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I'm surprised Merkin didnt airbrush the quote to make it sound better, since he's one of the key organs of Pravda on 35th. Dude needs to step up his state media game

Lol...TLR can't make up his mind. First it's anyone who doesn't like what we have in RF isn't a fan and now it's I know we have chicken shit instead of chicken salad but somehow we'll deal with it the best we can. Sounds like he's not a real fan to me. I will give him credit for having the unique ability to create endless PR crises for the FO. Nice work, JR. You really know how to pick em.

Is there anything at least semi positive for us to look forward to in the near term in terms of MLB transactions? Or is Hahn content to put his dick into a blender and let the chips fall where they may whenever the start button gets pushed?

Boras will never agree to this no matter what.

Who is gonna give up the pick for one year though?

Yeah that's a terrible sign that they are panicking and going to give up a big asset. Just spend some fucking money you clowns.

This team just hates left handed savages. It's mystifying and bizarre. There's always excuses as to why we can't get one. First It's we don't need one. And then when we get exposed it's suddenly a priority. And then when we still can't get one there's excuse making like the prices are too high right now or whatever. Yeah, I think we really need Colas to develop and later on, Montgomery and Kath, otherwise we can forget about a LH savage. Hopefully Sheets keeps hitting RHP well as DH.

I wouldn't be shocked if by the deadline, Yolbert is the 2B.

I'm assuming he is referring to just SP right? Not RF?

Ofcourse no one is going to offer anything for him at 16m. At this point, someone might bite if we ate half the money, but there still would be no real return and an extra 8m to play with won't really address any of the core needs. Maybe it would have opened up room for the 1 yr/6m Joc deal when he was out there but that's about it. Sounds like they will just have to hope he rebuilds his value during the season and other relievers get hurt. Settling for their 4th choice at 2B is comically bad but very much in line with this franchise's seemingly endless ability to step on their own dicks. Miller would have been nice but I understand they probably didn't want to give out a 2 year deal to a short term bridge/bandaid. And I agree with Jimmy that we need to keep Sheets at DH right now due to the lack of balance. Ofcourse, this means the very few trade chips we have for a SP gets even thinner. They are caught in a tight spot where one problem exacerbates another and there's really no good options unless u really want to clean out whatever is left of the high end of the prospect system and that would be bad for the future.

Hahn has a comfy job. He got his wings clipped by JR for reasons unknown (Harold implied awhile back something happened but didn't tell us what) but he's still cashing checks and prolly has very good job security (even if TLR stole his juice) since this will likely be 3 playoff appearances in a row and they seem to like how he performs in PR settings especially when he uses thoughtful and lawyerly words to make stupid decisions sound like they were thought out and well considered when we know it's just either one guy being cheap or another dude thinking its 1990. He does have to take the arrows in the media for TLRs stupid decisions and JRs cheapness but in the big picture it's a small price to pay for a gig and paycheck like that.

For a second there I was getting excited when I read Stone's note but now I think your post more accurately sums up the dynamics of what is really going on. There is still likely no intent to meaningfully add before the season but they had Stone put that out there to encourage fans as a way of making up for TLR's tone deaf fuck up. "They're still hard at work burning the midnight oil guys....now something may not materialize until the deadline or even till next year but they are working to make it better.....no really!"

This is promising. Maybe like someone noted they are opening up 40 man slots for an imminent move.

Meadows is worth 11.1m in surplus value according to that mlbtrade site. It would be tough to get him looking at what we have in the minors if you assume guys like Colas, Vera, Montgomery and Kath are untouchable. Kimbrel has -1 value so even if you added 6m, it's nowhere near enough and TB wants a low payroll.

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Certainly better than the status quo. I assume the price on Meadows was too high since Portillos said they were checking in on him again. I'm glad they did something at least.

This...but since they are massive douchebags its to be expected at this point.

Vs LHP 1 Robert 2 Moncada 3 Abreu 4 Jimenez 5 Grandal 6 Sheets 7 Garcia 8 Engel 9 Harrison

In the words of the great American philosopher John Madden: "Boom"

They didn't learn a damn thing. They were already sending out state media yesterday to write shit about how it could happen to anyone in the field even though Vaughn totally lacks the range and athleticism for the position and he is going to have to dive to make plays other real OFers could make without incurring those risks. The fact that Pravda on 35th was out in full force should tell you that the team remains firmly entrenched in its tone deaf echo chamber of delusion. Penny wise and pound foolish remains the order of the day.

That's not bad at all. Hopefully we learned our lesson not to play 1B in RF. Address the fucking position and stop playing games.

Maybe if he's out a few weeks they can use this as an excuse to keep him in the minors for a few weeks to "work out the rust and work on OF defense" when he comes back to get that extra year back. /reaching for a positive

A part of Jack Parkman just died.

He's at least a real OFer rather than trotting out a 1B in the OF. Obviously we don't care about defense anyway so might as well add a good LH bat.

This. Even like a terminal hip necrosis or whatever would be met with shit like "well this is why we resigned the Legend." They'll strain their AC joint patting themselves on the back for resigning UT players when TOR are signing and trading for killer savages. FML