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Unleash the Chappy

Yeah, Eloy and Moncada were hurt last year, so they should be a net zero. Losing Cease hurts, obviously. And Robert. But Getz decided to keep the med staff (and a lot of minor league coaches). But Chris "Baseball Man" Getz completely overturned the pitching staff from OD last year (Kopech and Clevinger aside) and they're hot garbage. I fail to see why Brebbia deserved $4M (I know someone is about to blabber about Hahn, but tough s%*#, he shouldn't make the same mistakes), Maldonado getting $4M, or his other worthless pack-the-roster moves. He's burning cash on dog s%*#, like Hahn did, dumping prospects for dogshit, and didn't improve in defense like he boasted he would. And if he takes until next year to make a change, then there was truly no point to hire him over an actual baseball executive. He also decided to get a 29-year-old reliever for Cease. If Wilson isn't dominant, then they missed out on getting something else in the Cease trade.

Played for Grifol in KC, plays FASTs

Watching the end of the game last night my wife asked why they were so bad and I told her it was a combo of the owner being cheap, but the nepo-GM having a lot of hubris as he stepped into his new role assuming he could build a roster of a bunch of players that played like him, which was not a very good player.

Yeah, as a former Hahn apologist it's ridiculous to hear it get repeated. The man had two skills (in my opinion), which was teardowns and extending young players. But he couldn't develop players, sign good free agents, or trade for veterans without devastating the farm system in some stupid manner.

Yes, this excuse was used for Rick Hahn and the general response was that if it was so bad, he could just have not taken the job. GMs with tighter leashes were able to build rosters that weren't on track to be the worst team in major league history.

As someone who loves Duke Ellis, it'd be insane to have him skip AAA for anything short of having him as an emergency bench guy. The team needs to let all of their prospects go up through the normal cycles.

Can't make Chris Getz's premiere free agent hitter sit out games, can we?

I still like Jake Burger and now the thread has made me sad. Go back to eviscerating Maldonado!

Yes, someone else said the pun!

Love that Stone is like "this is why the Sox were enamored with him." I wonder who was enamored with him Steve. Say it.

And Korey Lee is undeniably our best catcher right now.

I am glad I asked!

Kevin Pillar is unironically our best outfielder.

Wasn't his third start on short rest or something insane because they didn't have a fifth starter?

Like everything else with this org, they had no actual plan on how to do this.

"Crochet overcomes Laz Diaz" is funny. Unfortunately he did not overcome Willie Castro.

Bad defense and throwing a reliever-turned-starter right into the fire, who would have figured?

He didn't have enough power to dictate coaches, stop judging him. He still doesn't, for some reason, despite being the sole decision maker.

Dunn is easily the best hitter in this lineup. And he did have that All-Star season!

Lol Jimmy Rollins really did come in and go "perhaps a child taking grounders when we need to work on things is a waste of time" and it unleashed Armageddon

To pile on: It seemed like Lenyn always had to figure out each minor league level himself. It was a pattern. He'd struggle hard when first promoted, then go on tears. Is it any shock that the one level that that doesn't work at is the major league level?

Legitimately wondering if any organization (other than the Royals) would hire Getz for any role.