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  1. Okay, I will admit that. Therefore, all you can do is hold onto him in the hopes that he will regain some value. He was under control for two more seasons, I don't know why this FO or fanbase felt pressured to finalize a trade.
  2. Although I am aware that he was only recently hired, he has really underperformed in his scouting work under Hahn, and his work after being promoted to me has been extremely subpar. Though it might sound crazy, I have already completely lost faith in him as general manager. I do not think any of his offseason moves will pay off. This, in my opinion, is what occurs when you hire someone who performed poorly in their prior position and, for some reason, you give him a promotion.
  3. Where it is really going to hurt is if the Padres are out of contention and they decide to flip Cease at the deadline. Because I think they easily beat this return
  4. I voted D. For one of the best pitchers in baseball, this is a pretty pitiful return. SD didn't give up any of their best prospects. Although I would have shot higher for Jackson Merrill or Ethan Salas, it is almost criminal that they walked away from the deal while keeping Robby Snelling and Dylan Lesko. Since Cease was our best remaining asset, this trade hurts. Next year, we would have been in a situation where we would have needed to move him, so I could see us having to make do with this kind of return. Right now? He still has 2 years of control. I am aware that the market is currently soft, but given the circumstances, you are not required to make a deal. I don't understand why we didn't just wait until the deadline instead of taking this poo platter.
  5. Whatever Tim Anderson ends up being at least there is potential that he can rebound and have a good year. Dejong is just awful. Which has been the theme all offseason we replace guys who had down/terrible years with awful baseball players. So where is the improvement going to come from? Tim Anderson, Grandal, etc were at least bounceback candidates I am not saying I wanted them back but at least last year as a fan I could tell myself Grandal and Anderson are going to hit because they have their entire careers basically. Dejong and Maldonado are never going to hit or be anything except marginal players. In fact if either of those guys even ended up being a marginal contributor that would be a huge positive as far as I'm concerned I don't think either are going to have positive wars or be in the lineup when the season ends.
  6. I am so tired hearing about the clubhouse. Maybe he was a problem, maybe he wasnt. Regardless this team is going to lose 100 games. Whether it loses it with a good clubhouse or a bad one quite frankly I don't care and neither should anyone else. What this team goal should be is not trading or signing glue clubhouse guys on shortterm deals who can't play but finding talent who are bounceback candidates. Those guys are often going to have stigmas attached to them whether it's something they did off the field, or not being a great clubhouse guy, or coming off a terrible year or even some combination on the three. People are acting like we can sit back and be choosy at who we offer shortterm contracts. We are like a homeless dude thumbing our nose at someone offering McDonalds demanding to go to In'N'Out instead. We are going to lose 100+ games and are openly in a rebuild we are not that attractive of a destination either. There is a decent chance if we offered 1/5M he goes to Miami anyways. The issue for me is all offseason I didn't see us targeting the guys we should.
  7. I said at the time that Tim Anderson option wasn't some sure thing last year. I am not surprised it was declined and basically had to accept crumbs this free agency. He was historically bad last year and isn't really a SS anymore. I am torn though because 1/5M is exactly the type of deal we should have been doing ourselves and really didn't sign much in the way of bounceback candidates. Whatever this year is going to suck regardless
  8. Hey at least teams acquire washed up veterans who used to be good, Getz is acquiring washed up veterans who were never good. He's cornering the market!
  9. Gord Ash and the Blue Jays front office at the time steadfastly believed that KW sold them damaged goods. If memory serves they even tried to have the trade rescinded.
  10. Its not a bad trade but we would have gotten more at last years deadline.
  11. Can he hit enough to start? I don't really have high hopes for him as a premium prospect. I'd be fine getting him back but to me his upside is José Iglesias and his sort of floor is John McDonald. To me the big issue with Ortiz isn't the player it's how others view him. I'm fine with taking him back but not as a headliner.
  12. The major difference between Ortiz and Madrigal is there is a bit more size to his frame. I am not a fan of either player but there never was any power potential in Madrigal. He is and was a midget. I think he was 5-6 I pointed out from day one he was never going to hit for any power. Expecting power from a guy with his build and height was stupid. Ortiz has never really hit for power in the minors either so his power is definitely a concern as well but Madrigal approach at the plate is much more advanced he makes way more contact and better contact he just will never hit for anything other than double power because physically he is over-matched. Which is why like I said at the time when we drafted him he would be a wasted pick. I am not surprised at all how he turned out.
  13. Ha. If this was what was being offered good on Getz for saying no. He can't control if the Brewers want to bend over for the O's. It sucks the Brewers came in and took the O's scraps and 25+ year old prospects but nothing you can do. Personally, I have always thought we should hold onto Cease until the deadline. That is when you have the most leverage and with the new rules the worst move Getz could make at this point would be to trade Cease because clearly if that is the return for Burnes then there isn't a market for starting pitching right now.
  14. We should be trading for and signing high upside players with an eye of flipping them later. Filling the roster full of hot garbage is not how to rebuild in MLB. You don't rebuild through the draft unless you want to wait 4-5 years. You rebuild via trades.
  15. Yeah I see it playing out the opposite. Angelos already has the team pretty well stripped down for payroll. He was one of the cheapest owner in sports. Hedge fund managers don't treat sports teams commonly as their other investments. They treat it as a luxury yaht or sports car. They make their money other ways and view sports teams as expensive toys
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