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Of course he didn't want to get sent down. However I'm sure he was stunned and elated to get the call as he wasn't the most obvious choice. It more enjoying the fact he got the call more than he was sent down. I'm sure he absolutely loved the experience.

Yes it sucks to get your time toward FA started and to get that MLB check and per diem.

That's the job of sports media. Get everyone riled up for ratings.

Fair enough.

I think they will need a catcher as well. It doesn't bode well for a catcher to miss significant time for knee issues then back issues in consecutive season. The problem will be to find a quality catcher willing to play 50-75% of the time.

Of course they do. However most of them incur some type of interest and you're right it's usually for business growth not payroll.

You would be really selling low and get almost nothing for Grandal and Moncada. Players returning from injury and having poor seasons don't have much value.

Good in philosophy but the only old players you are trading is Abreu, I guess Graveman and Hendriks may fall in that category as well. The veterans are signed for a couple more years to coincide with the contracts of young players such as Robert, Moncada and Jimenez. Yes they can acquire bullpen pieces after trading bullpen pieces but why take the chance they won't work out when they already have them? They are attempting to win now and they won't be making any mass player trades. They may trade one or at most two but why weaken the team at this point. Didnt we have this discussion during the rebuild and your position was sacrifice everyting to each season as this season is the only one you can win?

I'm game for this attempt.

No. But the franchise value is until its sold.

If they are trading bullpen pieces for other bullpen pieces what's the point? They may not win this year but they won't next year without some talent in the pen. With the ones you're trading the o ly one left is Bummer The good two way players aren't usually on the market even for WS contenders at least nothing close to MLB ready.

Young fast 2 way players aren't on the market. They aren't as easy to find as most people on this board think. If you shred the bullpen like that who do you replace them with? There aren't that many internal options as we've been witness too.

Let them revoke it. They are so many high quality competitive trams that I'm sure another league is just waiting to start.

It's tough to find backups that excel at both. If they did, they would be starters.

Franchise value and wealth are 2 very different things. You can't spend franchise value until the team is sold. Franchise value does nothing to help a team win.

The top expert trainer may not know anything about baseball. He probably did all of this and is in great physical shape. Problem is it doesn't appear to have been tailored to baseball activities. Probably more just to increase power and mass.

This will never pan out the way you think it will. No owner is going to spend their own money on the team payroll. It's all relative to the revenues.

Possible, but who would have been a better replacement? Everyone want Burger gone due to defense. Is there a better option?

At Bob's Country Bunkhouse!

Is it trying to swing less hard or have the leg injuries decreased his power? Tough to generate power without leg strength.

Sociopath? That's a little strong. He is too loyal to his employees according to most on this board.

It happens all the time. Bit as someone else said it's usually in specific circumstances such as older player, injured etc. It just so happens that they have so many injured players that it's become nearly a team wide order.

It appears so. Although last year, Engel, Robert, Grandal and Lynn had significant leg injuries.

They all do something. Nobody neglects the workouts. I just wondering what they did.

Grandal admitted that the issues in the Spring robbed him of the base he usually has going into the season. My guess is that he is missing so much time now because they realized he needed to rebuild it. Who knows with Moncada.