I’m pretty sure it’d get put down for being too storybook.

Almost like when Farrell took over from Bobby V and won the World Series, just on a much shorter timeline

Forget the first week of June, on June 25th, we were 32-46 and coming off a series loss to the Rockies, who were the worst team in baseball, where we got walked off and blew multiple late game leads.

Even when we immediately followed that up with a 4 game sweep of the Yankees I, and probably every other Sox fan, would’ve still called you insane if you suggested this was a playoff team.

I would’ve asked how long you’ve been stupid tbh

I was worried they’d lose their beloved AAA development manager because he’d go down with the interim ship

The Boston Chad Sox

There were Globe pieces about how he might not even make it to the end of the year, that’s like a death sentence. The whole of may was about “should a guy who is about to be fired handle selling off the major league pieces”.

Thanks, Brez you fucking stiff

The run-prevention plan was working all along, problem was so many of their players came out of the gate not even hitting badly but horribly. They had a decent team OBP but couldn’t get the guys home. Tracy and the other Chad, AA manager turned 3B coach right away said they needed to be more aggressive taking bases given their speed. Durbin turned it around, tons of role players came into the mix well, etc.

And Breslow’s find of / the minor league coaches metamorphosis of Tyron Guerrero and Jake Bennett definitely needs extra praise.

Going to be funny next year when people on here start praising stearns again too

Felt like Red Sox nation were calling for his head and now he’s being praised

Yeah I still don’t think it’s a good move. I hope im wrong but he’s made way too many poor decisions to deserve going through 2030

Still sucks. He’s allergic to the idea of acquiring good hitters. Perpetually overpays at the deadline. Can’t develop right handed pitchers. He’s gutted the farm to field incomplete teams.

A lot of Red Sox pitching depth went to St. Louis that has been unfortunately injured for them. Harrison would have been in that spot starter role for us and he had nothing to learn in AAA so he was in the Durbin trade. That is why Bennett made sense and he’s also struggled the last couple months. Perales obviously has issues and one options so Red Sox didn’t have the time or paitence to fix that while the Nationals do.

I also don’t know where Mead fits long term so Nats might win the Early trade. I would rather have a front office making moves in an attempt to get better than being afraid to lose a trade. Eventually they will stumble on the right answer.

Turns out you need to actually see the players okay before deciding on a trade. Who knew

That would be great but the White Sox manager is pretty much locked into that award I’d say

If it makes you feel better, the Cubs have had 61.

Chad had to convince the team to buy in, once they did that they’ve been one of the best teams in the league.

Takes some time to change the team’s approach to most things.

The last interim manager to win was Tracy’s father.

good question, think it would be an ownership decision