33 minutes ago, pcq said:

Josh is more like another Leury at this point and adds little of value. 

Veteran Grit, leadership and Energizer Bunny enthusiasm…

5 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

yeah, it isn't that far fetched to think he would be better lol.  Good thing we gave 5.5 million for Harrison though.

Like it or not, a bench of "Engel, Leury/Romy, unknown possible human being, and backup catcher" has a hole that needs filled, and with his lack of ability to play key defensive positions like SS or OF, Burger isn't a good candidate for that role over a whole season, so there's no one obvious in the org who can do it.

A bench of "Leury, Romy, Engel because we brought in a starting 2b" would also have worked fine.

Wish these guys well who are leaving and hope they land in a good spot. 

54 minutes ago, fathom said:

Adolfo impressed me nearly every at bat. And yes, Romy over Harrison should have happened.

Romy looked completely overwhelmed in the majors last season. 30% K rate with a 3% BB rate is brutal. I didn't like the Harrison signing at all, but he has a higher floor than Romy.

1 minute ago, maxjusttyped said:

Romy looked completely overwhelmed in the majors last season. 30% K rate with a 3% BB rate is brutal. I didn't like the Harrison signing at all, but he has a higher floor than Romy.

He also had bad luck in that he had some deep fly balls at Texas that would be gone elsewhere. 

Just now, fathom said:

He also had bad luck in that he had some deep fly balls at Texas that would be gone elsewhere. 

Harrison is still a much better bet to give a ~95-105 wRC+ and just be serviceable than Romy is. Obviously the upside with Romy is higher, and if he's playing well then he should get the job full-time

11 minutes ago, maxjusttyped said:

Harrison is still a much better bet to give a ~95-105 wRC+ and just be serviceable than Romy is. Obviously the upside with Romy is higher, and if he's playing well then he should get the job full-time

0.3, -0.6, 0.3, 1.5

It's almost the complete opposite of Michael Conforto.

We're totally ignoring his age 30-32 seasons (because that player has zero value for those seasons), then banking on a repeat of his age 33 season.

I miss the days of extrapolating Madrigal numbers into 2-3 fWAR-ish seasons.

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Romy might be better than Harrison this year, but he's had very little time at AAA. Plus, if you go with Romy at 2B, then you have no backup. Now you have Romy as an option if Harrison is bad or gets hurt.

1 minute ago, CentralChamps21 said:

Romy might be better than Harrison this year, but he's had very little time at AAA. Plus, if you go with Romy at 2B, then you have no backup. Now you have Romy as an option if Harrison is bad or gets hurt.

Well, basically you have Mendick and whatever comes out of the DFA period this next week and at the end of April as rosters shrink down to normal numbers.

But the odds are, at best, 1 in 4 that you're going to get a 1.5-2.0 fWAR 2B and 75% you're going to have to turn around and replace him again, just like Eaton and Mazara in RF.  All those wasted contract dollars add up, to the point where it would have been much more effective to pay $10-15 million for a longer-term solution.

10 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Well, basically you have Mendick and whatever comes out of the DFA period this next week and at the end of April as rosters shrink down to normal numbers.

But the odds are, at best, 1 in 4 that you're going to get a 1.5-2.0 fWAR 2B and 75% you're going to have to turn around and replace him again, just like Eaton and Mazara in RF.  All those wasted contract dollars add up, to the point where it would have been much more effective to pay $10-15 million for a longer-term solution.

 

10 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Well, basically you have Mendick and whatever comes out of the DFA period this next week and at the end of April as rosters shrink down to normal numbers.

But the odds are, at best, 1 in 4 that you're going to get a 1.5-2.0 fWAR 2B and 75% you're going to have to turn around and replace him again, just like Eaton and Mazara in RF.  All those wasted contract dollars add up, to the point where it would have been much more effective to pay $10-15 million for a longer-term solution.

I concur. If we had a better eye for talent, we might be able to find better cheap talent. The white sox always sign a guy after his best year and are shocked when they 

regress back to the mean. It's called the Keppinger anomaly.