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Yay?

lol that's one of the craziest things I've ever seen. The pitch hit his bat knob and goes right to 1B for the out.

Has he even pitched in the past week?

When did Trevor Megill start throwing 101?

Slippin' Jimmy's back at it again

Even though Abreu has hit over .300 since the ASB, his wOBA that time is just .340. He's been a glorified singles hitter in the 2nd half. I don't think you can bring him back next year unless it's for a very cheap price.

Yeah I don't see he or Andrus being brought back after this recent stretch.

No fucking s%*#. I can't believe the coaching and training staff let him play. I don't care what the player says, they should have looked at his one handed swings and IL'd him until he was pain free.

Kenny was great at finding veterans that would over perform out of nowhere. Although I'm not sure how much of that was because of Don Cooper and Herm Schneider. Kenny just sucked at building any sort of farm system and often fell in love with players he liked no matter how over the hill they were.

You do have to wonder how much of the player evaluation is Hahn, KW, or TLR. Cause I'm sure all 3 have a say. We've been acquiring Tony's former players left and right. And most of them have sucked.

I play slow pitch softball and often there's a HR limit. So when you use the homers on solo shots, it's seen as selfish. I'm kind of laughing at the idea of Tony LaRussa thinking the same thing.

I mostly agree with you. I don't think anyone really hated that trade on this forum. Nobody expected Pollock to suck as much as he has. But we kind of only liked the deal because a) we really wanted to get rid of Kimbrel and his option should have never been picked up and b) it was so late in the off-season that Pollock was probably the best Hahn could do. Hahn fucked up by picking up Kimbrel's option and not acting earlier in the FA window.

Part of this is true. Pollock was coming off a career year and didn't really show many signs of decline. But the guy is 34 and the fact the Dodgers were willing to let him go despite him putting up a .900 OPS last year tells you that they clearly didn't think that highly of him. It's clear no team won the trade this year, but the fact the Sox are gonna be saddled paying a 35 year old Pollock $13 million next year probably means we'll lose it.

If they really liked him they should have traded for him from Boston. The Royals didn't give up very much for him.

I just saw that Judge gets special baseballs during his ABs...there's no doubt those are ultra juiced right? lol

That was this year...and then everybody the team counted on and acquired face-planted. We wouldn't be having existential doubts about this team had Moncada just gave us what he produced in 2021. Same with Grandal. Those 2 guys boned this offense. We went from middle of the pack in walks to last cause those guys a) sucked b) didn't play enough c) didn't walk as much as they used to. The team had a lot of issues with the way it was built, but just about everyone thought they would win enough to win the terrible AL Central.

I felt like he mostly made the right reads when he did throw the ball on Sunday, he just overthrew guys. Which is something he didn't struggle with as much before. He seems super hesitant to throw the ball and is holding on for way too long. You can't do that in the NFL. He's taken huge steps backwards.

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Don't forget Vernon Wells.

I still don't think we're at Angels levels of spending or ineptitude. It's close, but we didn't have a Mike Trout or Shohei Ohtani fall in our laps. We also don't go for big-time FAs like the Angels do. They just f*** up their big signings every time. Whereas we f*** up 3-4 mid-level signings.

Tony can go stand in LaRussa's Lounge during games.

I probably won't watch next year just out of protest.

Machado since 2019: 14.9 fWAR, $89 million. $6.14 million/WAR. He's also about to be half-way done with his deal. Harper since 2019: 14.9 fWAR, $78 million. $5.23 million/WAR. He's got 9 years left on his deal.

What's sad is that Escobar would lead this team in homers right now. He's had a hot streak lately, but he was actually worse than Harrison about a month ago.

Yeah, the payroll looks good in terms of total value, but JR also limits what kind of long-term money the FO can spend. Which in turn limits the types of players they can go after. We know JR won't give any mega-deals out, so now we're left with a hand-full of big deals to mid-level free agent types and almost every one of them has blown up in their face. Keuchel and Grandal's deals are now disastrous contracts. Keuchel might be off the books, but we wasted $36 million on him these last 2 years to get below replacement level innings. Grandal, unless he miraculously gets healthy again, is a replacement level catcher who can't even catch every day. Hendriks also got a similar level contract, but he's also trending downwards with potential elbow issues down the line. I don't know how Jerry or the FO can sit there with a straight face and tell any of us those investments were better than spending the $300+ million needed to land either Harper or Machado. The 3 aforementioned contracts with Kelly and Graveman added already sits at a total commitment of $222 million over about a 5 year span. Please tell me how that's better than getting 5+ years of prime production from Harper or Machado.