Chris Getz goes viral for thinking Luisangel Acuña is a switch-hitter
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What mistake did Chris Getz make about Luis Angel Acuna?
It really is about being able to bring in Acuna, getting access to him. And, you know, we're talking about a player that's five plus years of control. One of the younger, exciting players in our game, you know, hasn't really gotten a runway at the major league level.
That was Chris Getz talking about Luis Angel Acuna, who was acquired from the Mets in the Luis Robert trade. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. And you've probably seen it by now. We've gotten questions about it. Are you guys going to talk about Chris Getz calling Luis Angel Acuna a switch hitter four times in his media availability yesterday? Yes. Yes, we are. if it were only four times in one media availability. Ex-user Sam Phalen, P-H-A-L-E-N, sorry if I mispronounced it, posted a compilation of Gats referring to Luis Angel Acuna as a switch hitter many times. Not just a general media availability, SoxFest, The Recap Podcast, and on CHSN.
You know, he's got a lot of potential. He can play all over the diamond. He's a strong defender, base runner, switch hitter. He can do a lot of different things to help you win. I want to bring someone in that you're excited about, right? And our evaluations on Acuna are very strong, you know, for the reasons you stated. Very strong defensively, switch hitter. He can run. He's got great instincts. To bring in a player that is young, who's got pedigree, he's got bloodlines with his brother, can play all over the field. He's a switch hitter.
For him to have four home run nights, that would be fantastic. This is a guy, his high contact ability, switch hitter.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's one thing to make mistakes. Goodness knows.
Why is Luis Angel Acuna considered an exciting player?
We are in live radio four and a half hours a day. Your brain turns to mosh and it's hard to keep track. Everybody knows that. As a GM, when you're supposed to keep track of thousands of players, that is also difficult. But when you say it in multiple different media availabilities and multiple times in the most recent one, that leads me to believe you did not know that he only bats right-handed. He's 5'8", by the way, which normally I don't complain about because I'm 5'3", and what do I care? But in this case, when you're trying to evaluate talent, when you traded away Luis Robert, who you signed to $20 million, it starts to add up.
One Luis for another. We know which one is better. We also understand, as you heard on the way into this segment, about giving him a runway to kind of get his major league career going after playing part-time the last couple of years for the Mets. The thing that surprises me about this is that no one said anything after, let's say Sox Fest, right? Like time number one.
Now I just hear that buzzer.
Well, because anybody can misspeak one time. Two times, okay, that's not great. But three times? Three times? That's your job is to know your players. And then the fourth time is like, hey, man, that's when they start compiling things. It's like, I feel like I've heard this before. And people start looking for it and sending examples of it to Sam. And then he puts that together. And I don't know if I'm more disturbed by the fact that he didn't know or And I'm saying he didn't know. Did he really not know that he's not a switch hitter? That's the question.
Well, that's the bigger issue here. Because I've heard a lot of GMs talk about switch hitters over time. We talk to one every week here on The Score. Shout out Connect Roasters Tumblr on our set.
How many times did Chris Getz mistakenly call Acuna a switch hitter?
Ian Happ. But if you thought that you were getting a switch hitter, which it sure sounds like he is... given everything going on with the Sox and the fact that you were brought in from being the assistant general manager, where you didn't like the way that the minor league players weren't developing into major league ones, when that's your responsibility. And then to add this on top, like already you were digging yourself out of a reputational hole a bit. And I give Chris Getz credit because I think he knew that. He knew that Jerry Reinsdorf had brought him in to, again, use the phrase shorten the timeline.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What mistake did Chris Getz make about Luis Angel Acuna?
0:00–2:13
2
Why is Luis Angel Acuna considered an exciting player?
2:13–4:06
3
How many times did Chris Getz mistakenly call Acuna a switch hitter?
4:06–5:22
4
What are the implications of Getz's repeated error?
5:22–6:36
5
How does Getz's mistake reflect on his role as GM?
6:36–8:02
6
What does the discussion reveal about player evaluations?
8:02–9:40
7
How does the media react to Getz's comments on Acuna?
9:40–10:09
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