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The one thing I will say that I have noticed, is that Rodon does seem to be approaching games like he is going to give exactly the effort he needs to get by. His velocity is lowest early on in the game, and then when he knows he is almost done, he breaks out the 99-100 mph stuff. I can't figure out if he is trying to pace himself in game to get by this season, or if he just takes that long to get loose.

One angle that could be really interesting is Nelson Cruz. He is a DH only, and half of the AL is ready to be sellers, while most other teams have the position covered. Figure out a way to get him here, and then let Eloy split some time in LF and DH.

I am thinking something that looks like how we did with Sale and Quintana in their first full seasons as starters with us.

Someone will take a shot at him once he clears.

He needs to be shutdown until he apologizes to Jose Abreu.

They need to sell everything that isn't under contract for 22.

Can't wait to make a minor league tour one of these days.

RUN DOG RUN!!!

You "build yourself up" by pitching. Rodon hasn't done that. Just like you built yourself up for running marathon by running long distances. The point is this isn't load management, this is conditioning.

Ok, Boomer. Taking a guy who has literally never done the type of performance that is being talked about, and expecting to him to just be able to put up a full seasons worth of innings just because, isn't going to end well. He has two seasons of pitching 100 innings or more, 1 since 2018. His career high is 165 which happened in 2016. Expecting him to be able to handle the marathon of a season is unrealistic. Its like taking Usain Bolt and putting him in the marathon since he holds the 100 meter world record.

I would love to hear someone ask Rick Hahn this question.

Wow,, Montgomery all of the way up to #10.

I am going to be honest here, there is about zero chance he goes to jail. Cases like this are so notoriously hard to convict in, especially because it is the one crime where it is perfectly OK and standard protocol to put the victim on trial. Offenders are rarely charged, let alone convicted.

The Cubs should be backing up the truck to get whatever they can for their upcoming free agents. They can always try to sign Baez and Bryant during the off season just like they would have anyway. Both have already turned down long term deals worth a lot of money (though neither one at market value) so they even have some cover with the fans.

Go out and run a marathon today, and then tell me about load management.

Let me stop you right there. This is one of the absolute worst arguments to use to prop up a manager because by saying it, you are saying that you are also NOT QUALIFIED to know if a manager is good or bad. If you can't know when a manager is bad, you also can't know when they are good.

Then he didn't need to be there in the first place.

So not blowing up Yermin twice in two days, not knowing the rules, not knowing that his pitchers were tired, plus all of the weird things like the Grandal PH that never happened for no good reason, but the flag? Heck that leaves out my favorite off of the field stuff in multiple DUIs that he tried to use his position to get out of, nor decades history of racism, but the flag. lol, no. Again, no.

The only reason? lol, no. This has been beaten to death here, and supposedly as a new account, I am not quite sure how you would know what everyone here is thinking, but speaking for myself you are not even in the ballpark. The flag stuff is WAY down the list.