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And now is the time for a guy like him to take up the OF, not when he hits the majors. If you KNOW there are guys in front of him, let him learn a new defensive position in the least stressful position possible, the minors.

For real. Run him out there for six weeks and see what happens. If he is Carlton Fisk out there, reevaluate before opening day.

I keep telling myself to think a couple of things. #1 it is obvious the dude didn't get coached AT ALL last year. Not only Caleb, but the entire team. It is uncanny how much improvement the Bears squeezed out of the exact same guys from year to year. #2, The Bears have seen a crazy amount of injuries this year. The WRs, secondary. and LB positions have just been decimated with injuries. For Williams specifically, about the time he seems to get chemistry going with someone, they get hurt. The improvements we saw over the season from Buden, Loveland, and Odunze, and Williams ability to find them make me think this will continue in the right direction. #3, get The Bears a real pass rush, and keep Caleb out of desperation time for every game, and this team is going to be unreal.

I am about 98% sure that they gave Caleb a directive this year that if he isn't 100% sure on a throw, throw it away, because anytime it is a 50/50 throw, it goes into the sideline.

I doubt him running around the OF would be good for all of the pulls he seems to get.

For me personally this would be awesome. Braden Fiske on the Rams Dline went through my high school.

Dude is a replacement level LF with minimal power who can't play defense. He is worth nothing. He's the guy who signs for a million or two when everything falls through.

I went back and looked it up. -0.2 fWAR in 3 seasons for basically $43 million, including that 0.2 last season, even while playing about 400 games in those 3 seasons. $43 million for a below replacement player. Sounds like a great justification for walking papers to me.

Which means they clearly signed him to keep him, because the market hasn't really changed.

Again, should that be worth 10 million dollars to Chris Getz, because from what we have been told, this is where the market has been for a year now.

But teams refuse to give value for the option, and have for a while now.

But wait, we can pick up his option again!

Which is exactly why repeating the cycle is such a waste.

Yet teams haven't valued him that way.

This is the first time I can recall making a case for Benny, post signing.

Essentially it is. They seem determined to get "value" for Robert, even though for years now they haven't agreed on what that "value" is. I think of it this way. Two months ago, you could have let Robert go for almost nothing. Then you obligated yourself to $20 million for him. Now, if we were willing to pay $10 million dollars we could supposedly have Chase Petty, a Comp Pick, and maybe another post TJS pitcher. If you remove Robert's name, essentially we would be paying $10 million for the two players and the draft pick. That's 12 years of pretty highly thought of pitchers, plus the 72nd pick in the draft (including the extra draft cap space of around $1.15m based on LY). So is that "value"? Isn't that about what we turned down in July, and not too far off of what Cincy offered a year ago? If that has been his worth for a year now, why did we bring him back knowing what his worth has been?

Which is what makes this song and dance so weird. What we know so far is that apparently no one was willing to put a decent return out there for Robert. We pick him up again on a one year option at 20 million, and again put a price tag much higher than his injury history and contract status valued him a few short months ago, and around we go again. Why? So we can get to July with him probably playing around 60% of the season, another stretch injured, and maybe a month where everything went right, so that teams can again value him as an injury riddled rental? We have done this for YEARS now. Why?

At the end of the day he is owed 2/30. Release him like a real big boy organization and move on.

His destination is LF for the Sox.

125 PAs in half a season sounds about right.

The biggest problem is even if the HeGetzUs crew is right and is some wunderkind, Jerry was still lurking to TLR his GM of the Year. If we have already seen a move happen because Ishbia actually cares about winning more than something that happened 40 years ago, things are already better.

Not in NEARLY the same volume.

Which of course got put on Robert being lazy, and not the hitting coach.

That's a bit different as you can actually SEE that. It isn't something made up to fit a narrative. If Robert looked like Lance Lynn and had the same physical breakdown injuries, sure question away. If he made boneheaded plays on a regular basis, again, question away on his IQ. As it stands the dude is absolutely ripped and plays some of the best CF on the planet. He's even played while OBVIOUSLY injured. Did anyone question TLRs work ethic when he couldn't be bothered to know the rules? How about David Wells 50 pounds overweight with back injuries? Sure didn't stop Wells from shittalking Frank.

It's been a source of irritation for me for a while. It's wild how every Latin or minority player gets their work ethic questioned after injuries, but a the overweight white guys get to run their mouths about them, even when they are injured.