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To add onto this: Not knowing the rule wasn't the worst part of last night. It was the double-switch - which he was told was a bad idea in his dugout - and the attempted steal which we, a collective message board hive mind, could have all told you was a stupid fucking idea right in the moment for a litany of reasons.

I've seen enough, bring him up to Chicago. Saw Forbes' age the other day and thought the same thing about his age. He's basically always been younger the the league average at every level, until now.

Non-practicing attorney Tony La Russa demonstrated all the time in Arizona that he doesn't do research or know rules. He tried to make trades that weren't legal per MLB rules and then traded for the wrong Luis Basabe, because he's too fucking lazy to do his goddamn research. The D-backs paid the price for his laziness for years. Now the Sox are going to pay the price when they could have had their pick of any single manager on the market, especially one who would bother to learn the rules of the game.

Cincinnati's manager did.

Remember when Tony kept trying to make illegal trades in the Diamondbacks front office and other GMs had to explain the rules to him?

Can James Fegan be the manager?

Today might be his worse loss because this is where he should have been at his best - managing a fucking NL game - but he so completely botched it.

Needed to pinch run for him, essentially.

Maybe Tony was worried about Jake Lamb being the next batter up? Who am I kidding, he thinks Lamb is a fucking god.

Over reactionary take that I feel completely justified in saying because it's endemic of a larger problem: Whoever made the call to steal there (TLR or Leury) should be fired or cut from the team.

The fact that La Russa was the Cards manager for so long makes this even more laughable.

#BigBrainManaging

If Mendick can play OF, there is no reason to have Jake Lamb on the team.

Don't stop

RealGM has a breakdown on future pick protections. Either there's oversight, or it looks like Orlando would be out of luck - so, let's hope it's the former.

The Charlotte outfielders are sensing opportunity.

Kenny always gets his guy.

@MannysCornedBeef is up for grabs.

RF, but he has played 55 games in center in his career.

Let me rephrase that: I'm loathing it in the specific instance, because they'd be more attractive to other teams that didn't get to see their development and growth.

I loathe the lack of minor league season last year. I feel like we have guys who might have been / knocking on the door of the Top 100 list if there had been.

The alternative is a 20-year-old that was seen as one of the rawest, albeit very toolsy, players in his draft that has hit .213 in one season of rookie ball. Beard is 80-grade fast (I think the meme when we drafted him was that if speed was graded on a quantitative scale and not qualitative, he'd be 80+ speed), but barring a massive jump I'd be shocked if we see him before 2023 at the earliest.

I'm going to assume this is flat out trolling.