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Going into next year, I think we will still see: - Trash Charlotte: I think it's completely fair for Colson to be in Charlotte, I also think it's reasonable to start in Birmingham. Pitching wise, Charlotte may have significant improvement in Mena, Nastrini, Cannon, Thompson, Bush, Eder and the returns of Burke, Martin for a bit. Offensively, it will be boosted by probably Ramos/Jose Rodriguez, but the outfield / corners are gonna be ptthpb. - Good Birmingham: To start off the year, this offense of Montgomery, Quero, Veras, Elko, But also likely to see Jacob Burke instead of Yolquei (whom I forgot existed) and Chapelli, who has recovered nicely Pitching wise, I'm a bit optimistic still in group that will obviously include some of the AAA talent that you'd hope perform better in AA - Good W-S Promotions of some good college players in Sprinkle and Calvin Harris, returns of a likely stuck Michael Turner, Brooks Baldwin, Gladney, and Camilleti Probably the return of Schweitzer, start off point for Pallette, Noah Schultz, Carela, Sommer, Vera and Mason Adams - Mediocre Kanny Maybe the college hitters like Nishida, Park, Felix, (perhaps calvin harris is still here) buoy enough offense for tough jumps like Wolkow, Burroughs Will have the starting points for Taylor, probably Keener?, Oppor, McDougal return (maybe) , LaCombe (unless he has tjs) - Good ACL Kinda optimistic after this DSL year. All eyes will be on Magollon, the arrival of Nunez and Flores Pitching had decent years from Chirinos, Jeremy Gonzalez and they actually got 5 IP innings in a lot. Luis Reyes arrival If I'm getz, I sure sure would maybe re-think your pitching coordinator / coach and get someone to try and jumpstart these near mlb guys.

amazing after Colson's "slow" start he is up to a .915 OPS in Birmingham, which still features a completely good .200+ iso. I kidna thought when I went to go look it would just be .800 or so boosted by his crazy OBP, but the late power has been more than I've realized/followed.

also this was helpful,

ok, buried in a link in that fangraphs post above is this: So you can't pull anyone back, so putting someone on waivers is truly a different move than before. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/qa-what-the-heck-did-the-angels-and-some-other-teams-just-do/

Isn't that BUrger's own volition? Getz decision there was not to include Burger in Schaumburg.

Err, I guess are all waivers irrevocable in the new CBA or something and so it's more interesting?

I thought the standard was pretty much everyone goes on waivers. Is this because they are all on the irrevocable waivers?

There was a time where I was intrigued, and that was 2020. We had no minors, just the schaumburg site. We needed to use Dunning, Stiever, Crochet for meaningful baseball, and brought up Madrigal, Luis Robert, *Collins*, for meaningful innings. Considering the circumstances of coming up from a place that had no competitive baseball, I was impressed at the performance. Maybe that environment he had more control over and oversight and is a sign of things to come. But he certainly didn't carry those lessons forward to the next years. What we got from call-ups continued to get worse. There is a severe lack of talent in the system, its' true. It's also hard to point to something we are particularly good at developing, as we once were with durable pitchers who have strong command and cutters. The prospects we have seem to be just pure talent plays. Hard to say based on Colson we teach patience well, he's a unicorn. Hard to say based on Mena we can teach harnessing multiple breaking pitches well, he's a unicorn. He's been in this position for 7 years. He is very affable though, he'll be less annoying to listen to then Hahn. He was a good listen at soxfest.

Project Birmingham was a 4 week thing last year, vizquel was several years before that. The entire Birmingham barons franchise was not project Birmingham. This year is not project Birmingham.

Add to that: ”man I really want to buy this 2 billion dollar asset but he just signed a 3 year $4 million dollar deal with a GM!” This honestly feels like “trash the team, exploit the worse fan support to make the relocation credible, get sweetheart lease, sell team and steal the premium paid on the lower land lease”

Sure, Getz didn’t have the power to show that he may be able to be a good director of player dev.…. but doesn’t that make him perfect to be in a higher level role with more responsibilities he didn’t hold?

Rhymes would have seen a functioning org. And Getz has not. Rhymes would have worked with talented people he can bring along. Getz has not. Your only qualification for Getz is he’s not responsible for everything wrong. That was also Hahns playbook.

Don’t care. If we are gonna suck ass give us back our Lucas.

Im surprised there isn’t even a public posting for the position yet.

The problem is Getz is going to be the one answering these questions. No chance Jerry rolls out onto the stage and mumbles some grievances.

I don’t care what Jerry’s rationale is. B>W has provided me more entertainment in the last decade than that piece of crap.

Bring him home

What’s your rationale?

luckily shane riordan knows it was bad and won't tell!

what a sad sad sad sad sad sad sad state of affairs. I can't really cut down any more than I already have. I only paid for one game this year, as part of a tee ball package. I had a 20 or so game package just last year. Seems like 100 years ago though.

I kinda wish they’d keep everyone in bham and give those players a taste of competitive baseball. Mena is gonna be graduating to the milb equivalent of a retirement home in CHA

Coulda had $50. Getting the medical report which states the bullet is lodged in the persons leg, and was not in the seat behind, makes it impossible to believe it could have been anything other than fired by them or near them. I still don’t buy a cover up. This person may have been able to ditch the weapon as the security said the team didn’t know she was shot until she was in the ambulance. Probable she could ditch the weapon since apparently she was walked out.

Wow found the job application for President of Baseball Operations this is damning

I’m excited by his year, but he needs to cut down on his strikeouts. His year in bham is a little SSS, some weird stuff. Next year, if he can increase BBS and cut down Ks, even marginally, that will be the indicator. That said he hasn’t seen increase in k% as he’s been promoted.

I’ll take the warehouse and jobs over the decrepit gambling site personally.