Bananarchy

Holy crap. Special.

The bessssss!

Eloy!

Unfortunately, gidp's are not really indicative of anything. Just bad timing.

"Is Cease going to be call-" "I'm sorry, can I interrupt you for a second? I just wanted to say the rumors are true: I am the worst manager in baseball. Wanted to let everyone know. Thanks" Amazing.

What is he supposed to say?

I'm somewhere in the middle. I think Machado would have been worth it, but I'd rather have nothing then fill the roster with overpaid low talent free agents.

Some people here are terribly allergic to warranted positivity.

And, honestly, when it comes to "free agent blunders", it's far better to screw up the way Hahn and Company did with Machado than to do what the Cubs did with Heyward and Yu Darvish. Those are massive screw ups.

It's already happening, honestly. Half this lineup is still temporary.

I mean, they have won 9 more games this year than the same time last year.

Stop it. You're exposing more of @Moan4Yoan's bullshit.

In this "What have you done for me lately?" league, Hahn has done fine.

Also, are we counting Luis Robert, the best performer in the minors basically for any team as a free agent signing? I mean, it wasn't a draft pick. And JR opened the checkbook for him.

You mean like James McCann and Alex Colome?

Uh yeah. The fact that Giolito, Kopech, and Cease are all from different trades is awesome. And two of those guys came as a result of Hahn's forward thinking contract negotiations with Quintana, Sale. The crazy thing is our two brightest fielding stars came in those trades as well. At this point, the fire rick and kenny crowd is 95% meatheads.

He could be Ronny Woo Woo aka @ron883. Count your blessings.

Man, Rick would look like a mega genius.

Give it time

Moncada's contact is encouraging.

I love Lucas Giolito

More like McCann

Get the best pitching coach you can find. Reinsdorf has done enough damage to both his organizations hiring former players. The problem is, when they hit, it's a good thing. However, he clearly has a ton of trouble firing them.

You can fire Renteria, but keeping Cooper is defensible. Sorry, it just is. I get your point, but we have to stop acting like the rebuild isn't working. It's working. It's evident. And the execution of the rebuild is a positive mark for the front office.

Except in no way was that their biggest test.