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I'm not interested in trading any of the present core either. That they had poor resource allocation and didn't address their actual needs isn't good cause to start shipping out key personnel like Giolito, Lynn etc. They need to dig themselves out of the hole on their own. If they drown, they drown. Maybe burning a whole year of the window in his old age will cause JR to see putting his trust in a washed up loser with prehistoric baseball beliefs was a bad idea.

No. They need to sleep in the bed they made. I'm unwilling to sacrifice anymore future assets.

Absolutely. What are they waiting for? Haven't they already gotten the extra year of service time?

Velasquez solid outing so far. Some run support would be nice.

It's also been much more exciting than the dumpster fire MLB team.

That would be a very good ROI for a 2 million investment. Give him a month in AAA and bring him up. Then sentence Harrison to Siberia and profit.

I'm irritated that FG has him at a 45. Dude is a savage at the plate and has a big arm in RF.

Why can't he play 2B?

Colas adds a double to his earlier HR. 3-4.

Savage!

Yeah I was about to say there's no way it's real but then I remembered Tony is a gaffe machine.

Yep. Scapegoating Leury doesn't meaningfully change a ton. The main issues that people have bitched about all offseason haven't been addressed and surprise surprise they are biting us. A lack of true LH savagery. A lack of meaningful SP addition. Penny pinching at 2B. Garbage depth. A dinosaur managing who has no meaningful connection to these players compounding the problem by openly giving the finger to modern baseball analytics and concepts and instead managing like it's 1990. Poor allocation of resources with overinvestment in the BP which is high risk given the great degree of variance year to year and surprise....guys that were good now suck.

TLR isn't going anywhere. JR saving face > preserving any semblance of the "window" Sucks but true If this team even gets to a single ALCS in the next few years it will be a minor miracle given all the dysfunction and issues that refuse to get addressed. So much for "multiple championships"

Yeah I want to see how they are going to waste two great pitching performances in a single series against a bad team. Lulz

This is actually a pretty decent rule of thumb.

I love how during the middle of the "championship window" im fixated on the daily minor league thread because there's so much that depresses me about the MLB club.

Can't rely on him at all. Literally everything bad that can happen to thus team is happening.

LMAO get this geriatric clown out of my face.

He needs to go up to AAA for a couple weeks and then take over for Harrison. Yolbert already has a good glove and at the least his OBP should be good enough even if the power isn't there at a MLB level.

Leury at 3 and Vaughn not in the lineup is absolutely inexplicable.

Harold needs to tell us what happened between JR and Hahn. He alluded to it in the past but never went beyond very vague mentions.

Yeah we need to find a way to steal this game and get to 7-4.

They didn't want to guarantee the 2nd year. Also, they hate savages. It's like they get a sick kind of enjoyment out of struggling against even halfway decent RHP.

4.5

Savage!