southsider2k5

Well, I guess he will come at a massive discount at least. That's about the only good thing I can say right now.

His spending follows attendance and not vice versa. They will spend again when people show up again. It's the way it has been for 40 years. We might not like the spending, but they typically do. We have seen an attendance spiral and so now payroll is following.

So many other people have gotten grief, but this guy has never been able to get out of his own way, all of the way back to breaking his hand punching a teammate.

All this means is they wanted Dylan Cease more than they wanted these four players. It doesn't mean they didn't want those four players on their own merits. And yes, making deals where you get kids is fraught with risk. That's why you try to stack these deals with as much potential as possible to overcome inevitable failure risk.

Just because you trade someone doesn't mean you didn't want them. It may well be another team wants them more. Keep in mind Drew Thorpe specifically never threw a regular season pitch for the Padres organization.

I mean at the top of that list Moncada, Eloy and Lopez made it to the majors at the top of their game, and regressed at the major league level.

There is zero chance he gets fired in the next three years without committing a crime. Even then using the TLR standard, probably not.

Until there is a team worth adding to, there isn't much point in just "adding payroll" Outside of filling a roster with guys who can make sure you aren't harming the kids you care about, you are just setting money on fire until adding to a roster means adding important wins and not just going from 60 to 64 wins.

That's the thing I never got. If you want to be cheap, invest in things that give the most bang for your buck. For the cost of a crappy end of the pen reliever, the Sox could build one of the best farm departments in baseball between scouting and development. But we go cheap there. Sign one less crappy utility guy a year and put that money into the system.

List of Royals names post incoming in 3...2...1.......

Exactly

Kyle Hendriks

Big time Region vibes.

This would be the absolute worst way to treat this.

BUT SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!

Hahahahahahaha

That would take shame, so no.

Not interested.

Y tho? No need to start his clock before at least September.

Without ever seeing the Thorpe kid pitch, I get Jon Garland vibes from the reads. Great pitchability, low raw stuff.

I feel like the headliner needed to be a level higher, or one more low level/high ceiling guy needed to be in.

Pass

C

I will be honest, I am surprised another team didn't beat this. I probably would have went into the season with Cease vs this.