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Given the braintrust we have right now the safest directive would be to be a low-risk buyer at the deadline. It's the only thing Atkins does reasonably well. There's no benefit to jumpstarting the rebuild a year early and further alienating our revenue base for Billy McKinney and Anthony Kay.

I know you're joking but you don't want a lazy headcase anywhere near a core of young players during a hard reset. He would be the first to go.

Hit tool is the single best predictor of reaching the major leagues lol

Every single bit of this paragraph is incorrect, I remember 2015 like the back of my hand. The Blue Jays were the best team in baseball by a wide margin. Jose Reyes was making so many errors that there were honestly active discussions of giving Ryan Goins the starting SS slot. We brought in the best SS glove in baseball. Colabello was chosen from a position of depth. Him and Danny Valencia were basically playing the same role and people here were furious because Valencia had more control and could play 3B. Apparently Gibbons didn't like Valencia's presence in the clubhouse and Anthopoulos sided with the manager. And a roided up Colabello ended up outhitting him anyways. We replaced our shittiest relievers like Steve Delabar and Bo Schultz with two legitimate backend guys. We also acquired a true number 1 starter, all in the same trade deadline. Anthopoulos patched literally every single hole on that team and was named MLB executive of the year so I don't know what you're talking about. You can bring up all the elite prospects he traded away while ignoring the trades where he absolutely bent the other team over. You can bring up the elite prospects he drafted that went bust. But you can't call that 2015 team anything other than elite. And it was built on the tornado of moves that Anthopoulos made before and during the season.

If you have 10 years of data you don't parse individual moves. You incorporate at MLB performance, farm system talent, and payroll and make a clear-eyed evaluation of current leadership.

This is not at all something I would staple to my CV

Irvin needs to get 6 outs this inning

Zero accountability

You can't compare postseason appearances across different Wild Card eras

A year ago Kikuchi would've been pulled an inning ago. The computer is making better decisions

Right on Left, one of the hardest guys on the team to double up. Bizarre move.

Elite front offices are filled with mediocre ex players with genius IQs. What are Atkins' qualifications/credentials anyways? Friedman was a finance whiz kid before baseball. Tampa's front office is filled with ex players with Harvard and Stanford MBAs. Even Keith Law went to Harvard and his career consists of saying mean things about prospects and critiquing Top Chef risotto recipes. I hate to be elitist, but we are talking about high powered positions with millions of dollars at stake. Was Atkins so good during his stint in Cleveland that he's earned this much rope? I don't know, I'm just asking because the product here over the past several years has not exceeded expectations.

This team has a monopoly over arguably the largest market in MLB. If the organization can't build a sustainable winner without tanking for the 1st overall pick that's a reflection of the org.

The single most important personnel decision the team president can make is GM. His two major moves in nearly 10 years was to quiet fire Anthopoulos and to hire and retain Atkins for all this time. Is Shapiro really that much of a business genius that he can't be replaced by someone with better judgement on key personnel?

It's really funny that you could be referring to any one of 3 key players above

Siddall is an OK announcer but what makes him special is that he's the only one who has the balls to consistently point out dumb s*** the team does. Dan and to a lesser extent Buck will hold their tongue but Siddall doesn't really give a s***, ever since the Montoyo era. Pay that man

You can't really fire Schneider after he got absolutely hung out to dry by upper management for the Berrios incident. I mean you could, but you would develop a reputation in the industry as a POS organization.

Barger is an absolute butcher out there

Do you have sources for this?

Dude, why would you just believe these words when you have 5+ years of behaviour that refutes this. Nobody at any level has held Guerrero accountable from the first day he stepped foot on the team.

Guerrero also leads all of MLB in GIDP since he became a regular. Batting him leadoff would probably add a half win from baserunning value alone.

Danny was overmatched in that AB

Who knew, an elite athlete in his physical prime could get in shape with clean diet and exercise.

Barger drinks more Red Bull than Brett Lawrie

There are richer owners and brainier front offices but 29 MLB teams could learn from Atlanta's organizational culture. Accountability at every level