I'm surprised it happened this early but given Crane's track record, he prefers to have the edge on other teams when it comes to extra time to hire managers. At the end of the day Porter's firey personality and refusal to embrace analytics is what cost him. You live by that personality, you die by that personality.

I'd love to see Craig Biggio hired. That said, they better get someone who lives and breathes analytics like Bob Melvin. Start aiming for assistants I guess. I wish we'd get someone with experience winning, but I don't want Bobby V ever here. That's a much more firey personality than Bo ever was.