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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.

Great....another right hander.

Seriously. Have they not been paying attention the last two months when everything has completely gone to hell and even vaccine rollout has been a disaster. There was never any scientific projections that everything was going to be back to 100 percent normal by April or anywhere near normal. On what basis did they even make this assumption? Its like a stunning failure to comprehend even the most rudimentary aspects of the pandemic. I can't believe they ever thought the union would roll over and bail them out by agreeing to delay the season.

Harold....why did we suddenly get tapped out now when I thought after Hendriks there was at least 8m left to spend just on another SP and allegedly another 7m for a bat? How did that 15m suddenly become 3m overnight? Was it just an inaccurate number to begin with?

It also would be self defeating. We are trying to create a decent enough sized window such that hopefully in one of those years they catch a few breaks and somehow turn it into a championship. If you give up Kopech and Vaughn, you are dramatically reducing the size of the window, especially given that ownership is militant about not spending in FA to address needs. Robbing Peter to pay Paul isn't exactly a great idea for us.

Yeah that isn't a feasible proposal. If, however, out of the kindness of his heart, David Price is willing to forego his entire existing guaranteed contract and sign a minor league deal for 1 year that tops out at 1.5m if he hits all incentives, including winning the Cy Young, then it may be something we look at.

Outside of the fact that its a short term deal, Luba owned Friedman.

This group will be critical to the second part of the window.

Hopefully he can help Collins become a solid backup C.

That's depressing. We are in dire need of a good LH bat. Wouldn't even cost much either. Damn cheap JR

They still need a LH bat. Im waiting patiently for Miller. @Y2Jimmy when is that gonna happen?

No way his BA will be anywhere near as low as Grandal. Vaughn should be 280-300.