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Not to mention we have nothing even close to that in our pipeline... and Baltimore still isn't able to win a playoff game.

Bust has different levels for sure.

Results being second priority sure explains a lot.

Except you don't look for your 1B to be "league average". Their primary job is offense. You look for "league average" hitters at non-offensive positions. Your 1B is there to create runs. Of 1B's last year with 400 or more PAs, his 97 RC+ ranked 29th of 36 hitters. Factor in his below average 1B defense, he drops to 31st best at 1B. I mean I guess you can say they picked better than 2nd round pick Gavin Sheets, who is dead last, right?

They have done it by water carrying proxies. It is everyone else's fault, but Chris. He is the only one who knew what he was doing and he is here to save everyone.

That's the problem.

Andrew Vaughn was a consensus top 5 draft pick. Anything else is BS hindsight.

Welcome to Believe.

The idea that the reason people weren't successful is that they weren't screamed at enough is such outdated garbage and water carrying for an organization that is completely outdated and doesn't do nearly as much as everyone else does in player development and support.

At which we have been absolutely failures.

Jordan Montgomery? Hahahahaha!

This part alone even.

You do know you don't have to hold on to hurt feelings for years just because someone disagreed with you on the internet, right?

And he is far from alone. It is amazing how little we have gotten out of our player development, especially in our high offensive picks. Andrew Vaughn was a consensus top 5 pick.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ew.

Would be nice if our Pitcher Whisperer could by heard by this guy.

A 20 year old DSL pitcher was the price.

A placeholder type like DeJong is absolutely fine in a year like this where you don't have the guys in place yet, but if they show they are ready, you have no problem pushing them off to the side for the new guy.

Hopefully they really do know something, because the alternatives are either A, they are rushing him to try to make themselves look good, or B, they are too cheap to sign another fill in to bridge the gap. Either way its some more Rick Hahn stuff. Just make sure he wins the job, and is not anointed because no one else steps forward.

It almost has to be a P. Going to guess it's a DFA pick up we made earlier as we try to wash them through waivers

I honestly wasn't thinking of the cheap signings, I was thinking of the big ones that they would need to get room for Sasaki

On announced signings, but there might be more. Even so, this would be a large chunk of those dollars.

This part. I can't see how the 2nd would work if the Sox are sending their spare dollars they would use to sign kids.