Jack Parkman

Yep. That being said, Pace was really young when he got hired as the Bears GM and I think he's going to be decent to good if he gets another job. Given that he picked Fields, I thin he will. Pace's last 2 drafts with the Bears before he got fired were pretty good.

It's been his nickname everywhere he's been. Started in Boston.

Nah, I'm convinced it's gonna be Tommy Pham, simply because of course they wouldn't actually address their need for a LH bat.

10D is so meh.

I'd actually take Gallo over 10D but yeah. I want the power, can live with the Ks and lower BA. Gallo could be 2012 Adam Dunn with better D and that's ok.

I meant that the torches and pitchforks would be out at 333 W. 35th St. That's what the fans would want to do to him.

f*** Risk. Do something

Can't be too disappointed if your expectations are so low.

I was giving an example of a primary addition that would get Hahn tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. I am expecting the worst.

Other: Tommy Pham.

I was arguing the opposite point so I thought the double negative was a better way to validate the point that poster made. Yes, I agree with that post.

I'm beginning to think they're doing absolutely nothing. They're going to run Sheets and Leury in LF and go internal at 2B.

They absolutely can be that stupid. You're talking about the same franchise that ran 3 1B/DH types in the corner OF last year.

This is a great post.

I don't disagree.

I think Jerry's budgets suck and are ridiculous, but I consider offseason moves based on what's realistic vs how I wish they would operate. Once they picked up Kimbrel, Rodon was no longer an option.

I think that was also a question. Would you want to spend $18.5M on a pitcher, that while good when healthy, is never healthy? Is that a smart allocation of resources? If you want to argue Rodon vs Kimbrel/Pollock that is a completely different story. I would have been on board with them giving Rodon the QO if they didn't pick up Kimbrel's option like idiots.

Obviously it was deadarm, but how were we to know that at the time? Complaining about letting Rodon walk is completely a hindsight argument. The decision looks worse than it actually was.

Preach.

In hindsight it was terrible but even in 2021 Rodon was struggling with his health. It was perfectly reasonable to make the assumption that he'd never stay healthy. He's only pitched 160 innings once since 2016 and that was in 2022.

I would have made the same decision on Rodon. I didn't trust him to stay healthy either, so I can't criticize Hahn for that one. Picking up Kimbrel's option was inexcusable. Also Hahn being a shitty GM and Jerry being a shitty owner are not mutually exclusive thoughts. They both suck. Go back to earlier in the thread and read my thoughts.