JoeC

Bullpen spending.

Also... what's confusing to me is that, based on the assets we gave up (Gio + ReyLo), this is a "retool" trade. Trade away the rental players while presumably holding onto players under contract for next year. The return indicates that this is a "rebuild" trade. Retooling trades should help you within the next 12 months. The returns here, at best, give you an obligatory big-league-bench-sitting or mop-up innings / spot starts late next year. So the returns, while on the surface they seem nice, just don't make sense.

I like the return, on the surface. It's nice getting a top-100 prospect with upside. However, this just adds to the glut of 1B / DH players in our system. If he pans out with his bat, we've just traded for the privilege of seeing the next out-of-position-RFer in 4 years (after 2 years of trying to make his defense "work" at the big league level). Depth is nice, but it's useless when it's as one-dimensional as our "depth" is. You have to be able to have capable players at every position.

Can we please add a crying reaction, please, mods?

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Plus I get the impression that playing Remillard would help set a culture of accountability and meritocracy. He seems to have done everything right, including inexcusibly playing RF.

Starting to feel like that was our 2020 season sponsor.

I guess they think we're at rock bottom.

Rafael Furcal?

Kopech showing he wants to stay on the south side.

Giving credit for a shitty job done = holding them accountable and making sure they know they failed. 70% done is an F in the baseball industry. “Credit” can be good or bad. In this case, it is bad, because the result was only 70% successful.

So who gets credit for getting the team close? Also, please note that he got the team 70% there. That's not good enough and is a failure, so I don't want you to get the idea that I'm giving him a pass. My point is that he took a shitty system, tore it down to the studs, and got the team temporarily into respectability. If he doesn't get credit for that, who does?

Kenny inherited a core of valuable assets and a decent farm, and he did a remarkable job of stretching that window of contention. Hahn inherited a disaster of a core and a barren farm, and I will at least give him a credit for getting us to the table (2020 / 1st half of 2021). He's since turned it into a bigger disaster than he started with, but IMO he did get us about 70% of the way to legitimate contention.

Like this classic SNL sketch?

We’re really good confidence builders. We can get teams into challenging situations, then fail to execute / encourage the other team to come through. a nice team to face in September as a low-pressure playoff tuneup

Because we’re dumber.

Burger still hovering around .800 OPS right?

Shut Crochet down. Why rush him back at this point?

Looks like Lynn is staying put.

I’ll bite… who is saying that…? And prefer you whiff as opposed to what other outcome?

Efficient.

Enjoy! Doom and gloom, pessimism, etc., aside, there’s not much better than taking a kid to their first ballgame.

Nvm - contract signed after 2019

They signed him to that massive extension right away though, basically.

And Moncada.