Nardiwashere

I mean, there's a new front office. Andrew Vaughn was drafted FIVE years ago by the former GM and former scouting director. Him being a bust doesn't matter to me one way or another. They need to be better this time around. The previous guys got fired for a reason.

I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but claiming we cant sniff a playoff spot until 2030 or have no real shot at .500 until 2027 is wild to me. I agree that they have very little position players but they have like a dozen pitchers that will all be making their debuts starting at the end of this year and next year. Those guys are all coming up. They better have a plan to get some bats. Lets assume we are fine with rolling with Lee/Quero/Cheap FA Vet at catcher. We have Ramos, Montgomery, Gonzalez, Baldwin in high minors. For the sake of argument, let's say 2 become regular starters on the left side of the infield and two suck. Robert in CF. We have like 70 million dollars coming off the books. They will have this year's draft. They will have this year's trade deadline. You cant find a 1b, 2b, DH, and a couple of OFers in 5 years?? I'm not saying there's an easy path to becoming the Dodgers but it should not take the biggest market in the AL Central 6+ years to field a team that can win 88 games.... especially when all their best prospects are in AA and AAA.

I know Salas is highly touted but I wouldn't be trading him for 17 or 18 year olds right now. If I'm moving Robert or Crochet, I want guys who are here in the next 18 months.

Yeah. Clevinger was under investigation by the MLB and they told the Padres and the Sox signed him (presumably not knowing).

So you think its more likely that he wasn't showing up to the team for another unrelated reason and no one at MLB notified the Sox that they were investigating him and Getz just randomly DFA'd him by coincidence. Makes sense.

34 SBs is nuts. It looks like he has 31 hits and 13 walks. So he's been on base 44 times and stole 34 bases. That's fun.

He's definitely a member of Bill Simmons' "Reggie Cleveland All-Stars" aka white athletes who have names that make them sound black.

I'm drawing a blank on the third of Tres Garcias... Avi, Leury, and who?

How'd we get this dude?

morons

Wasn't he mysteriously not showing up due to "family issues" and then they DFA'd him? Sounds like they knew. I'm guessing when they traded him for cash considerations, they disclosed what they knew to Philly.

Lol. I'm sure all the posters that flipped out for 2 months when they got rid of him will calmly admit they didn't know the full story and that they overreacted.

I mean we traded a bullpen arm that hasn't thrown a pitch this season and got a bullpen arm, a minor league OFer, and the draft pick. I think that's pretty solid.

Are we completely writing Fletcher off already? He had about 100 ABs last year and batted .300/.350/.440. This year he has 78 ABs and batting .171/.247/.229.

Wasn't he on a hot streak two weeks ago?

Even if he's a complete dope and they hate him and don't want him near the team, just keeping him on the roster and refusing to use him is a strange choice. You'd think the options would be 1. play him 2. trade him 3. drop him.

Its bizarre. Is it his attitude? Is it baseball related? Why don't they just trade him? He has to have some trade value, right?

Finding the camera and making goofy faces.

#SpoilerAlert

The Sammy Sosa

Don't get me wrong. He is also a bust. But Eloy has been completely worthless.

Isn't Canada super strict about letting people in that have DUIs? I wonder if they had to go thru extra hoops for TLR

I've enjoyed the Julks era as much as the next guy but what is Schriffen talking about when he says "With the addition of Tommy Pham, and now Corey Julks, there hasn't been a rush to get Luis Robert back"

At least Moncada played defense, had a very good 2019, and didn't spend as much time on the IL as Jimenez

This is one of my favorite nicknames ever.