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Get a LH bat. No more excuses. Get one. Period.

Its unlikely he can outlast aging curves beyond his current deal. And even if he is kept by JR for emotional reasons, that doesn't mean he will be getting consistent ABs....esp with Eloy and Vaughn in their primes.

Very good. Once he comes in, he can spend 2022 in the minors, and start in LF in 2023. By that time, Vaughn will be at 1B and Eloy can be the DH. Plus a good LH bat with reported 55 hit and 60 power is great.

Problem is even if its for a couple weeks usually Eloy takes awhile to get going after coming back from minor injuries.

TLR says he likes having a switch hitter at 4. I agree that Moncada at 2 and Eloy at 4 makes the most sense though. But with TLR presumed lineup they can go RLRLR for the first five spots

What about Vaughn?

How does the math work though assuming Mendick is also on the roster? Pitchers- Giolito, Keuchel, Lynn, Cease, Rodon, Kopech, Lopez, Hendriks, Bummer, Heuer, Crochet, Marshall, plus 1 more BP spot (13) Position Players- Robert, Jimenez, Eaton, Moncada, Anderson, Madrigal, Abreu, Grandal, Vaughn, Engel, Lucroy, Garcia, Mendick, Collins (14) Thats 27...not 26. And even that assumes there is only 1 more BP spot. I get the feeling it may be more.

Dude he is likely to start out in Triple A.

Trade him for a lefty bat and no I don't care if there is no room in the lineup for one. Find room.

Yes this is true but if Jose keeps producing and since he is a personal favorite of JR, I dont think he would be going anywhere. The lineup badly needs a couple legit LH bats. Colas in LF would be great but there's no room, esp if Jose isn't going anywhere.

Could that explain why we aren't in on other players cause alot of money is being spent on Colas? I have to wonder why Colas would sign with us though, if Cespedes is supposed to be on the fast track to being our RF in 2022.

Still right-handed tho

The more interesting question to me is when you are going to change your screenname to Mr. 3000?

Is there a stream for this game?

Nice hit Blake

Hoping to see Rutherford show some promise. And yes, a strong spring by Collins would be great. The power and is there, just needs to make contact. I'd really like to see him grab the backup C job.

That group will power the second part of the window hopefully.

Its not an issue of excessive confidence or ignorance its an issue of the FO telling the fan base "ok the rebuild years will be really hard and we won't spend at all but when the window opens we are all in to win a title, anything less will be a disappointment" and now the window is here, so yes people will be disappointed with merely an above average performance compared to the rest of the league. Thats not what was promised. I want what was promised. Spoiler: It wasn't 87 wins or merely an above average team. Its time to produce. I dont want to hear about how there is a mismatch between our expectations and expected outcomes based on statistical models. Our expectations are reasonable because that was the social contract that was entered into. That the ownership and/or FO may not have kept up their end of the bargain is hardly good reason to change expectations and in fact this would incentivize reprehensible conduct. I'm going to be beyond pissed if it turns out this is an 87 win team. That would be a disaster of biblical proportions.

Very, very few people will be satisfied with 87 wins, and even 91 wins wouldnt exactly be much to write home about.

Its up to Eaton to stay there, though. If he isn't an OBP machine anymore and 2019 Moncada shows up, I bet he will be back at the 2 pretty soon.

Lol. I find it odd that Nightengale would say something that could create a firestorm. Isnt he the teams handpicked media mouthpiece and isn't the relationship essentially a transactional one where he's a cheerleader and/or puff piece writer and/or team fed disinfo specialist in exchange for getting good access/scoops. If so, what is going on here? I dont get it.

Maybe chance for Collins to DH vs RHP in the beginning to see if he has any value?

Ofcourse JR wouldn't share it with his senior staff. He knew from the start they would resist TLR just on the merits even apart from the DUI so if they learned about it, RH or KW would likely leak to the press in order to create a PR storm that would have torpedoed the hiring. Obviously, JR did not want to get out maneuvered so he no doubt had to keep it to himself. Pretty sad and pathetic.

These certainly might be secondary reasons why they added Rodon and left DH open but it still ignores the bigge$t rea$on.

Salary is prohibitive even if LAD eats alot of it.