southsider2k5

dont' give the rotation any ideas.

Take your own advice there.

Scholtens to the 60 day DL.

You should have just stopped there.

If someone were to tell me that we have a worse year in 2025, than 2024, it isn't hard to design scenarios where that happens. The COMPLETE lack of front end pitching is a great place to start. Especially when Robert gets traded, it is also not hard to imagine the defense and offense being worse as well. I know we are counting on reversing some of the bad "luck" from last year, but I can't help but feeling that a lot of the bad luck from last year was just a historic collection of bad players being bad, and the models not being able to calculate an outcome that far off of "normal" bad.

You, of all people, said this? After you LITERALLY shoehorned the Dodgers into this conversation about Ky Bush? hahahahahahahahahaha

Today we are paying for a complete lack of player development ever since the last time we had a top ranked farm system. Ordinarily, most teams can back fill a roster that will lose 110 games without needing help from the outside to get up to that few of wins. The Sox don't have that right now.

So what did the Dodgers do to cover for this lack of pitching? Did they trade young prospects to get more middle relievers?

And we got zero for him.

Hey, I'd be happy with .500 ball after the last few years.

And this is the real answer as to why they aren't playing.

Guess who hit last spring and emerged as the starting catcher? .129 .250 .290 .540

This part right here. NONE of the guys we signed this winter will be around when this team hits .500 again, let alone when we might start to think about the P word again. It would be different if we actually invested in real flip candidates this winter, but we didn't. We invested in aged trash. Outside of injury, or ugly prolonged Maldonado type slumps, there aren't realistic scenarios where most of this guys provide any value at all to this franchise other than filling off days and injuries. Odds are most of these guys will have in the system won't amount to anything anyway, but the possibilities are way higher than any of the dumpster dive signings from this winter. Plus those guys actually have 5-6 years of control, vs zero for the rest. Even if you one of those three ends up as a bench player, that is SOMETHING answered for this franchise going forward.

That this is a team coming off of a 121 loss season and that it is more important to evaluate the players you have right now than to waste time on "flip" candidates who have no actual value like we did last year.

On his next team, after having been traded for a 35 year old middle reliever.

If he didn't realize this when he took the job, he deserves what he gets.

Something, something eight or nine good players...

Is this a real thing or an idea?

Just like they did with two of these guys last year.

Which is way more likely. They have yet to figure out the balance between panic and taking the pain from the moves they have already made to get past it without making it worse.

Trying to figure out why the difference between his and Bush's situation that brought your original comment. It was a distinction for a reason. Why?

Has that ever stopped Chris Getz before? Gotta dump em all!

They are rebuilding, but are also trying to not be the most embarassing team in MLB history again. They are trying to have a foot into both worlds. The absolutely blew it again last year, and don't want that mess again.