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Seriously, how about not the guy with a .297 career OBP, and maybe the guy with a .380 one in the minors? Nah.

Aka Nicky Lopez.

That's what I figured.

OK he has Nicky Lopez leading off... how soon can we start a Fire Sizemore thread? Oh right, Getz is already doing that.

In the literal history of modern MLB since the founding of the American League in 1901, there are three teams to have a worse start to a season, and none has done so in 108 years. We are talking about thousands of individual team seasons to have a grand total of three total worse than this one. The 1962 Mets who own the ML record with 120 losses in one season were on a pace 3 games better than this at the same mark in the 1962 season.

Who said he bears 100% of the responsibility, exactly?

If it has been long enough to comment on... with our player development history, it is easier to assume that, and just be surprised if it doesn't turn out badly.

But it sure seems possible to go in an destroy it in a short amount of time.

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

They won't.

Getz roster building in action

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Obviously this was all expected, which is why he fired the most of the game day staff. Too bad he couldn't have done anything to fix this season at all.

So we are back to Getz couldn't have possibly done anything to make this team better this year. This is probably a good place to end this because it is one big circle of excuses.

Now keep multiplying this all over the roster, and you have 20 games lost. I would also point out that pretending that the guys who are always hurt on this team, being hurt, isn't a great excuse for why this team was bad. They have been hurt in past seasons, and they were never a 40 win team before. They grinded the hell out of the bullpen every year and it was never the worst in baseball. They never said they were going to sign a bunch of mediocre guys to improve the defense, and pretty all were worse than the guys they replaced. So while it is easy to mock the idea that a GM is responsible for his own actions, it is move after move that adds up a loss of 20 games in the standings. We haven't even gotten to the trade failures and minor league horrors amongst the position players this year yet.

Literally no one said he was a savior. You were on this quixote quest to get people to name names, and then totally missed what those names were about.

If Getz has no responsibility for what happens on the field, how exactly is he making things better?

That's almost getting the point without getting it right there.

And that he refuses to play. As for Zavala, that was a statement of how bad the Moldy signing was if that Seby's replacement level ass would have been a major upgrade for $4 million less.

So this all happens under Getz's watch, but somehow the guys who aren't here are responsible for it. You don't hear it yet?

I don't think expecting this group to be a 40 win team was at all realistic. Literally no one expected it or predicted it. Acting like this was a forgone conclusion is revisionist history

Let me put it this way. I fully believe if Rick and Kenny had stayed in charge, or if we had found a real GM to run this operation from day one, this would not be a 40 win team today.

Paragraph after paragraph of this is all someone else's fault, and even if it wasn't, it isn't really his fault anyway because it was still someone else's fault is easy to view as an apologist.

And this is exactly why you are getting accused of being a Getz apologist. Absolutely nothing is his fault, and even if it is, there is another reason it doesn't matter because he couldn't have done anything, anyway. And yes, if he can't do anything about it, he doesn't deserve the job. Get rid of him.