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If Vaughn is an "add on" in a deal, we had better be getting Ohtani or the like.

If it was A freak injury, we wouldn't still be talking about it. But it has been a serious of not just bad luck, or random injuries, but stupid injuries and stupid plays. I don't care how "fast" a guy is, if he has the defensive IQ of a brick, it doesn't matter. Those other guys aren't getting hurt in the same manner of Eloy's injuries.

Well, that's it, its over. Gordon Beckham didn't get better. And Avi did get better, it just took leaving Chicago to do it.

And at the top of that list is a guy who got robbed of pretty much all MiLB experience, yet is going to remain the exact same player he was as a rookie. For some reason, he can't get better.

The problem is that he had a zero OPS when he was out for 100 games this past season because he hurt himself in LF.

I think your risk level is a lot higher than what you think it is based on his first seven years. I can't see him miraculously getting and staying healthy from here on out.

This. There is no doubt that Rodon had an incredible year, and has incredible upside. But, again, this is a dude who is ALWAYS hurt. He's been in the majors 7 years, and in 3 of them didn't even get to 100 IP. In 7 seasons, he has qualified for the ERA crown 1 time. Once, in 7 years. If you back up the truck for the guy, you are pretty likely to get 100 innings of Carlos and 100 of whatever triple A pitchers you have to cobble together to fill the rest of his innings. Even in his best season ever, he still missed around 10 starts and only got to 130 innings.

So 45 gets his defense ideas from Scooby-Doo.

I would quite literally pay money to go out and drink with Hawk and listen to his not for TV stories.

The players blinked.

So far I have spent my spring training money on a family outing to Hadestown, and am working on spending the summer baseball money on a trip to NYC, and probably Hamilton.

That is hilarious