Inside Look at the Astros

[tobi0040]

From the comments:

 

[Nationals GM Mike] Rizzo called [Luhnow] to inquire on Harrell. JL told him we would still need a headliner like Giolito because we still value Harrell highly. Rizzo did not respond immediately.

 

To be fair, Rizzo thought his laughter from that one could be heard 1,500 miles away.

 

I am sure the Nats would have been happy about letting Giolito go for Harrell. After the one good year, which I assume is when this discussion happened, Harrell has put up these numbers:

 

2013 - 5.86 ERA in 153 IP. One more K (89) than BB (88)

2014 - 9.49 ERA in 12 IP. 9-9 K to BB

 

Giolito has 10 K per 9 and a 2.30 ERA in high A.

[halfchest]

Yeah, I am guessing the Twins were pretty gung ho on fixing the holes this off-season via free agency and holding onto all of their prospects for the rebuild. Also maybe this indicates that they did (and still possibly) view Pinto as the catcher of the future?.

 

I assume they still are and that is why he was sent down. He was still hitting well when he was sent down just not getting time behind the plate. Just checked and he's only playing a little over %50 of his games at Catcher in Rochester with his other starts being at DH. Seems odd but I assume if they were going to pull him from catcher they would have him start working at 1B or the outfield.

[diehardtwinsfan]

Well it sounds to me that the only issue was not having the latest Norton Anti-virus to prevent the spyware that got into the system. I thought it implied that outside deviants were just easily able to get in. I didn't think anyone internal was to blame. Except for the programmers they hired out of the local tech school.

 

I'm sure it's bigger than that. For one, Norton sucks. Second, this would be housed on a server and under no circumstances should anyone be accessing it and 'surfing the net' to get this type of spyware on it. That would be a fireable offense in any IT organization.

 

I'm guessing this was more likely an insider leak. If someone simply hacked them, they had problems long before the virus/spyware protection on their system (such as default settings not being changed, really simple passwords, etc)... Lots more going on here.

[biggentleben]

I'm sure it's bigger than that. For one, Norton sucks. Second, this would be housed on a server and under no circumstances should anyone be accessing it and 'surfing the net' to get this type of spyware on it. That would be a fireable offense in any IT organization.

 

I'm guessing this was more likely an insider leak. If someone simply hacked them, they had problems long before the virus/spyware protection on their system (such as default settings not being changed, really simple passwords, etc)... Lots more going on here.

 

That said, the login page to the entire system has been put around the internet recently to a number of people, so it wasn't exactly "secure" from outside entry, either.

[diehardtwinsfan]

That said, the login page to the entire system has been put around the internet recently to a number of people, so it wasn't exactly "secure" from outside entry, either.

 

Then no amount of AV software would have fixed it. They setup a portal and didn't secure it... dumb.