chitownsportsfan

Our offers are a lot more competitive when we are fishing in the dumpster. Go figure.

Manfred:

Jesus christ please don't ever negotiate anything for me.

The dude's lower body is transformed from when he came into the league. Every pitcher is an injury risk but with a surgically repaired elbow and his power and length he's as good as bet as any to give you two really strong years before you really gotta pay him. We're talking like 360 innings, 10 or so fWAR and that all important ace come playoffs.

As I said at the time. He had like a 99th percentile season. I'd love to keep watching him on the South Side but the smart thing to do is sell at absolute peak value. Of which he is at. He has much more value than Cease. Cease is a nice pitcher. Garrett right now is one of the 3-5 best pitchers in MLB.

I wish I could place a prop bet on negative fWAR for this latest dumpster drive.

Who are we hiring for win prevention coach?

We're aiming for 150 losses.

Yup. It's scary. It's like he's using this forum as a sounding board for the worst ideas to come out of this FO.

Exactly. There's good points made on both sides in this thread, but your point stands alone as the most relevant. We're so far away from where we want to be.

There's a lottery? WTF. Did not know that. Well f*** my plan then.

He'll go to LA and put up a 5 WAR season. Book it.

Pros: outside org hire: Cons: almost everything else. Willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But we've hired patsy managers over and over since Guillen and the one time we went all against that with TLR it was also a disaster. We've shown no ability to hire a manager that is above replacement and that can work with the FO closely.

I think it's up there somewhere in the top left, that red shifted star.

Who?