WestEddy

I have no problem admitting when I'm wrong. "This bum sucks donkey dong because I said so!!!" Isn't really "evidence".

I don't think you really know the meaning of the word "hyping". If a team has 3 players more noteworthy than the rest of the team, they are colloquially known as the team's "stars". Why don't you smoke a dube and calm down?

Oh, now it's "on the cheap!!" says the guy whining about paying Pillar $1 million for the year. LOL. But anyway, yes, the guys they signed to fix and flip, they're important to continue seeing if they can fix, then flip them. I'm not sure why that makes you cry. It's an opinion. It's okay for other people to have them, Really.

You guys have ODed on the Kool-Aid so badly, that you think somebody not having a rage tantrum over this team is "hyping" this team. LOL.

Yeah, I'm here. I would like any of Getz's moves to pop. But so far, beyond the Cease trade, and to a much lesser extent, Mena for Fletch, none of it moves the needle.

I root for a baseball team. I don't feel compelled to pretend to be "subjective" by screaming about every single innocuous move, some of which, actually make sense.

And you're obsessively reading my posts. LOL.

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I'm not sure what you find "insane" about getting the guys you acquired to train up and flip actual playing time so you can, you know, get them working on improvements, then trade them.

Well, I haven't been screaming for any moves. The people who have been screaming for "accountability" are now screaming because Lenyn Sosa and Fletch were sent to AAA to regroup themselves. It's just a change of scenery. Everyone will be okay.

Nope. You're wrong.

Not being a whiney man-baby isn't "carrying water".

He catches the ball.

Fan favorite, Roland Hemond, was hired as Orioles GM after the 1987 offseason. He assembled a team that started the 1988 season 0-23. Hemond stayed in that role until 1995.

I get tired of the "he won't be on the next good team" complaint. They have to play the games on the schedule. I'm not sure how putting a first year rookie back at AAA to work on things is "panicking". This team is not going to be a 20-140 team. Once they stabilize, win a couple of games, and they're not a daily national news story, maybe then Sosa, Fletcher and Colas will get a full 2-3 month shot to see if they stick.

He has hit at every level. He is supposed to be better defensively, but he's exposed in CF. Probably pressing, too.

No, they weren't going to contend, but they still have to play the games. Fletcher has upside, and Barfield probably saw him as a young-ish outfielder a team would let go with a logjam.

And Fletcher's a work in progress, too. They shouldn't have signed Maldonado. I call Ortega and Grossman AAA depth, which they had to tap into with 3 key injuries. No, Paul DeJong isn't a guy who puts the team on his shoulders and carries them for 3 weeks. But he is a bounce back candidate who can field his position.

No, I'm more of a "reality apologist". I don't really look at ERA. Gowen's age appropriate for high-A. His WHIP is 1.043, he's striking out 10/9 and only walking 3.5/9. If Mena can't get his BB/9 number down, he won't have success in the bigs. I understand the frustration. This team sucks. It's not true they got nothing of value for Bummer. I wish they still had Mena, too. I still think it's too soon to label the trade a complete fleecing. People are proclaiming this team a complete s%*#-show where the true prospects shouldn't be brought up to this clown car to just fail, but then we proclaim Fletcher and Sosa as failures because they faltered in this clown car. Pick a lane.

Jared Shuster looks like he could grow into a lefty long man role, and Riley Gowans is doing well at Winston-Salem.

Cristian Mena is walking 5.9/9. He's still a work in progress.

Oakland still hasn't figured out how to get Alex Speas to consistently throw strikes, and Jose Rodriguez has faltered to a slash line of .179/.309/.321 at AA. They're "prospects" like Zach Remillard is a prospect.

At this point, I feel that Soroka, Flexen, Fedde, Keller, Clevinger, Brebbia and Leone are very important parts of this club's future. Get any of them tuned up and trade them. Sosa, Colas, Fletcher, Lee, Nastrini and Cannon will have 2 solid months of major league time in August and September.

I suppose we'll have to wait for Monty to start annihilating AAA pitching before we worry about that.