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One of those investments is a foundational investment in the advancement and development of all players in your organization for years to come... the other investment is in Reese McGuire. I don't think they are all that similar! I'm also incredibly skeptical of this portrayal of Reese McGuire, great manager of pitchers. In my experience, back-up catchers that are elite defensively and GREAT at managing a staff don't play for four teams in four years getting signed for just above league minimum at start of the season. I'd guess he's pretty mediocre there, but maybe Korey Lee was terrible... not that I'm one to give this crew the benefit of the doubt.

Tucker has played 89% of the games since he came into the league and only missed significant time one year (2024). I wouldn't call Tucker injury prone in the least bit. What's weird is you've always been critical of Tucker, you want to take a 24 year old with eight good weeks in his entire career over him, but yet you insist that you like Tucker. It's OK, we all have our guys we like and dislike.

Yeah, your dislike of Tucker has always been odd to me. He's a top 10 player in baseball since he came into the league and he's about as consistent a player as has existed in the game. PCA is a boom and bust player, and it's not even like his boom is higher. Tucker was on pace to be worth 8.5 WAR in 2024 before his injury. Tucker was banged up all of last year, played through it, and he was still a 5 WAR level player.

The kid is uber talented, and an elite of elite defensive center fielder, but he had a 72 wRC+ in the 2nd half last year. From June 1st through year end, 100 games, he was worth 2.5 WAR which almost all came from his glove. He basically was a 4 WAR player after the hot start, and 95% (3.8) of that WAR was defensive. From July 1st (around the Colson call up date) on, Colson was nearly twice as valuable a player (PCA 1.5/Colson 2.7) and PCA played like a slightly less than 3 WAR player.

I'll take Tucker over the next 5 years over PCA 10 times out of 10.

Yeah, I'm certainly not mourning at Korey Lee's white sox gravestone. I just truly can't understand paying reese for 4 weeks to also be bad. But he's probably less bad, which honestly starts to make sense since that's the moto for this year. "We stink, but we're probably less bad!" The high fiving over his signing comment is ranking up there with the turnstiles breaking from fan overload when the Sox called up Elko.

Still not understanding how 1.2 million for 4 weeks isn't a lot to a cheap ass organization. My guy, no one is high fiving anyone over a Reese McGuire signing. My goodness you have some crazy takes.

How many 16 inch softball championships does McGuire have under his belt? Zero. Checkmate the Widge.

No, by my reasoning this team is cheap as f*** running historically low payrolls after adjusted for revenues... so saying 1.2 million for 4 weeks is nothing doesn't align with the way this team behaves. They had to trade a player to sign a player.

Reese is now the 9th highest paid player on the team. How can you say they're not investing anything?

The irony is you not realizing that a World Series winning team giving the league minimum to a player who was out of baseball for two years prior shows that investing anything in the back-up catcher position for a team with established catchers is relatively meaningless... and that Korey Lee wouldn't hamper anything if we played a few games instead of Reese. In fact, because the sample is so small there's a reasonable possibility that Korey Lee would actually produce better than Reese.

Lee stinks, don't get it twisted. So does Reese. I just don't understand why you give a guy a guarantee 1.3 million to come and catch for four weeks. The value add there for a back-up catcher in the first month of the season is basically zero. Go spend that money somewhere else.

Roch has a higher defensive floor, but Lebron has elite defensive upside so I wouldn't say Roch is a guaranteed better defender. This is baseball and projection. Lebron has louder tools, period. Lebron is rocking a 16.7% k-rate so far this year. If he stays around that in conference play, his k numbers will be pretty much in line. Agree Roch still in the lead.

This is a signing to maximize the margins (if you trust their evaluation skills, which I don't!) for a team that is competing. What a waste of 1.2 million for a team where every single dollar appears to be cherished.

If Lebron keeps the strikeouts down in SEC play, I don't know how you don't take a deep look. Vahn Lackey been flying up draft boards as well.

Its a disaster to get in and out of there 8 times a year. It would be a disaster 81 times a year.

Wade > Bene

Great game. Great tournament. It gets better every iteration.

This is why I hate people participating in practice and spring training

Sorry, born wrong word. "From" there as citizens would be. What was wrong was him saying it was a distant cousin.

You insinuated that there was some distance connection. Nothing distant about being 50% something.

Huh? You have to have a parent born there to participate.

These aren't your kids.

It's great for the game and for growing the game. Every country but the US loves it too. I'm a big fan of the WBC, I just wish they moved it to mid-season or something so pitchers could actually participate without the dread hanging over their head.

Why would it be grounds for a grievance? The Raiders disclosed the timeline and knee issues with Crosby. The Ravens agreed, BUT that doesn't mean the Ravens waive the right to put him through a physical and fail him for the exact issues that were disclosed. It looks bad, but it's within the rules so no grievance. I think it's a shitty move, but it's obviously the right move for the Ravens if they think they're team is better. I think Hendrickson has a lot more risk and there's a real chance he could be close to washed after a year or so. I think the Ravens clearly viewed him + 2 1sts as a better path forward, but Crosby is the better player.