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My two cents is I commend Bautista for airing his disdain. I mean sure it was juvenile, immature, and unprofessional but as the leader of the team he represented the players in the clubhouse and a large majority of the fans who were pissed off at the front office for coming up lame this ENTIRE year. Imho good for him because they needed to be called out, condescended to, and mocked for their ineptness after repeated proclamations of "If we ever get into a position to compete the money will be there when the time comes". Well the time came and we got into that position but they didn't do sweet f*** all! At the end of the day that's the bane of the frustration from the players and like minded fans and I totally get it. You can break it down in regards to the market and the limited amount of players available, overpaying for the players who were available, gutting the farm and destroying the future for a team that's potentially mediocre, looking at the teams who didn't do anything and are surging now and alternatively the teams that did do something who are now struggling.. but the fact remains this team was in the AL East fighting for a pennant and 3 games up in the Wildcard race on the Jul 31st deadline, this for a team who had not even had a sniff of the playoffs in the past 2 decades. Front Office dropped the ball, they should have recognized an opportunity was there and seized the moment to capitalize on the momentum this team had built up and all of the excitement in the city. In any business windows of opportunity present themselves and it's all about the timing, it was stupid to still be in the mindset of being hamstrung by the failures of 2013 when the landscape had shifted for this team on Jul 31st 2014. We'll never know how things would've went if they got someone but its pretty obvious how it's gone without them getting someone. Should this team have rallied together and stepped to do their job since they're all millionaires and paid professionals? Sure. But the reality is the morale was effected in the clubhouse/fanbase by the broken promises of management. Promises that I doubt were made for all of the other teams on a current upswing who don't play in the AL East where you have minimal windows of opportunity. Did KC's GM get everyone's hopes up by saying money was there when it wasn't? If he had maybe there would've been a big letdown there instead of here, but thankfully for them I think they always knew where they stood. If anyone's to blame here for the bad culture, etc. it's starting from the very top..

I just turned the game on, typical BS I see. My word this team has really s*** the bed when it's mattered most..

Who do you like? Most of those guys didn't look appealing to me at all. Great list to browse though, I couldn't help but notice how many starters & set up men will be on the market. Also made me realize how thin the options are for 2B although there were a handful of SS options where we could push Reyes to 2B. Also couldn't believe Denorfia & Gomes are 4 years older than Melky, even Tony Gwynn jr is 2 years older than him. Sign that man stat!

True and I would never advocate an overpay for the sake of holding on to him but if we could get 2 years at a reasonable price I'd do it considering the available options and the market. Yeah his velocity sucks but that's never been his game anyways and I'm sure he's got at least 2 decent years left in the tank.

And more reliable than most of the other crap out there too. Casey gets a lot of flak but he's been nothing but solid over the last few years barring a few injury woes and the odd bit of rust sprinkled in. He'd be good to re-sign on a 2yr contract in the ballpark of 16-18M.

In a lot of ways I agree with this too, I took somewhat of an unpopular stance on these threads but I still feel exactly the same. I would've traded Hutchison, Sanchez, and Nolin yesterday for 2yrs of pennant drives led by Price (and yes the Rays actually were interested in Hutch, they asked for one of Hutch or Stro to headline a package along with Sanchez+)

That's exactly it though, he's so enigmatic and that's the source of my frustration. He will be dynamic and only give up a handful of hits one game and then get the holy living s*** kicked out of him the next. Perhaps I'm not the best guy to discuss this with because I'm not Hutch's biggest fan and find him infuriating but ultimately like everyone else I give him a pass because he's coming off TJ surgery and extended time off, he's only 23, etc, etc. But if he's still pulling this Jekyll/Hyde routine a few years from now it will absolutely be inexcusable, at some point he's going to have to figure out within himself what works and what doesn't to find a level of consistency as a big league pitcher. I mean everyone has good and bad days and gets knocked around here and there but I've never seen someone who's so polarizing from start to start.

I can ask them to not s*** the bed and cough up 11 runs in 2 innings combined in an extremely crucial series.. In all honesty I don't blame them as much as I blame management for hanging the team out to dry this offseason & trade deadline. They've been put into precarious positions of no fault of their own but regardless they need to dig a little deeper down the stretch if this team has any miracles left up their sleeves.

This rotation really needs to stop f***ing around, our wonderboys Stro & Hutch sunk a very winnable series for us. This team is officially on life support..

Idiotic impatient Colby, typical..

Don't be a meatstick here Colby.

Edwin needs to do something here, I'm not overly confident with DV & Colby getting the job done.

EE better crank one here.

Crank this 3-1

Here comes the meat!

Interesting choice with Loup vs the righties. Thank god for that tag out that lazy stupid Francisco almost botched.

Nice

If only useless Tollie & Francisco could've done something.

Or not..

Colby goes yard here.

Was that meant to be insulting?

Gotta feeling DV is going to lace one here.

s*** nice rip.

Anything but a dp.

So nice to have multiple series of AB's now with competent hitters, remember not to long ago when it was just Reyes/Melk/JB and then you had to wait another 3innings..