chitownsportsfan

I feel like you are the official hype man for those leagues.

Right, I was trying to do a sloppy cost benefit analysis. It's not an easy position hahn is in. of course he made it so fuck him.

Maybe. Same boat as Jose, B- prospect at best. Might as well just hold Lynn honestly and maybe he pulls some crazy shit like 120 innings of 2 ERA that helps get them to 85 wins.

I mean, maybe it's sacrilege but if someone wants to take Jose off our hands, for like a B- type prospect I'm all ears. I love the guy, I will take a picture with his statue when they build it, but if the team is under .500 and he's really thinking about retirement getting an asset for him would be a huge win. The guys I see as having value to trade are in order: Gio Liam Jose No point in selling Eloy low, same with Moncada. Nobody wants Grandal without picking up huge money. Engel is more valuable here than the C prospect he'd get. Vaughn is untouchable given his service time and future value. Ditto Robert and his contract. The young pitching cost controlled you need so that means no to Cease, Kopech and anybody else that emerges. nobody wants pollock. TA untradeable for obvious reasons, mostly that he's too good of a player. So who's left here? Leury? Ha. If you DFA him nobody would even bite. Some of the relievers? Sheets? Burger? Nobody wants to give up anything for them. Your big pieces are Gio and Liam. Jose could possibly get you a back end top 150 type. That's pretty shitty but that's where we are at. We're onto the "hope and wishes" part of the season. Not even June yet.

I keep hearing oh yea everybody else in the division sucks too not time to panic. Come on. After losing Tim, on paper this is a 78-82 win team. I don't care how bad the rest of the division is someone will win 85 wins. Right now we are not even CLOSE to that sort of production.We just lost basically the only guy playing well in the lineup. We're an injury away from a starter from being a 75-78 win team. If by the 2nd week of July this team isn't 5--10 over I'd probably blow it all up. If you're sitting at 36-43 on July 6th there's absolutely zero reason to expect a turnaround.

Bruh ngl I can't stomach most the games let alone checking fangraphs to measure the damage. This is a bad team that doesn't deserve fan interest right now.

Yup, was going to mention that as well just didn't. Playing him out of position where he's -10 runs below average is a great way to crater his bat's value. At 1st he's probably league average. I was happy he didn't fall on his face in LF last year but at worst I thought he'd be a part timer out there and split 1B with Jose. Instead he's even seeing some time in RF, which is just bonkers.

I guess, hasn't proven he's a 2-3 WAR player yet. Has to stay healthy. That said, yea, if he stays healthy he's probably an average regular right now.

farm system hasn't produced a single average regular in the last three years that wasn't part of a big trade, that failure coming home to roost now.

Giolito is traded 100% of the time by a smart club non Yanks, non Dodgers edition. Get him out of here.

Another pyrric victory.

Well the stats bear it out if you want closure.

Fire the entire training staff.

I'm not even really upset and I'm just sad and let down. We waited so long and it appears half the guys we were banking on sorta just suck or are not the version we were banking on. Hate to go all Jack here but it's really sad how few real assets remain in the system. It's once again a stars and scrubs team and the stars are hurt way too often.

Historical offensive futility. We and the Mariners are the same club.

I'm about at my limit. Bad baseball is like chronic pain and it slowly eats away at you. Ain't gonna let the Sox fuck with summer.

No

Us fans don't get paid to make the decisions. All of us are part time GMs at best. Of COURSE we get to change out opinions on moves after the fact. We're not getting fucking paid to make them at the time we are fans! I was lukewarm on the Kimbrel trade but now in hindsight I'm horribly down on it, even if Madrigal never produces another MLB hit (he's got what, 2800 more to 3K?). We're allowed to consider more data. I've changed my position on TLR for example. Only a fool stays steadfast in opinions and beliefs that have been proven wrong by the passage of time.

devers is so fucking good.

beauty and the beast there in the good seats behind the right hander's batting box.

foster looks great.

the ideal 2nd leadoff guy -- TLR

vaughn has one of the most technically perfect swings you'll ever see when he's on.

BOOM

looking offspeed with two strikes, genius approach.