WestEddy

I would imagine that clearing out the international scouting department, building a new facility in the DR, adding new tech and analysis is the result of looking at what more successful teams have been doing.

They were. Getz imbued them with a winning quality that made them good pickups. Just like Fedde, they wander off the property, and the magic dissipates.

Gee, I can't imagine why they have the worst record in baseball.

I won't find any Padres' fans because I generally don't look for them. When Mr. Ishbia calls me every night to ask me about my reminiscing over 2005, he says it drives him to add a thousand new young fans a day. So, yes it does help, immensely.

Those "3rd best record in the last 12 years" banners hang forever.

I know today was all backups, but... 2018, Nicky Delmonico - LF (-0.8 bWAR), Adam Engel - CF (1.2), Avasail Garcia - RF (0.6) Antonacci and Pereira could both end up close to 1.5-2.0 bWAR. That's not great, but it's not "the worst OF in history". If Acuña starts hitting, he'll be there, too.

Thome also was named Thome, so we can only compare Munetaka Murakami to other Japanese hitters named Munetaka Murakami.

He's catching fly balls off to the left of his chest instead of lining up underneath it in front of his face. I've heard it commented (probably by Beckham) that being an infielder, that's now he sees the ball the best, angling his face some and catching the ball chest high. He seems fine in the field. A couple of mis-reads, needing to take charge and call off other fielders, but beyond that, he seems solid with the glove. I agree with whoever said in the last couple of days, here, that Acuña's still probably trying to make the things work they've changed in his approach. His strikeout rate actually isn't bad. He just either hits everything on the ground, or right at somebody in the OF.

didn't it? They had to trade Sosa to bring up Ant-man, or it all happened in the same flurry of moves.

Why Hill? League average hitter, great defense. Acuña's really the black hole on this team.

Who's 10-18?

If you take away all the tough teams they played, they had an easy schedule.

What are you even talking about. Are you also RubRub?

It's fun to pretend things nobody really said, isn't it Holden?

Here's what actually happens over and over: A bunch of mopes scream about every single move. Smart people wonder why they need the attention over something inconsequential. Move works out or doesn't work out. Mopes take victory lap, regardless, claiming they called it exactly "like it happened". You pretend I said something I didn't, then misgender somebody or claim we should all be embarrassed when a player on the Sox is recognized for doing well.

LOL. You're the guy who screams that getting data to meet a player at a new level doesn't put wins in the MLB team's win column. Or "a couple of scouts and cameras". Maybe go find all your posts that say the opposite and argue with that. I get lost over you saying anything to pretend the next FO move is horrible. This wasn't a bad process. They felt the team was too right-handed, they saw a better defensive catcher on the market, and they acted. Sometimes it doesn't work out. Looks like a cheap, non-catastrophe to me. I'm actually impressed that Getz cuts bait quicker than KW/Hahn used to.

Correctamundo!

gameday seemed to show it in the right-center gap to the wall. nvm.

following on gameday. I don't know what Colson did there, but he should be on 3rd base. Oh, and it's nice that MLB let the Sox face the 2024 White Sox bullpen.

Even crappy back-up catchers get paychecks under the current players' agreement. It certainly looks like they spent near the minimum on a catcher they had reason to think would be a good, defensive anchor. And anybody who "called" this was screaming about something that wouldn't even exist. LOL.

I think some here have thrown up June for Hays. If both Ant-man and Kelenic are tearing it up by then, who knows what happens.

If that's the case, Chris Getz just declared checkmate in, like, 3 other dimensions.

That oscillation between "JR's too cheap" and "$1m is way too much money" is why SoxTalk exists.

I think Quero might need a reset in Charlotte. I like that Romo and Antonacci had to play their way out of AAA. Schultz too, to an extent.

I can't believe this organization is so stoo-pid that they paid a baseball player slightly more than minimum to play for a month.