Bobthe4th

Exactly. We will need someone other than Tellez to be able to play 1B and IMO Hernandez is best suited of the current players (as Vlad will be the everyday 3B) to that role assuming his bat is good enough to remain in MLB.

Yeah I agree. Ideally extend Stroman (though it looks like that won’t happen), but I’d prefer to trade Giles while his value is sky high.

Not that it makes much difference but Hernandez will be on the roster, probably as a 1B/OF. CF could be Alford or Pompey. I think Galvis will be traded. Merryweather probably takes a rotation spot. Not sure Shoemaker can be relied upon to be guaranteed a spot after missing a year. Returns from the Giles and Stroman trades will fill out 2 or 3 other gaps.

Haha really - I had no idea that joint isn’t used in Canada so was super confused at your confusion! Aren’t languages weird!

You’ve never heard of the National League?? Under fWAR there were a few more AL (that’s shorthand for the American League) pitchers ahead of him, which obv isn’t relevant for the Cy Young award.

Buck was saying earlier that thuderstorms are on the way too.

That pets 2 mini ad is f***ing annoying.

Is Terminator there today?

Biggio is in the outfield for the first time:

Doesn’t sound serious:

Champions League final today - Harry Kane returning from injury to start his first game for Spurs for 2 months. Semi final hattrick hero Lucas Moura will likely come on for him at some point - apparently it's really hot in Madrid today so can't see Kane lasting the full game.

Again you don't seem to understand what "all in" means. The Miami trade in no way comes under that description. The 2015 deadline trades do. Dickey is debatable, technically not "all in" and was instead spending prospect capital to improve the team (something everyone agrees in theory is the right thing to do at the right time, even though obviously the Dickey trade was a bad one). TBF this is a pointless debate about semantics.

Hey Mike, you know what I said about reacting to people pointing out the flaws in badly evidenced posts (a few posts up)? Here's your test on how you react: Our farm is ranked top 3 by most sources, the current state of the franchise does not begin and end with the MLB players. Signing David Price would have been a very expensive mistake. He's signed for another 4 years when he'll be 37. He would have helped the first year (when we made the playoffs anyway) but wouldn't have made us a playoff team since then. The size of his contract would also have limited our financial flexibility. The main players that contributed to us having a great team a few years ago nearly all stopped being valuable assets - some from injury (Travis, Sanchez), some through age (Bautista), and Osuna (though we managed to rescue the situation with a great trade). The front office had no affect on any of those declines, and they still would have happened if AA had stayed. It's true that not many trades and acquisitions have worked out under Shatkins, but even if they had it just means we'd be a year or 2 ahead of where we are now. We'd be a promising team looking to add proven players to become a contender - something that will happen naturally in a few years based on the strong farm we have. We are rebuilding, you shouldn't be surprised that the current MLB team sucks. However, we are not the Orioles, we have lots of prospects (some already here) that have a great chance to develop into above average players for us in the next few years.

You said it was the beginning of "all in" you obviously don't understand what "all in" means. Ask tercet for a lesson in poker!

Nah, that was AA taking advantage of Miami's salary dump.

Not sure if you intended it to, but this makes it sound like we wouldn't have needed a rebuild if we didn't go all in - which is wrong. We were a good but aging team before all the 2015 deadline trades.

Mate, the thing with this board is that admittedly there is little patience with people who post "unusual" opinions, but that's mainly because of a few things: a. the majority of posters rely on analytics (facts) rather than emotion to help shape their opinions; b. there's a long history of new/troll accounts created and if you're a new account you can often be lumped in with that group; c. quite often when someone takes the time to patiently offer counterpoints to the latest "the front office is the worst in baseball, and this team is the worst in history!!!!" style posts, OP response is to double down, ignore the counterpoints and just restate their point in a slightly different way with added hyperbole and insults. It's difficult to take someone seriously if their first few posts are in that style. d. this being the internet, a lot of the regular posters are quicker to act like dicks than they would in RL (though of course we have our share of through and through dickheads!); There are opportunities for healthy debate here, but you've got to be prepared to back up opinions with evidence, and have a thick skin (don't take it personally when someone insults or disagrees with you). If someone doesn't have either, then a forum like Reddit would be better suited - the community is much larger and usernames are basically irrelevant so no one is going to pigeon hole that person as a bad/good poster.

It’s 6am here mate, just woke up.

Joint 6th in NL in fWAR, 4th in the whole league in bWAR (8.2). Not sure why you think 4th in the Cy Young is outlandish?

That’s because you’re a glass half full person though, haha

It doesn't really matter whether he's on a hot or a cold streak, he should be up here IMO. I think he has more chance of being a mid to long term option in CF than Davis. Personally I'd rather Alford be given the rest of the year now in a season where results don't matter.

When Vlad hits the walk off homerun in game 7 of the 2024 World Series we can all reminisce about the year we had to watch the likes of Socrates Brito.

That’s exactly my point, your emotions won’t let you. Besides it’ll make the multiple future World Series all the sweeter after having lived through these few bad years!