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they could have just non-tendered him, right?

After 44 games he has 0.3 fWAR, behind Luis Robert, Paul DeJong, and tied with Yoan Moncada. He has a 99 wRC+, which would ALSO be tied for 2nd best behind Pham and tied with Robert. It would be third best if you include Moncadas limited ABs. This is both a sign of how embarrassing this team is (only 1 player is slightly above average on offense), but also I'm just pointing out how absolutely silly it is to have a roster this bad. Teams routinely can find guys on the margins who perform better than what we have collected. Any GM worth a damn can scout and scrape along to find bullpens and offenses better than this. For example, Deyvison De Los Santos was rule 5 drafted by the cleveland guardians, then didn't make the team. He passed through waivers and went back to the Diamondbacks, where he hit 14 home runs as a 21 year old in AAA. The perfect guy to have space for in this dumb org. He was just traded as the main piece for AJ Puk. DiPoto found two decent bullpen pieces from waivers in Snider and Voth this offseason. Bailey Horn, whom we sold, has been bad but better than many of the options we kept playing. Nationals get Eduardo Salazer from waivers in June. The Nats spent a total of 3.5M, nicky lopez roster spot, on Derek Law and Dylan Floro who have been awesome. Add that to a Brebbia and it's a not embarrassing bullpen that allows the young SP to flourish. Instead we made sure we had roster spots on the 40 for chuckie robinson, nicky lopez, ...f*** I'm not even going to list allt he trash that they wasted time on. Just as a summary that you'd expect from a team that is only going to win 30 games: They don't know who is good in their org and they don't know who is good outside their org.

oh sorry *Getz

If we are this strapped for cash I’d point out Hahn could have easily gotten out of Nicky Lopez after the trade and saved $4.3 million.

yeah, that's true. Still - Michael Busch is putting up that 122 OPS+ level that would be expected of him, and they didn't have a spot. They self scout so well though.

Impacting him how? He'll just cut payroll and organizational spending to account for the lower revenue. How that affects winning is secondary.

Bob's was still very optimistic on Crochet to the dodgers.

He's checked out. Like everyone says, no one wants to win more than him, but he wants to do it his way. Well his way is the operating word, and it's much more powerful than the "no one wants to win more than him". His way includes wanting people that adore him and are nice to him, #1. That includes being extremely obedient, #2, to his very restrictive and dumb rules. He is probably sad about this season in the same way I am sad that Furiosa, a mad max saga did not do well at the box office. It does seem like a shame, on the other hand, I never saw it at the theatre and it didn't make me change anything. But if you ask me about it, I'd say, yes I'm sad it didn't do better.

I mean what we are doing makes sense we just have very inept people cosplaying as baseball executives and scouts.

I’d try to get Grandal as coach if he hangs it up this year. Team played a lot harder when he was here, and he largely dragged them to the playoffs. He’s smart and been around a while.

And a lot of pitcher and catcher prospects so…not what I’m seeking

None of these trades is giving me much fomo. Which is sad because we really needed another org to give us a shot in the arm. I’m sure Chris will develop a contender from scratch.

He can only handle thinking about one team. So if he wants Cards to get fedde, he'll mak eit light. When it's focused on the team trading, he gives way too much. It's why he was a good gm...

Was going to say we needed another arm but then I saw your text at the bottom.

Insane they even needed to sign him to a contract. Should have just made him hourly.

I was thinking last night how boring each game had become. First five innings, good SP. I’d be thinking “hey maybe we can eek out a 1 run win” They come back and we go down a run. I go to bed and think “now they are gonna score 6 runs in the 8th and 9th” I wake up and we lost 10-2 or something. Rinse and repeat. f*** Jerry Reinsdorf.

Wolkow with a triple (also 2 Ks)

Hoping he can make it work in the bullpen at least.

I would love to have crochet locked up

Well known college player George Wolkow.

Nobody cares about prep players going overslot, nobody here is mad about going overslot for bonemer and larson. The yankees sixth rounder was a draft eligible sophomore at LSU, so it makes sense why they would need to overslot. Peyton stovall was only 7k under in the 4th, and again, their fifth was a draft eligible sophomore, so they can go back to school with leverage. The white sox picks were college juniors, and they also damn near paid slot to a college senior. Those kids do not have the leverage others do, and I don't think the sox played this budget well. You are right about the cardinals though, I posted that earlier.

I think for a team that consistently fails to keep its farm depth at an acceptable level, they are not maximizing the budget to bring in as many strong players as possible. I think Shirley is fine at finding talent, but no scouting director is perfect and not pushing to have that extra $260k that went to college juniors in 4th and 5th rounds could have well been packaged to get another top 250 player or prep player they liked. And after the last 10 years, I really don't want to hear push back on how some little things aren't big deals. Because not being able to execute the little stuff like International classes one year, or maximizing the budget in a draft class, or selecting the right 40 man both adds up and shows you are unlikely to execute the big things. Let's just say I'm more optimistic on their trend of investing in tall, lower slot lefties than leading the pack in moving college talent down to their draft pick via overslotting and it paying off.

You last week: You were confused about how they spent all their first 10 rounds given the selections! Then you found out that it was on overslotting for Saucke and Antonacci, and are tsk tsking anyone that points out its odd that the sox continuously overslot their college selections while other teams often don't. Stupid sox fans, taking media rankings over the word of our very talented front office.

Yeah that would be interesting if every team was paying overslot for their college selections and not just the white sox and As, the premiere organizations in sports.

You are right. Sorry. Sox had 20 picks to select players, and all were alive. It's a big win. Who are we to judge.