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Yep. Long wasn't gonna work for a loser organization AND be low balled at the same time, especially when his stock was high.

Weak

Nice!

Losing out on Quatraro hurts. They really have to land Long or things will get even more toxic.

Great hire for them. Meanwhile we are still a clown show unprofessional organization.

Yep. This is really bad.

Perhaps FO cancelled SoxFest because they knew JR would overrule them again on the manager hire and just didn't want to deal with any additional fan anger.

That's the issue though. I fear we would be blowing our wad at one spot and then they'll go super cheap to address SP, 2B etc. I'd rather have Conforto on 1 yr deal in LF and add a more premium 2B or SP rather than 100m+ for Nimmo.

If we have 15-30 to work with...they can add Conforto on a 1 yr prove it deal for LF (Nimmo will be too expensive) like 1/10 and you can definitely add a 5th starter for 8-10. Problem is there is still a huge hole at 2B and no way to really address it unless you are gonna move Eloy for Chisholm and then have Grandal DH since he can't catch anymore.

Long is prolly the best we can hope for since I don't see JR signing off Espada or Quatraro.

Wow....im shocked you got any kind of decent halfway substantive response from them. I'm sure there's alot of good people who truly want things to be different and want to do good, including RH, but between "budget constraints", archaic infrastructure, and ownership meddling they are kind of caught in between. I thought I read somewhere that Boras said Hahn wants to modernize the organization and really bring it to the present so im sure he is frustrated too not just marketing people. Instead, he's stuck being forced to trot out there and try and put a lawyerly and thoughtful sounding gloss on bullshit decisions. He doesn't have any real juice, he's just a glorified white house press secretary pretty much. I know people say if that's the fact you should just quit but realistically how many of us would give up a million bucks a year or whatever he makes cushy gig where you have great job security and no accountability and all you have to do is take arrows in front of the media and spin other people's decisions. Very few of us would let that job go, even if we were only the GM in title only. Nothing is going to change until JR is gone. We have to just accept that making the playoffs is basically the ceiling and they can even f*** that up too even when it's seemingly a layup. There are no championships or parades or any of that nonsense. The window is just about playoff berths that's all...nothing more and nothing less. If they are lucky enough to win a series here and there with this group it's gravy but there's no real title window. At least you got away from batshit crazy neighbors so take whatever wins you can get even when they aren't on the baseball field. I imagine Chicago weather is much worse than Nashville though. I only went to Chicago once and the weather was awful. Ofcourse to me, 65 degrees is cold so what do I know.

Perhaps your neighbor is the one who should "stop blogging" lol

I'm sure it won't sting at all to watch Preller win the WS.

At least he's a good teacher.

JR doesn't have any sense though, that's the problem.

Yep. Get another lefty to play LF too.

This is what we deserve.

Extreme savagery!

Dammit.....so we can't even buy him out even if we wanted to?

IMO....for LF they are more likely to go with 1 yr low risk Conforto prove it deal rather than paying Nimmo long term. Colas in RF obviously. If buy Pollak out at 5m rather than pay him 13 or whatever to be the 4th OF, that's a poor use of money but since this team has obtained a very advanced Ph.D in the poor use of money, I can see them just sticking with him. Now that Eloy is mashing as a DH, there should be no issues with the whole "I have to play LF in order to hit well" BS. He's the DH...period. I agree that even though he hit well this year it's time to let Jose go and slide Vaughn into 1B full time, unless there's a trade for Chisholm. I think the rotation is mostly fine. There's too much bad money tied up in the pen but there's not much we can do on that. Keep Moncada. Yes he had a terrible year, but once TLR left he seemed to improve somewhat and even the relatively powerless YM from last year was still a 4 WAR player with high OBP. He's a savage I'm not gonna throw him away for one bad year. Plus we should sell low and we need some more time for Montgomery anyway. At worst, he's a bridge until Montgomery is ready. At best, he is back to being a very good player and 4 WAR guy. There's no good answer at catcher. If these guys aren't being made miserable by a douchebag dinosaur and dont have another plague of injuries they still should be a 90+ win team.

Cleveland....feel free to start losing games at any time.

Any chance we could put a picture of TLR, RH, KW and JR in the banner and put "The soreness will escalate" in there too?

Isn't this savage like 4 years young for AA or some crazy number like that by age (according to baseball reference)...he had a grand slam a couple days ago and now another homer.

So much for "he only hits well when he plays in the OF"

MOAR winning please K thx