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And each of those guys was even more insane in the last two months or so. Extrapolating their numbers from those months would look like something Joe DiMaggio would have done. Seriously, 60+ 2Bs for Yoan and Timmy. And I think Eloy’s much higher slash towards the end will be closer to what he will do in future seasons. Monstrous.

Just for fun, here's Moncada, Timmy, and Eloy's 2019 season extrapolated to 162 games: M- 102 Rs, 42 2Bs, 6 3Bs, 31 HRs, 97 RBIs T- 107 Rs, 42 2Bs, 24 HRs, 74 RBIs, 22 SBs E- 91 Rs, 24 2Bs, 41 HRs, 104 RBIs

Isn’t Arenado pretty average away from Coors on his career?

A while back, I researched what Hitler was like as a person. One response was really insightful, with lots of well-sourced details. At the very end, it said, "Of course, there is strong evidence he regularly slept with his own mother, but that's for a different discussion on a different day." That was the last thing written. That's sort of like what you just did. You can't just leave that here, with zero elaboration. Where the hell did you find this? Who is actually talking about this?

We've been doing this for a century. Chief Bender, Johnny Evers, and Red Ruffing are all HOFers who had goofy stints with us at the ends of their careers. In the first two cases, these stints came years after they last played. It's a southside tradition!

This. Our lineup has pretty well-solidified all the way through with the additions of Robert, Madrigal, Grandal, and Mazara. We will sign a pitcher or possibly two, or acquire one via trade. The Indians are tearing down and the Twins had huge years from a ton of offensive players and garbage pitching. They'll come back to earth and we will contend. But here Sox fans are, despondent that we didn't sign Zack Wheeler.

Can we introduce downvotes? I would pay a small subscription fee to buy a batch of downvotes to properly insult this awful post.

I've been suggesting Leury as the other half of that platoon since we acquired Mazara. I think that'd be perfect.

Bumgarner is going to be a disaster away from SF and out of the NL.

He’s 32. He’s never been successful in MLB. Mazara is 24 and has 79 homeruns.

Yes, I’m absolutely serious. This dude is 32 and has been total garbage in MLB. The only place he’s produced is Asia. He’s a AAAA player. You might point out that he’s cheap but so is Nomar Mazara. The difference is that Mazara at worst will hit 20 bombs with a mid 700s OPS, pulled down by a weakness against LHP, and at best could blossom into his full potential. Lindblom isn’t going to do that. This guy is what he is. Soxtalk has weird fetishes and dislikes.

Yeah, I reread and noticed that. My bad. And while our idiotic use of money is indefensible, I still wouldn't go for this.

Probably is, but at least he’s only a year removed from showing a pulse. Pujols has been a waste for the last three years, and they weren’t even injury-stricken years. He’s just bad now. Seriously, I know it didn’t harm Frank at all, but I’m gonna be salty if Pujols gets something like 98% of the HOF vote on the first try and nobody even mentions his decline. They all talked about Frank’s decline, but except for his increasingly more common injuries with age, Frank hit like a HOFer pretty much until he hung up his cleats. Pujols hasn’t hit like one of those since he was 31.

Came here just to say this. They have some serious star power in Trout, Rendon, and Ohtani, one washed up and absolutely horrible contract in Pujols, and no pitching. They’re an older version of what we had three years ago.

Oh. He’s a 32 year old who spent a couple of years dominating Asian ball but sucks in the USA. Yeah, I’m good.

Huh? Getting a 24 year old who’s hit 19 or 20 homeruns every year he’s been in the league with OPS and SLG trending upward is despised, but paying $9 million a year for the next three for a guy who’s pitched 10 IP since 2014 is what some people were actually excited about?

It’s home-away splits more than anything that should keep us away. He’s terrible away from SF.

Good thing your excitement level doesn't determine the fate of the ALC.

Sure, but winning a playoff series is always a tough road. As much as I'd like to win the World Series every year for the next decade, I know that's unrealistic. I'll settle for something much more feasible, but which we have never done before: going to the playoffs multiple years in a row. And I think the team we are building is going to be capable of that.

I thought I read that it was something like .562. Either way, Mazara will bring a big improvement to a position where we totally sucked.

Sure, like Alen Hanson, who was highly touted and actually did nothing and whom you would seriously not want to acquire. Nomar Mazara's "nothing" consists of four straight seasons of 19-20 homeruns, a .317-.323 OBP, and a .419-.469 SLG (that metric has improved each year). He'll be an old 24 year old on OD 2020. At worst, he'll put up a mid-.700s OPS at a position where we got mid-.500s last year. At best, he'll totally break out. Or if we shield him from LHP by playing Leury, he'll put up a mid-.800s OPS. All for the price of Steele Walker.

Put Robert at the top. Let the man get as many ABs as possible. That's where his future is anyway. Madrigal 2B Moncada 3B Robert CF Eloy LF Grandal C Abreu 1B Anderson SS Mazara RF McCann/Collins DH Yeah, I know, our dork of a manager will never drop Abreu from the 3 hole.

Such a bad argument. If he’s good, then we got a good player for two years. Period. This is the same logic that demands we keep Robert down for two weeks in April so that we can control him through 2026. I get having some thought to the future, but having Robert that year doesn’t mean as much if we’ve lost Moncada, Gio, Anderson, etc, and done nothing to sustain our success with good drafting and development.

I want to build a complete team with limited weaknesses. That’s what the 2005 team was. There won’t be an HOFer from that team besides Frank who had little impact that year. Not much star power, but there was never an easy inning for an opposing pitcher, and there was never a day where opposing fans could lick their lips in anticipation of some sort of offensive blowout. We were solid, top to bottom.

TOR starter? Whatever. Gio could be that already, Kopech and Cease could become that. Behind them, we have some iffy ones with the always injured Rodon, the inconsistent Lopez, and the still not here and oft injured Dunning. Sign Keuchel so that behind our big three we have a proven veteran who can mentor the young ones and give us a solid chance to win every time he pitches. Totally get that he’s not the ace from a few years ago, and that’s fine. To be fair, Wheeler has never been an ace.