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Good reason to never fire anyone. It could get worse. We probably deserve Musk as owner with that type of mentality.

Shades of TLR getting coaching advice last year from fans near the dugout, must have heard that story...

Creatine?

Just in time to be traded so we can save JR even more profits from 2023 in his walk year.

Middleton and Lambert are the two hot hands...but they're trailing lol. Might as well crater Lynn's trade value a bit more here with another crooked number.

Shago?

Was easily convinced Erstad had another 240 hits 40+ doubles season in him...because he checked all the grindy boxes on the evaluation form.

They would be nuts to give him Ohtani money. He walks a lot. He's an average outfielder at best. Not much of a threat on the basepaths. He was a great player for Washington, but still haven't seen that same player yet.

Obviously he's the most high risk, yet highest ceiling player in baseball (if he was at SS and not protected in RF). Even then, he's top 5-10 in baseball when he can stay on the field like 2020 and most of 2021. But the Padres have hardly "lost" money on that investment if you just go by fWAR per salary paid from his rookie year through today. What's really going to matter is if they can win a championship in. the next decade or not.

Reported for ageism to moderators. Basically, TA7 Rowand Quentin played similar number of games per year and neither one of those is/was close to being described as the franchise cornerstone and meriting a $175-225 million FA contract in 2000's adjusted constant dollars. They were both consistently described as reckless and/or injury prone. Basically the Sox went from the best in the business missing the least amount of days under Schneider to being a consensus Bottom 5 team in baseball under Hahn and various trainers like Ball and Thomas that were mistreated or discriminated against by the organization.

Why would we count those first three years when he was up and down and wasn't established as a regular? Just like TA7 his rookie year didn't have the opportunity to play the full year at the big league level. Same with. Rowand establishing himself. The point was how many games per season did they played per year when they were the established starter from the get go. Adding in the years they weren't hurt but unable to play because of the manager's decision (could do the same with Viciedo and Ozzie) tells one what exactly about their health? Pretty much nothing. By that argument...I should have screwed them all over by counting only 48 out of 60 out of 162 as missing well more than half the season (48/162) instead of giving them credit for missing very few games that year and projecting the same pace out over 162... Abreu missed none and Anderson 12/60. Just one example that made Eloy Robert and Moncada actually look better. Should I have included 2023 as well... lol? Three of those guys would look even worse again.

So he's basically five games off the number of games that TA7 plays per year and well ahead of Jimenez and Robert... okay. Similar to Rowand as well....who always hurt himself yet still managed four games per season more than Tim.

Aaron Rowand 129 GP Jose Abreu 152 gp

Crede 144 Carlos 120 Konerko 146 Dye 145 Thome 141 Uribe 134 Moncada 132-134 GP/season if prorated 2020 9/16 played this year Luis Robert 106 GP with 2020 prorated Jimenez 103 GP per season/2020 prorated Anderson 125-126 gp 11/16 this year didn't count rookie year

I can go back and compare their average number of games played during their Sox careers very easily to Moncada Anderson Robert Jimenez etc. Same with Abreu and Jim Thome. This has been much/often discussed that "old school" Herm Schneider had the least amount of playing time lost to the disabled during his tenure than any trainer in baseball. It was the one niche Sox advantage, other than the Cuban Connection. And the team record under Schneider was also well above .500. No correlation? So it's either players, training staffs, or a combination of both.

There's a completely different pain. threshold in. this generation of position players than the 90s and 2000's guys. Everyday players were expected to give 145-150 games per season... other than catcher. Like Abreu (the only exception), those players would beg and plead borrow and steal to stay in the lineup each and every day. We had/have one player like that in Jose Abreu the manager was almost afraid to take out of the starting group.

He and Rowand got hurt all the time but at least they played hard and tried to play through pain/injuries. Plantar fasciitis is no joke. The worst... along with obliques. Obviously the hamate was his fault because he was too tightly wound like Konerko and couldn't get out if his own head.

Bellinger and Wisdom lighting it up and Seiya Suzuki back in action https://www.mlb.com/player/cody-bellinger-641355

He's never been nearly as fast as the scouts rated/projected him at coming out of Oregon State.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=1&season=2023&month=0&season1=2023&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2023-01-01&enddate=2023-12-31&sort=10,d&page=6_30 Never thought I would see Colas and Alex Call right next to each other in OPS. Or Jared Kelenic #4 in all of baseball. For now...

They wouldn't take Kopech OR Jimenez or Vaughn alone...for example, for Lopez. And Hahn would never assume the risk of trading two of those three guys (together) because it would just spring another leak somewhere else across the roster.

They could never trade for him because what player would the Marlins have taken from the Sox other than Cease or Robert? Always a day late and a dollar short in these situations, like the Miguel Cabrera and Christian Yelich deals from years past when the Sox can never offer an attractive enough trade package since they need those players on the big league team to compete immediately.

From back in the 2020/21 offseason (reading between the lines, seems like this contract is more of a favor to Cousin or someone connected to him, like Norge Vera (perhaps helping him in the Sox system as a tutor/mentor) Cousin recently expressed his frustration with his exclusion from Cuba’s national team in the Olympic qualifier, U23 and the upcoming PanAm Junior tournaments. He has indicated he has asked the Cuban Federation for his release and will explore a legal exit of the country. He spoke very openly, perhaps more openly than any Cuban athlete prior while still on the island in an interview with Pelota Cubana. They didn’t give me an answer. They told me that they have nothing to do with that, that is a matter of State Security and they did not give me an answer that convinced me. So, that’s why I decided to ask for the discharge. I’m not going to continue playing ball because it’s not worth it. I have sacrificed enough to be able to get a contract; whether in Japan, Mexico, wherever. I was given one in Panama, but I couldn’t go because of the pandemic. I thought another chance was going to come to me and I got this one with the “Charros” and it wasn’t given to me. Yosimar Cousin via Pelota Cubana (translated from spanish) Cousin took a step back in 2020 and put up underwhelming numbers. He pitched to a 5.68 ERA and surrendered a robust 152 hits in 120 innings. His exclusion might be explained by this regression. It is interesting that it comes at the same time Cuba is suffering serious attrition of arms. As the player himself alluded he is more likely a victim of politics or the fear that he is a flight risk. Many might suggest Cousin’s reaction was predictable. Especially in the face of many of his contemporaries seeking baseball opportunities outside of Cuba? Other believe this is ultimately a situation of those in charge creating that which they fear? Which side do you fall on? Yosimar Cousin first appeared on my radar and in front of my camera during the CanAm tour of 2019. The lithe 6’2 right hander along with Yariel Rodriguez and Norge Vera represented outliers on the veteran laden staff. Vera left during that tour and has since signed with the Chicago White Sox. Cousin and Rodriguez formed a potent combination for the Camagüey Toros and later that year would help lead the Bulls to the Cuban Series finals. Yariel Rodriguez has since been granted the chance to pitch professionally with the Chunichi Dragons in Japan. Cousin however has seemed to have fallen out of favour with the Cuban brass. https://cubadugout.com/2021/10/18/yosimar-cousin-through-my-lens/

Why someone who's maximum potential is last arm out of the bullpen (or utility infielder/final name on the roster)...? Better to take 4 shots with $500k each on 15-17 year olds.