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  1. Grant77
    They would have almost certainly been better off taking our offer for Yelich. I could never understand why they valued Brinson over a vastly superior prospect in Bichette.
  2. Grant77
    TJS announcement in 3...2...
  3. Grant77
    There are some promising bats from the previous regime (Vlad, Jansen, Tellez) in the big leagues and some good prospects (Bichette, Biggio, Groshans). I think it's a fairly promising young group, but we'll see. What troubles me is that they've had 4 years and a ton of trade assets to supplement that group and what do we have? Almost nothing and that's extremely damning. Getting a 27 year old 2 WAR outfielder and signing him to a market value extension is their best move so far. We need more from Atkins and Shapiro if we want to have success going forward. Smart aquisitions of guys like Biagini, Thornton, and Giles on the pitching side give me some hope, but the hope needs to be replaced with results pretty soon.
  4. Grant77
    I said 2021 because we need to see how their drafted players perform before writing off their regime. I like a lot of the prospects that they selected and I am excited to see them debut. That being said, their major league asset management has been very poor and disappointing. To say anything else would be a fallacy. We've traded away some very valuable assets and the best players on the team remain holdovers like Smoak, Sanchez, and Stroman. Almost all of the players and prospects brought in via trade have flopped, especially on offense, with Grichuk being the lone exception. They are going to have to show an ability to identify hitting talent if we want to move forward into contention. I'm dismayed by the lack of talented young hitters in the organization.
  5. Grant77
    Jon Berti hit his first career HR for the Marlins last night.
  6. Grant77
    I picked them last summer.
  7. Grant77
    Rice Krispies topped with wild blueberries.
  8. Grant77
    Wow, another classic Pillar catch for the highlight reel. I like how the ump needed to see the ball.
  9. Grant77
    4/4?
  10. Grant77
    I think that McKinney deserves more time with the big club. He's played solid defense and cut his K rate. The power just seems to have disappeared, but there's a good chance he gets hot soon. He's had some really good at-bats lately.
  11. Grant77
    Good lord this is a stupid human being
  12. Grant77
    The advanced stats aren't the best, but Drury looks pretty solid at 2B.
  13. Grant77
    How certain are we that the team is using something as simple as a run expectancy matrix? Lots of things affect a decision like a bunt such as the pitcher, the hitter, the runner, the field, the score. If all of those factors are right then maybe it is the correct decision sometimes. I don't think that we are intentionally throwing away wins out of misguided sense of loyalty to old school baseball.
  14. Grant77
    Nicely done Sanchez, now get Chapman. Should be out of this inning without the error and the blown call, but gotta fight through it
  15. Grant77
    I can't understand the inconsistency of this rule. There's no question that he tried to interfere with Sogard.
  16. Grant77
    Profar is out. Challenge that.
  17. Grant77
    Damn Smoak, we don't see him miss those very often.
  18. Grant77
    Where do you come up with this stuff? I get that you hate him and always will, but he looks great. Lots of sink on the fastball and a nice tight curve that he is locating. He even used the changeup effectively a couple of times. He and Jansen are doing a nice job.
  19. Grant77
    I posted the numbers earlier, but the run expectancy after a 1st and 3rd bunt with none out changes very little. Then you add in the possibility of a hit or error and the fact that Sogard is a replacement level hitter. Maybe it is the right play sometimes.
  20. Grant77
    Best part of this game is that Sanchez is healthy and the breaking ball looks elite. The A's have no idea how to hit that nasty stuff.
  21. Grant77
    Runners on the corners has a run expectancy of 1.784, while a run in with a guy on second is 1.664 With a weak hitter like Sogard, that might even be a bit closer. I don't hate it.
  22. Grant77
    If you can get the bunt down there then I don't mind it from a hitter like Sogard.
  23. Grant77
    That 97 mph sinking fastball must be pretty much impossible to square up. If he had command of it he could pretty much pull a Mariano Rivera.
  24. Grant77
    This is such an outrageous call.
  25. Grant77
    Holy crap that curveball is good.
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