At the end of the day, your stars have to be your stars. Vladdy he has to be better, Springer has to be better, even Kirk needs to step up. You simply can't gameplan around some of your best players underperforming, you can't cover for that.
I don't understand the Orioles if they do nothing. You never punt an opportunity to win with the assumption that you will have a large window because s*** happens fast in baseball, things change, especially when you live in the American League East. They don't even have to trade their top prospects to make an impact today. They're f***ing fools if they stick with this rotation because they have a chance.
What he did wasn't great but it's not the end of the f***ing world. Overreaction, oversensitivity, if we were to hold everyone in the Hall of Fame to that standard nobody would be in there. Pure ********. We have one guy with a Hall of Fame Blue Jays hat and because of some random chick we have to ignore that.
He faded in the second half of 2021 and was terrible in 2022 before he left to have surgery. If you can convince yourself that his arm woes started in the second half of 2021 and that he will be a new man with this surgery and back to the player he was before then, then we're getting a front line starter back.
I may be fooling myself thinking that way, but I need good news right now with Bo going down, and I will fool myself until facts say I can no longer do so.
2021 man. Front office sat there and watched our bullpen blow so many games especially early. That lineup was f***ing nuts. That was the team to gamble it all on. Even last year, they needed to go get one or two shut down bullpen arms but they convinced themselves that our mediocre bullpen was good enough. They paid for that dearly. This team ain't it. Each year we're getting further from the prize not closer.
Was really looking forward to that, but this Bo thing just takes the wind out of everything.
I suppose it's possible that it's not serious, but there's only so many things in the knee that can go wrong and they would all be bad.
Too many holes man. Too many guys playing below their level. Especially the guy who was supposed to be our MVP for years to come being a bit above ordinary.