southsider2k5

So correctly evaluating Adam Eaton, Jose Quintana, and Chris Sale for trades didn't help the rebuild at all? Especially when the sold at absolute peak value on Q and Eaton for sure, and probably sold peak value on Sale (pre-surgery and gigantic extension). That isn't MLB talent evaluation? Um, sure.

They also benefited from the rebuild because they were able to find enough MLB talent to turn into a shortcut on the rebuild. Your point a canyon of a hole in the middle of it.

So the front office hired the scouts who evaluated the talent, and took the advice of those guys to deal for them. They also hired the staff who did develop them. But the front office somehow doesn't deserve credit here? Bizarre.

Verlander seems like a vintage KW move. We at least know now matter what happens, it will be a short term thing.

How many front offices out there develop talent? I am going to go with zero.

Exactly. Before they finished this rebuild, you could question this. But this front office gets A LOT more rope after making back to back playoffs, and being a leader for a third.

Giolito is going to be north of $200 million assuming his historic level of health and ability.

This can be nothing but awesome.

I think Correa going from Minute Maid to Detroit would be similar.

IIRC, the batting average is a pretty big surprise. He was drafted with off of the charts raw power, but not much else.

Can something open for 25 years really be considered "iconic"? Come on man.

But richer, so...

Wow.

When Boomers twitter.

The answer is our pitching staff does NOTHING to help the catchers by holding runners close.

Long Covid is definitely a thing already.

$ure wonder what $olution they came to with the$e guy$?

This is great to hear.

I keep waiting for him to get DFAd

He wouldn't say.

The irony is that this applies to Eloy as well. You have to be healthy to take advantage of your upside, and he still hasn't proven he can do that. Eloy repeating his 2021 performance doesn't help the team either. We can't just bank on one of these guys exploding while assuming the other one won't. when there is a plenty of contradictory evidence to go around.

Yes, I pointed out the falsehood. Have you been on a message board before? The rest of it also ignores the other part I pointed out in a different post WHICH YOU IGNORED in that this is a kid who essentially skipped the minor leagues and STILL managed to hold his own in the majors, despite having never played anything longer than a college baseball season + a bit of MiLB in his life, and not being conditioned for a 162 games yet. He has a TON of upside as a hitter, and that hasn't changed, despite the effort to focus on a couple of small negatives over his first season in MLB. I also think he may well play LF more than Eloy simply because Eloy is very regularly hurt from his incompetence in LF. Its also worth noting that if we want to focus just on the small and bad things, Eloy wasn't exactly a superstar hitter last year with his big ol .740 OPS and OPS+ of 100.