Balta1701

ah, I thought you were indicating that Harrison went 2nd.

I know how these Mocks work, so yeah not expecting multiple teams to pass on a QB, but worth asking - where did Maye go?

You said they were in free fall. How is this a free fall? They have been doing the most impressive hovering I have ever seen. They aren’t amazing without a QB, but they are the absolute definition of solid. I cant cite a more consistently excellent coaching job in the NFL. Maybe Reid? They need to take a QB gamble if one becomes available because the last one didn’t work. But there should be no negative words said about that coaching job by anyone, and like 25 teams should dump their coach for him if he’s available.

And they still win 9+ games every year. That alone is a testament to their coach. They have no QB, but their coach is so good they are competitive for the playoffs every single year. Because their coach is so good, their GM can’t get in a position to draft a QB. I will take that coach and be ok with it? Free fall for the White Sox is a .377 winning pace. Free fall for the Steelers is a .588 pace?

This might be the literal worst take I’ve ever seen. A guy who literally can never have a team go below .500 no matter how bad they look on paper and you have negative words to say about him. I think every 5+ win team makes the playoffs if he’s their coach, Pittsburgh has about that overall talent level.

You and I have very different definitions of Free-Fall.

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Yeah if the Bears believe for some reason Maye is the guy, don’t bother with trades, draft him.

I think it’s entirely possible. But who knows how this QB market will shake up before the draft, there seems to be way more demand than available QBs, and Pittsburgh will be in a position where they can’t reasonably expect to draft a starter. Bills just played “Don’t stop believing’.”

Burdi was at least drafted as a reliever, with the idea that a reliever would save their precious 2016 season, outside the top 15. He would have been a challenge to turn into a starter. Probably 29 teams wouldn’t have drafted him in the first round had they thought there was no chance of him starting, but they didn’t understand how smart Rick Hahn’s 2016 strategy was. The record of the 2016 team is a true reflection of Hahn’s quality. Crochet, to me, was Hahn and Williams saying “we could have kept Chris Sale in the bullpen in 2012. Because we didn’t, we got a 2nd place finish in 2012 and a borderline HOF starter. This was clearly a mistake so we need to fix it to get our 2nd bullpen lefty.”

I feel bad for Crochet because a professional organization would have tried him as a starter from the beginning in ‘21. Instead he got the Hahn clown show. You don’t draft a guy in the top 15 and treat him this way, this guy with his arm could easily have turned into a top 10 prospect in all of baseball after 2 years in the minors, but Hahn needed his relievers. And if he gets hurt, then there’s time for him to recover before he has to hit free agency.

What drives me nuts is that they should have been stocking the beer league team the last 2 seasons. They had no depth and imagined they were competing, they needed these guys more then!

Fwiw, Yoshinobu was at 6.29 K/BB last year.

So you’re saying they will sign Scott Barlow next? Because they’re not wearing Royals jerseys.

Mitch Kupchak comes to mind.

Although the Halos paid a high price for those two, it wasn't out of line with what other teams were paying for pitching at the trade deadline last year. Giolito was outperforming Lynn, so he returned more than Lynn last year, for example.

Straight up, answer this. The Raiders offer 3 firsts including this year, 3 seconds including this year, and Maxx Crosby for that pick. Do you say no?

No idea what the actual offers will be, but I wouldn't trade away Williams unless I got a haul like that.

At least in my eyes, the harder question is what to do if someone offers you an insane deal. The Raiders offer you 3 firsts, 3 seconds, and Maxx Crosby for this pick. Thats a half insane but also plausible offer (Crosby today said to trade him if they change coaches). You have turned the 2023 first pick into 2 pro bowlers, 4 first round picks, and 5 second round picks. Was it worth going with Justin Fields and risking using the franchise tag on him? Thats tough.

If they're "Top 100 types" by the trade deadline, that could leave Baltimore feeling they have more resources to use and make them more willing to make a move. This is a potential additional benefit of holding onto the trade deadline.

I don't know what the deal was, but when Anderson suddenly started to fall apart in April 2022, that was right when the whole team collapsed that year. The game where Anderson had 3 errors early and where I started joking that it looked like the Mon-stars had stolen the team's baseball abilities - Abreu had an error, there was another play on the IF that could have been an error, then suddenly the whole team collapsed into an 8 game losing streak that they never recovered from. I don't know what the deal was, but boy that stretch sure seemed like there was "Way more going on than we know about". That was the stretch where LaRussa decided to put Leury batting 3rd because "he looked good in batting practice" or whatever. It all looked like a mess and Anderson was a disaster at that point, somehow this all fits together in a way that I never figured out.

Are you crossing it up with the part where Yermin Mercedes said he was retiring? That's what your words sound like to me right here?

Overall yeah, I don't think I'd like this one. For the White Sox this would be a move that, if it didn't work out perfectly, would be really expensive. Put this in with Moncada's bad back and you might as well throw in the towel on spending for a year. Maybe the Giants get away with this because of their coaching staff? If they do, then they have one valuable staff out there.

These were all posts before you decided to start complaining about how unfair the site was being to you by having too many negative people. I will grant you that "what are you smoking" was posted before these, but that poster didn't come in and say how unfair you were being to them with all these lines. I'm part of the negative crowd. I responded to you with points about the catcher, about the other positive players they lost, the possibility of guys getting hurt or traded. Am I a drama queen spending 3 months whining?

Banister played for the Royals from 2007-2010. You seem pretty offended by people not being positive, which is exactly the point. If you don’t like that people are responding with reasons why optimism isn’t justified, then come up with better reasons. The only one ranting about how unfair it is that people are responding to you with their opinions is you.