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Yeah, Eloy and Moncada were hurt last year, so they should be a net zero. Losing Cease hurts, obviously. And Robert. But Getz decided to keep the med staff (and a lot of minor league coaches). But Chris "Baseball Man" Getz completely overturned the pitching staff from OD last year (Kopech and Clevinger aside) and they're hot garbage. I fail to see why Brebbia deserved $4M (I know someone is about to blabber about Hahn, but tough s%*#, he shouldn't make the same mistakes), Maldonado getting $4M, or his other worthless pack-the-roster moves. He's burning cash on dog s%*#, like Hahn did, dumping prospects for dogshit, and didn't improve in defense like he boasted he would. And if he takes until next year to make a change, then there was truly no point to hire him over an actual baseball executive. He also decided to get a 29-year-old reliever for Cease. If Wilson isn't dominant, then they missed out on getting something else in the Cease trade.

Played for Grifol in KC, plays FASTs

Watching the end of the game last night my wife asked why they were so bad and I told her it was a combo of the owner being cheap, but the nepo-GM having a lot of hubris as he stepped into his new role assuming he could build a roster of a bunch of players that played like him, which was not a very good player.

Yeah, as a former Hahn apologist it's ridiculous to hear it get repeated. The man had two skills (in my opinion), which was teardowns and extending young players. But he couldn't develop players, sign good free agents, or trade for veterans without devastating the farm system in some stupid manner.

Yes, this excuse was used for Rick Hahn and the general response was that if it was so bad, he could just have not taken the job. GMs with tighter leashes were able to build rosters that weren't on track to be the worst team in major league history.

As someone who loves Duke Ellis, it'd be insane to have him skip AAA for anything short of having him as an emergency bench guy. The team needs to let all of their prospects go up through the normal cycles.

Can't make Chris Getz's premiere free agent hitter sit out games, can we?

I still like Jake Burger and now the thread has made me sad. Go back to eviscerating Maldonado!

Yes, someone else said the pun!

Love that Stone is like "this is why the Sox were enamored with him." I wonder who was enamored with him Steve. Say it.

And Korey Lee is undeniably our best catcher right now.

I am glad I asked!

Kevin Pillar is unironically our best outfielder.

Wasn't his third start on short rest or something insane because they didn't have a fifth starter?