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Jose probably should have had it

Yikes Yoan...3-0 count and all he can do is dribble it back to the pitcher.

To give you an idea of just how bad Collins was last year defensively: The Sox as a team had a -40 DRS combined in 2021. Collins was responsible for -18 of that in 78 games. McGuire was +2 in the same amount of games.

He flashed all his power in parking lots everywhere.

Collins may be a better bat with a bit more of a ceiling at the plate, but he just never made enough contact to stick as a hitter. His framing and defense was also some of the worst in baseball last year. It was time to move on.

What the hell happened to McGuire's power these last 2 years? He went from a .200 ISO to 2020 Nick Madrigal the past 2 years.

In all seriousness, McGuire is a great framer. We needed to make this deal.

Hope he hits some jacks all the way to the parking lot for us.

He had the 2nd to last batter struck out. Ump just didn't give it to him.

I'd rather have Alex Cobb for $10 million this year than those 2.

FUCK THE PADRES

Cueto feels like Mat Latos all over again.

Damn we really can't have nice things can we?

We won 85 games lol

His framing numbers are really good. He was worth +15 runs on defense last year in only half a season's worth of playing time. He can't hit for shit, but he can catch.

Hosmer as a full time DH would have been puke worthy. Hosmer's contract is a lot like Keuchel's, except you're stuck with it for like 4 more years.

I'm surprised nobody has signed Goodwin to even a minor league deal. He was good enough last year to at least be OF depth.

Why the Cubs would even consider taking Hosmer made no sense to me.

He didn't even pitch in AAA. Guardians are either really short on starters or they really like him.

Kimbrel's curve was at least pretty good with us. He just tended to hit left handed hitters with it. I wouldn't be too worried about him hanging curveballs in Arizona, if I'm the Dodgers I'd be more concerned with his control and velocity on the fastball.

I'm sure he'll go back to throwing 98 again when he gets to close. I'm not sure what the hell Kimbrel was doing in the off-season, but apparently he came into camp throwing 90. I'm not too familiar with how long it takes pitchers to ramp up in ST, but it's hard to believe he can ramp up 8 MPH when a lot of the other guys on the team were already throwing hard 2 weeks ago.

We've already won the trade!

TLR is gonna be beside himself deciding which grindy utility player he'll have to play - Leury or Harrison.

For a guy who had high scouting marks in speed, defense, and make-up, what we actually saw in those departments was severely disappointing. His bat lived up to the hype and then some when he finally started hitting for a little power before he got hurt. He wasn't a 60 grade speed guy like the scouting reports said. More like a 50 or 55. His fielding was just average and he'd panic in certain fielding situations. Same with his base running decisions. For a guy who was supposed to have high baseball IQ, he did a lot of stupid shit on the bases. One of them cost him most of 2020.