Please stop writing “rebuild is over” articles...

[caulfield12]

https://amp.mlb.com/269743968-young-white-s...n-2018.amp.html

 

Yes, it?€™s filler for the casual fanbase, but we?€™re at least one full season away and closer to a 70 win team and bottom 5 in the majors than one approaching .500.

 

Everyone should understand patience by now, and that this year will be pretty hard to get enthused about watching the likes of Shields, Gonzalez, Santiago, Soria, etc., but there?€™s no point trying to spin someone just to sell a few more tickets.

 

Actually, just watching Moncada, Delmonico, Engel, Giolito and Lopez was enough for most die hard fans...along with Avi, Abreu and Davidson/Yolmer/Leury. Clearly, we also had our ups and downs with Anderson/Rodon as well. Non-linear progression.

 

If nothing else, Cleveland and the Twins are well set up to be better than us until 2020, barring some huge free agent signings this offseason or a huge jump up to a $100 million/year broadcasting rights deal.

 

Sure, Kopech, Hansen, Cease and Dunning could all light the world on fire simultaneously to Jimenez’s arrival...but counting on that is as crazy as expecting Ohtani to win both a Cy Young and Silver Slugger in his first three seasons.

Edited March 29, 2018 by caulfield12

[southsider2k5]

https://amp.mlb.com/269743968-young-white-s...n-2018.amp.html

 

Yes, it?€™s filler for the casual fanbase, but we?€™re at least one full season away and closer to a 70 win team and bottom 5 in the majors than one approaching .500.

 

Everyone should understand patience by now, and that this year will be pretty hard to get enthused about watching the likes of Shields, Gonzalez, Santiago, Soria, etc., but there?€™s no point trying to spin someone just to sell a few more tickets.

 

Actually, just watching Moncada, Delmonico, Engel, Giolito and Lopez was enough for most die hard fans...along with Avi, Abreu and Davidson/Yolmer/Leury. Clearly, we also had our ups and downs with Anderson/Rodon as well. Non-linear progression.

 

If nothing else, Cleveland and the Twins are well set up to be better than us until 2020, barring some huge free agent signings this offseason or a huge jump up to a $100 million/year broadcasting rights deal.

 

Sure, Kopech, Hansen, Cease and Dunning could all light the world on fire simultaneously to Jimenez’s arrival...but counting on that is as crazy as expecting Ohtani to win both a Cy Young and Silver Slugger in his first three seasons.

 

What is the weird symbol you keep typing?

[Balta1701]

What is the weird symbol you keep typing?

Something is wrong with him copying and pasting the apostrophe' from whatever font he's originally seeing the quoted text in, all of those used to be apostrophe's (sic).

[caulfield12]

Something is wrong with him copying and pasting the apostrophe' from whatever font he's originally seeing the quoted text in, all of those used to be apostrophe's (sic).

 

When you go back and edit a post, at least on my ipad, it converts to that weird symbol unless you manually go back a second time and fix back all the apostrophes that should actually be there (and were in the original post.)