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You see, that's before the Sox helped him become an All-Star

They got youngbloods on the way.

I feel like the high end goal was make the playoffs, with a lot of posters feeling like even that was a longshot.

It's two games, which followed an amazing comeback. Which capped off an amazing run that included a no-hitter, 4 straight homers, Abreu murdering the Cubs, Dunning's emergence, Anderson establishing his stardom, Eloy moonlighting as a landscaper, and more. Moncada is clearly not feeling well, Bummer is out, Vaughn and other prospects are still developing. Yes, this team has holes, but unless you're the Dodgers, every team has holes. This is year one of the window. The sky isn't falling.

One of the worst left-handed offenses in baseball.

This is exciting and awesome.

Because of his knees. They then immediately replaced him with the man who became a World Series MVP and All-Star.

Big ass contracts, extensions, Luis Robert, more focus on high schoolers, knock on wood that the draft picks are more than trade fodder.

Doesn't want to win Goes to great lengths to tear down the team, stack with phenom prospects, hand out several massive FA contracts and extensions, and overhaul the draft process. Pick one.

37 games into the contract.

Sunshine is a blast and criminally underrated when people talk about Mario games.

Let's play out Castellanos: "This bum can't play the field, why did we sign a DH to play RF?" "He's only hitting .250 - why are we paying a bat only DH for past production?" "We need left handed power in the lineup, instead we wasted it on a terrible outfielder. Engel is holding his own, meanwhile, Castellanos will prevent us from getting a competent outfielder or properly utilizing Vaughn."

They tried to get Zack Wheeler and he took less money to play in Philly. Who else did you want? And again, we're in a weird, 60 game season. Grandal was elite as recently as last season. He's still a top 4 catcher this season so far.

Ok, I can do the same thing for McCann: Wrong side of 30, but I guess one year younger. His comps are Travis d'Arnaud and Chris Widger. By age we got...these dudes: 26. Bill Nahorodny 27. Jerry Moses 28. Harry Chiti 29. Joe Oliver And McCann is the 28th most valuable catcher over the same timeframe. They're both good. Grandal has an elite track record. McCann doesn't. Also, give Grandal more than 36 games to get used to our staff so you can see pitch framing.

He's been the most valuable catcher in baseball over the past 5 years.

Gar Forman in shambles.

This is TA getting in the heads of the Padres' clubhouse. Now everyone in that clubhouse will distrust Clevinger - he was trying to escape the Indians, not party with Plesac, and get to the Sox. Who's to say he'll want to be with the Padres? Does he really love them? 4D chess by our star shortstop.

You seem to forget they tried to draft Jordan Danks before they traded for John Danks. Also, they have nothing to do with international signees.

A rookie reliever?

Can y'all chill? Here are our 3B options: Jake Burger, Yermin Mercedes. I guess the team could get creative and get Laz Rivera and Yolbert Sanchez up to Schaumburg, but, let's be real here. Mendick is coming back to earth and is best used situationally. Yolmer is a good defender. We may all be squirmin' for Yermin to be sent down while we watch him butcher a slow roller down the line at 3B (which isn't fair to him, since he's not a 3B). Burger is coming back from tearing his fucking achilles twice. The team knows Yolmer, he's a good defender. Yoan needs rest in the worst way. Unless someone on this board that's complaining about Yolmer playing at third is going to magically summon 2006 Joe Crede, I'd like to know what magical 3B depth we're going to get that is acceptable.

Grandal, a historically streaky catcher, is a few hot games off his career averages. He's a top 2 catcher in the game and elite at framing. We're also, hear me out, 27 games played into the contract. I've also been having this "fuck it, it's 2020" idea.

Let's make 2020 weirder and give a rookie reliever the Cy Young

That's a deep, but actually talented list. A shame they lost this year.

Agreed, I'm just saying that's the reason why. His power and speed just mean he gets more hits on what he does make contact with, even though Baez is no slouch himself.