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Even then I think they tried to with Mariota. But you can look to Indy as the opposite of that. Ballard survived, but eventually time runs out and it's not easy to decide when to pull the trigger, especially if your scouts are all like "this guy is good we like him". They obviously could have made other choices. Jimmy G or Darnold or Lance trade, but no matter what people get in this mode of treating even a 3rd round QB with kid gloves where he has to be treated as the leader.

Gonna be something dumb. I'm guessing Angels.

I don't think there is any one road to making the right QB decision. Sitting QBs is sure route to success! Except we'd have way more examples of QBs who slowly developed on the bench and not just Geno Smith. Right? If Mahomes is mahomes because he wasn't thrown into the fire, there are bunches of QBs every year that enter the bench-mode. Surely more would turn out to be viable? It's all situation! Well let's let Trey Lance be the forever blaring warning sign that it is NOT all situation. The guy had the best situation in the world, had all the talent in the world, and yet it is still a high likelihood that this position is so hard that you can still be a complete nothing. Let's also gander at the Atlanta Falcons. They built up their offense. They now have a great offensive line. They invested in top ten TEs and WRs and RB. They build up their Oline. They have an offensive-minded head coach who has pulled efficient offenses out of poor QB play. And yet they timed it to have Desmond Ridder, who had time to sizzle on the bench, took him 3rd round instead of a first round QB, and is terrible. So they are all likely to get fired he is so bad and they spent so many years ignoring QB to build up the rest of the infrastructure. The STL rams made everyones favorite trade. They ignored the stupid idea to take a high QB and got a ton of picks. And they were miserable for 4 more years until they got a hall of fame coach. I guess all I'm saying is you don't make a heuristic this early. Say it's March 15th 2024 and you'll have: Fired Eberflus and hired Ben Johnson as your new OC. You splurged on Tee Higgins and sign Connor Williams as C from Miami. You get one of the washington edges. Then it's draft day and you could take Caleb Williams and Fashanu. I don't think it's obvious that you pass that up at all.

We can’t draft a qb because we need a halfback

Just a pathetic coaching staff.

I just really struggle believing in fields development when it just never seems like he recovers after bad starts. He just seems to mentally crumble when it’s not going his way in game.

Truly a joy to watch this game.

I guess it’s just kinda out of order to me. Build some chemistry and then get sent down with different guys for the latter half

Why is that?

No team can ever establish a culture in their players when the culture of the management is that of blame-shifting and complacency. That is what the players have done, and we hate the players. That's what this manager is, and we hate the manager. It's what the management has been for...ever

I have a hard time believing this. I see next years offense being about as bad as it can be, and poor offenses are rarely fun to watch.

I know we always talk about him and corey seager, but theres a lot of swings where I can't help but think of Kyle Tucker's. Not as pronounced a ted williams wrap-around as Tucker. Granted, production wise both are similar. Texas has certainly played up for Seager.

Well, the pitching team they are putting together would be one that has shown success shopping in the short term, medium FA market and finding success. Regardless of what happens, this year's FA focus should be testing the competence of that group with a number of mid-market pitchers. Ideally they find their version of Alex Cobbs, Gausmans, Desclafanis, Alex Woods, etc. But the white sox in 2024 are going to be bad, in every universe.

I’ve watched two partial games. Sadly, I don’t really know how to watch much more than “is the puck going toward the net or not” but getting better. Not sure I’d be able to tell you by end of year anything knowledgeable about Korchinsky unless he like scores a bunch probs

I do think there is something to a deal that gets you Gorman (LH power) and a Tommy Edman for a Cease. It's an non-traditional deal, but as you move around Moncada, you get a real solid 2b and more legitimate LH power (worse d, undoubtedly) Why do this for Cards? Gorman at 2b isn't working out. They have Mason Wynn arriving for SS and they have brendan donovan. I don't think this is realistic but I do think it's an interesting Kenny Williams trade.

I feel like the panic will be for the finding some of these mercenary pitchers who are playoff legends. If you aren’t trying to get a scherzer when they are available at the deadline, you don’t want a World Series, period. You don’t want berrioses. Not many of em though.

It is amazing. The most honest thing a manager can say is that they can succeed with the right players. But they all mean if they have great players and you know, that work hard. Grifol is the first that is convinced he can succeed if he just gets his old pals from his 65 win teams.

When you are old the passing of time is different. Royals were a hell of a team in the 80s when Jerry last paid attention to baseball.

I’ve done too much of this thinking. We’ll see. Again, I would still come out net positive for Getz if the cost of getting a real operation in the minors/intl is getting a bunch of old players Pedro and Jerry can be friends with. But not positive enough to succeed. Can’t think of too many playoff teams right now that weren’t trying to be good at all facets of team building,

Really hope this will be a monkey paw thing for Pedro where he gets salvy but considering how much emphasis Pedro puts in salvys leadership he completely bulldozes him and undercuts him constantly, acting as de facto manager

While I'm cautiously optimistic about the moves to bring outside talent to the farm system though its yet to truly happen... I kinda wouldn't be surprised if what happens is we decide not to pick up TA's option, and trade for Javier Baez/Salvador Perez and that's your culture shift.

onward.

lol didn't even notice

His RF numbers were fine, yet I just can't bet on a soon-to-be 35 year old who was tried for 100+ innings at first base.