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Poor KD. But there’s a slight difference between leading your team like Soto at age 20-21 to a World Series title versus joining a pre-existing, ready made operation already at the summit in GS. That and the fact that having baseball’s very best player in Trout doesn’t even guarantee playoffs nor even a playoff series victory even once.

It’s a deliberate exaggeration to provoke. But that’s how this organization ended up throwing out McGuire’s fWAR and 45% below average hitting for a Seby patented inevitable regression accompanied by poor defense and game calling. It’s how we disregarded Brian Anderson’s great defense/lousy hitting combination for Mackowiak in 2006. (Well, the fact that Ozzie hated Anderson personally didn’t help him much.) The same front office keeps repeating the same mistakes decades later. Did we also not learn how not to overspend on bullpens from 2000-2008? Not really, The Koch Experience wasn’t enough, because we went Dotel/Linebrink then Robertson then REALLY went insane the last two years. And here we are now. Stuck in the middle with you.

And there you have it. John Danks, Dunn, Grandal, Hendriks…there’s always going to that built-in excuse about adding one more year, like Machado and then the reported Giolito extensions as well. Think back to not paying Maggio and C-Lee after 2004…or not paying Buehrle in 2011. Otherwise, we’re almost always limited to three years, like Keuchel and Lynn. Or at least “almost always,” with few exceptions. The other remarkable one would be Konerko, for obvious, well-covered reasons. You have all the internal extensions, but all those except for Moncada are not threatening to blow the budget sky high. So, if you think quite carefully, you can see why Giolito and Tim Anderson will both be gone eventually. Out of those five bolded names, how many would JR, Hahn and KW undo if they could? Konerko would be the only one to stand…in the same way JR’s only choice for manager could be LaRussa.

Great, math jokes.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kelenja01.shtml Kelenic at 495 ops. Menechino will fix him. Or f#%k him.

Probably because there’s not much to poke fun at yet…and Kelenic/M’s are doing well, also.

Maybe it will pick up with all focus on Dodgers/Padres despite the huge differential in the standings, 12 1/2, when it was tied about a month ago. Actually, the biggest concern now is Clayton Kershaw’s troublesome back again. Fortunately for LA it will be at Chavez, which is somehow fitting with Vin Scully passing away this week and the funeral this weekend. Also, Nationals did the obvious thing and sent CJ Abrams down to the minors despite a 230ish average.

Then you destroy all of TA’s value. It’s why Strasburg or Corbin ultimately didn’t go out with Soto…and there’s only 3-5 teams who could handle the financial hit, so you’d basically be surrendering all your leverage. Then you’re going to end up Burger and Mendick? Sosa? Popeye Rodriguez? Pushing Montgomery and Colas up next year?

If we do wRC+, we get Leury and Grandal as two of the ten worst in baseball (280). #272, Grandal #276, Leury #266 Jackie Bradley, Jr. #258 Moncada #235 Pollock #234 Cody Bellinger #225 Engel OPS is virtually identical…and, fwiw, Reese McGuire clocks in as more than 45% below average for his part. Six Sox players this year who have been particularly awful and sabotaged the rebuild in different ways…but there are four chief culprits as we know, and Leury simply can’t bench himself.

Phillies actually trying to make the postseason, firing managers and benching or DFAing unproductive hitters…

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/sports/baseball/dunn-a-mighty-free-agent-has-struck-out-with-the-white-sox.html Well, first of all you need to double Grandal’s negative fWAR to account for differential in games played… Then, if you take out the positional bonuses for catcher vs. DH, it turns out to be very even…not to mention he’s (Grandal) basically being paid 2-3x as much for his numbers since only 211 at-bats. For example, $1.825 million per extra base hit. That’s the net worth of the average American in around the Top 3-4%…for lifetime wealth accumulation.

.159 vs. .190 BA Grandal wins .292 + .277=.569 Dunn wins .286 + .232=.519 Grandal loses 36 vs. 12 runs (all prorated) Dunn wins handily 79 vs. 66 hits, Grandal wins 6 vs. 16 doubles, Dunn wins 4 vs. 11 homers, Dunn wins 37 vs. 42 RBI’s, Dunn wins 57 vs. 75 walks, Dunn wins 116 vs. 177 k’s, Grandal wins 10 vs. 27 XBH’s, Dunn wins Less than 1 1/2 seasons of productivity vs. 2 debacles/disasters? That got KW kicked up to the front office as a reward… Salary, $12,000,000 Dunn vs. $18,250,000 Grandal 60% of Guardians’ entire payroll to Grandal/Keuchel ($36 vs. $60 million), and not counting Leury, Kelly, VV, Pollock, Lynn, Moncada, Jimenez, Hendriks, etc.

That he was going to look like a dumbass regardless so better to just punt and hope teams in front completely implode during stretch drive.

They are like the Guardians and Mariners right now.

Drury missed second in two days by about 6 inches of vertical. Didn't Hernandez have just one or maybe two after the trade last year?

You know Anderson would go to LA or NY hit 20-25 homers with 30+ steals and finish Top 3-5 in MVP voting.

More like Common Core.

5-4 with ten more to go. AL Central spot should be booted if winner finishes at .500 or below.

99 with boring movement.

Robert had no shot at that one.

That was not the swing of someone just trying to get on base.

Who have one of the 3-4 best one run records in the majors.

You can't have 25% of your payroll I'm the bullpen. The rest of the AL Central bullpens combined are less expensive.

Colas looks a lot like Yoenis Cespedes in terms of physically...