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Do you honestly believe Devers would have come here and prospered? I don’t.

Chris Getz making marquee trades frightens me. If he though this catastrophe would be competitive, I sure as hell can’t put any faith in his talent evaluation. This team is so fucked for the foreseeable future.

That’s Nastrini-esque. Where the hell do they find these guys?

When moving on to Detroit and a very mid Tigers team is the better career move, it says a lot.

That’s my hope. With the new network I could see the execs wanting a fresh start w/o the obvious baggage / drama with him.

"Finished" is the term.

5/$108 isn't even close to top dollar for a marquee free agent today, and Belle was the closest to a marquee free agent they've ever signed. Nearly 30 years ago.

JR allowed Hahn to push the total payroll close to $200M, but the team has never signed a contract for $100M. JR will only spend cumulatively on a bunch of small contracts. He will not sign high dollar AAVs for multiple years, especially not for pitching. 5/$75M is tops, and that guy turned out to be a dud, so we're never seeing anything close to that ever again from JR. All of Hahn's bullpen spending was short term. Even his pre-Arb guys had under 5 years guaranteed before the options started kicking in. Point is, JR simply won't sign high dollar long term deals.

Who?

Two names: Jaime Navarro and Billy Koch.

I'd have to think Montoyo would get at least next year too with how JR operates.

Cut everyone and forfeit. It’s less humiliating.

There is no point. Nothing matters until JR is gone.

Calling them out didn’t light the fire he hoped, so back to coddling.

Exactly. Unless you have elite level performance somewhere, there is a real ceiling to how far you can go.

Yup. Even if Getz somehow proves to be more competent ( a big IF ) or proves to be a better talent evaluator ( an even bigger IF ) than Hahn or KW, he's still handcuffed by how JR operates.

As soon as they start to get more expensive in arb, the non-tenders will come. They're both journeyman AAAA guys at best.

Neither would be a starter on a playoff team. I doubt Sheets would even be a bench guy.

Too bad his replacement hasn't done anything to prove he's any better.

I think it's fantasy land that the Sox retain Robert and he's still around when they climb out of the gutter. With their unwillingness to sign quality FA, they're going to have to cash Robert in.

0% better. Ozzie Guillen has not worked in Major League Baseball in more than a decade. Grifol is a bumbling idiot, be he has managed to stay employed in the game. Granted it has been by being a sycophantic lickspittle, but that's more than can be said for Guillen.

We could also go 5 minutes without picking a fight or lambasting viewers as haters or losers.

I was at this game, just up the 1B line. It was scary live.

Aint that the truth

Don't know, don't wanna know!