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I’ve watched enough baseball to know teams go through funks and not lose my shit at every one. They have a couple days do figure it out.

Don’t bother fighting the spiral

Never has good as it looks, never as bad as it looks.

He was definitely out

No

Karinchak kinda rules

Going into a 2020 season you expect to be competitive banking on Andrew Vaughn and Zack Collins (in addition to also banking on Luis Robert and Nick Madrigal) is a bad plan. Bringing in a guy that would block Andrew Vaughn long term (ahem, Nick Castellanos) is a bad plan. Encarnacion and Mazara has been a miss, but the process was right.

There is certainly a reason the 2020 first round pick is on the team, and probably poised for a big role in the postseason and the 2016 one is not.

I think I’m more comfortable putting Lopez out there for a couple innings in the playoffs than cease at this point.

I am FAR from an anti-vaxxer, but I don't think I'll be first in line for a vaccine that was developed in 8 months

With hindsight, I think I would say there is quite literally no one I would have rather hemled the thing. The conversion rate on their young acquisitions is pretty absurd. The only real misses they've had are Collins and Fulmer and getting borderline major leaguers out of the 10-11 picks really shouldn't be all that unexpected.

It's just super bizarre, to me, to frame this as an argument against organizational loyalty as opposed to the opposite. Jerry could easily have brought in some other fresh faced dipshit spewing sexy driveline buzzwords that would have done nothing right. Instead, for whatever reason, he trusted that his guys had learned from their misplays and figured out what their strengths were and the benefits of that are right in front of us.

I don't get what is so hard about admitting Kenny, Hahn and co. did a brutal job in the early tens and have since turned it around significantly, to the point they probably have the best long term (or second best) outlook in all of baseball.

Plenty of teams have traded guys of similar caliber and got diddly squat in return. Getting Eloy for Quintana in itself is a huge display of scouting and patience.

Let's see how flu + COVID season goes before we make any assumptions.

It's a good thing it doesn't really matter

Why should Lucas Giolito be forced to pitch on extra rest because Trevor Bauer is a weirdo?

Uh, yeah

That was a fuck you fastball

Dylan Cease hasn't exactly locked in his future if you ask me.

If Marshall can't pitch, I would think Crochet could replace him, though I wouldn't want that

Bummer is apparently in Cincy

This has to be the closest thing to a guy debuting in the majors since...?

Oh wow. I thought this was a possibility but in, like, a normal year.

Not sure why I thought this thread would be worth clicking