Jeff Luhnow

“Some say that by some metrics, he was the best scouting director in the seven years he was there of any scouting director, as far as picks he made that turned into big leaguers.”

“I really think what tipped them ultimately was the fact that essentially their gut was what made the final call, like Jeff Luno making informed but gut decisions to really put the finishing touches on this champion, whether you look at Acquiring Justin Verland…”

“This was the plan that Jeff Lino presented to him when he sat down with him in 2011 to interview for the job. He made like a 22 or 23 page Essentially guide to what they were going to do and why they had to do it.”

“To Luno, you know, this is the sort of unquantifiable, like, grit, drive. Growth mindset type of things that they look for. So the scouting side of things really tipped that away from somebody like Byron Buxton, who was, you know, probably consensus number one…”

“He's currently suing the Astros for twenty two million dollars because they tore up his contract, firing him for cause in relation to this.”

“Major League Baseball, as I said, did an extensive investigation into this. Even they couldn't prove that Jeff Luno knew. You know, they looked at tens of thousands of emails and texts and They interviewed, like, dozens and dozens of witnesses, many of whom pr…”

“Jeff Luno, I think, will have a tougher road. Well, especially now that he's suing the Astros for twenty-two million dollars. That probably doesn't help his chances, but he was always somebody who never quite shed his outsider status. In a lot of ways, he embr…”

“Baseball having just gotten through this huge ethical scandal. We've cleaned up the game. We've kicked Jeff Luno out for a year. We've kicked the manager out. We really care about ethics. And then they turn around and they rush through the approval process. A …”