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he has a chronic back issue among other things. "not supposed to" happens quite a bit, it's baseball. He's a bust, but let's not pretend like he was some big malcontent. When he played, for the most part, he was a solid starter and sometimes more. I think the biggest bust is Eloy personally. A golden bat that was pretty much penciled in as at worst a 280/340/500 type that would put up 35 HR a year in the Cell with a 2-3 WAR floor. Dude isn't even replacement level and can't hit 25 HR a year.

This is probably true but the choice was to give Sheets 500 PA or Colas and they went with Sheets and let him put up another negative WAR season. So they tried to shoehorn a DH that can't hit league average who is older than Colas and can't play RF, into RF rather than just play the actual RF in a throwaway season. Puzzling.

Same s%*# that was trotted out by the diehard Hahn folks.

Sounds like a buddy buddy club in the scouting department. Maybe shaking it up is a good thing, hear me out here!

Is this .490 baseball?

whoever will accept a title bump without a salary bump. so the real good ones over there.

Getz meeting with JR:

I should get bonuses on my over under bet via my predictive posts in this thread. They have now lost 4 in a row, to fall to 69-70, having been walked off in consecutive nights by the juggernaut Oakland As. Their season is Ovah. They will avoid setting the all time loss record in the next few years because their owner isn't JR, but still. What a clown show. Wasting a historically good (and fortunate) rotation with the worst (lol) non white Sox offense is next level suckery.

While I agree that hiring a vet manager from outside the org with any modicum of success would be ideal (I was a strong advocate for Girardi over Ventura) the problem is much deeper and starts with JR and Getz.

Give Frank a cameo!

If you ever wondered how it felt looking at one of the worst professional teams ever assembled, now you know. Getz and JR really did us a great service, it's all up from here!

You gotta give Vaughn a lot of credit it takes real dedication to put -.8 fWAR after 4 seasons in MLB as the 3rd overall pick, including a career low wRC+ of 89 in what should be the start of his "prime". I'd imagine even the real busts out of that spot at least put up a few in the positive before succumbing to the reality of being a top 5 bust.

I rarely can muster up "hate", it's a strong word, so I'll just go with "strongly dislike" for that clown. All these clowns were part of the problem.

Can Frank give him his 6-4" 250lb frame? Otherwise Vargas is going to keep struggling. I hate the athletic profile that Getz keeps bringing in. Small guys, maybe a little speed, but very little in the way of long levers or explosive profiles and these guys aren't EVEN GOOD DEFENDERS!

It's crazy NU agreed to that arrangement. Looks almost like a HS field. That said, the B1G kicked ass this weekend other than the Golden Rodents so congrats to NU. Nice win for ND although most advanced metrics have A&M somewhere around a back end top 25 team a road win against a top 25 team is a solid victory. Michigan offense struggled and puzzling sub patterns. It's almost like the treated it as a scrimmage. We'll see what happens this week. FSU, lol. 2nd time they've gone from top 10 to unranked in the last 10 years. Yikes.

My season is over with an anus spur caused by White Sox baseball.

Bro I know it's your thing but how many times are you going to yell at the chef when the proprietor is bringing in nothing but rotten ingredients and the stank fills the entire neighborhood?

How you ND fans feeling about the Ass to Mouth game? My Wolverines meanwhile have a huge week 2 match-up with Texas. Hopefully we get out of the Fresno State game intact. We've already seen a pretty big upset with GT beating FSU, and thankfully shutting up the arrogant and whiny FSU fanbase that really thinks they had a natty shot had they played Michigan instead of Bama. Ha. Obviously the B1G has new members, the playoff is expanded to 12. A new era.

I get angry just looking at the box scores now. Look at those FUCKING SLASH LINES FROM OUR DH AND 1B AND OUR BIG NEW ADDITION. God damn man.

I know the rule changed a bit but any negative value vet is on waivers by late summer for the most part.

There are broken fridges with a layer of mold not scraped off since the first Bush presidency sitting on the corner with a "free" sign that are more appealing.

Under 33% winning percentage achievement unlocked!