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A win tomorrow and then even 3-4 in the road stretch would leave us in a good spot i think.

I woukdn't hate dominquez but he's too rightie heavy. Fisher seems to be split neutral ish. I'd be ok with going situational. If there are three tough righties, put in dominquez.

Did Schneider say that? That's kind of insane.

I think i'd put Fisher at closer and let hoffman go lower leverage for while.

Well seeing as their is zero analytical reason not to pinch hit schneider there, i'd say this is just the manager being stupid all on his own .

If there is none, why would you think its an 'analytics' based decision?

What data would tell you that france or IKF were better choices there?

This organization could use more computer, not less. We dumb dumb in general.

This is typical baseball manager ******** though. If you don't want your manager to choose s***** 'reliable' vets over younger players, don't add them to the roster at the trade deadline or after. Managers love this kind of ********.

That is one of the two most puzzling pinch hit decisions I have ever seen. Schneider is the perfect guy to throw in against a leftie. I just do not understand how france or IKF could be better choices there.

Yea, and tampa, baltimore, the yankees and the red sox have won 100 games at least once in the last ten years. Or even high 90s. So, its a high goal but its an achieve-able goal. I'm at work right now but i'll have a look later. I'd say obviously more pitching WAR in last ten years. And definitely ALOT more positive contributers. On the position side, not sure. Probably closer than you'd think. If we just prorated cashman's entire tenure vs atkins, then obviously its the yankees because Judge.

I think Bo will get like 25 AAV at least over decent term ... maybe 7/8 years. That's probably way too low.

Of course the yankees are better. They develop pitching consistently. It's a base requirement. We don't satisfy that so we are worse. They also average a good bit more wins than we do a season. I also honestly value front offices with higher upside. Like, that can put together teams that have 100 win upside. We are a team and front office set up to get into wild cards generally and win the division maybe if its unusually weak that year. I'd rather have higher upside and backslide into wild cards than have that as seemingly the goal most years. Also, one of those three was 2020 when essentially the entire league got in.

I don't hate him. I think he is a mediocre to below average gm overall in a division with generally above average gms. If we were in the AL central, i'd be happy. I think its worth trying to upgrade because this isn't a soft division and he's at best the 4th best gm in division. I absolutely think tampa and baltimores gms with our payroll would be more successful. And the yankees are obviously a better front office.

If they can bring through pitching, i'll believe. But it has to actually happen. Ten years in is too late for tales from the farm to entice me.

This year's team is in first place after getting a peak level offensive season from a 35 year old, and extraordinary health in our old rotation. Most seasons when you have only 5 passable starters don't end like this. But yea, giving Atkins another year to see if some pitching comes through is reasonable. Just do not give an extension this offseason.

I think you have to sign Bo because what's the alternative? Gimenez at short and clement at second? We haven't signed a star on the amateur side since 2016. There is no one anywhere close to the show to replace Bo. Sign him, and worry about what it will look like in 5 years when it comes. On the pitching side, i dunno. I think there is a decent chance this team is pretty bad next year. Like, the rotation needs a lot to go right (kind of like this year) to be just passable. But, also its our best chance of one last good year before being really bad the year after. So, if they have the capacity to spend, just spend and figure it out later. Edit: we have a good chunk of money coming off after 2026 and Atkins is out of contract then. That would be a fantastic time to make a change. There is still a whole sheet of pretty crappy contracts (gimenez will be making way too much money.. plus berrios) but its could be a cleanish slate for a new front office. Give him one more year. If there is still no homegrown pitching and signs of more upside in the farm, cut bait and move on. Also, kind of ironic how much s*** AA got for going all in and all that. He never put so much big long term kind of iffy money on the books as atkins does. Those berrios and gimenez contracts could look terrible. Just a constant inability to get cheap production. Kirk is the only really 'good' contract he signed in an extension.

Man Gausman is f***ing turning it on lately. Keep this rolling and i am very confident in him as a game one starter. Channeling some peak ace gausman energy. I give Atkins a lot of s***, but he is an extremely successful FA signing.

God that houston win feels absolutely enormous

The 6 man rotation that turned into just basically not using Lauer and Fisher one of our best relievers being sent to triple A were a tandem of terrible decisions.

Yea honestly we could look back and that could be the reason we lost the division.

I usually like Schneider as a manager but two singles was not a reason to pull Nance that quickly. Also, not pinch hitting schneider for clement and just leaving bassit in too long. Everything to do with pitching on this team is 90% the front office's fault but still bad decisions i thought today.

They way underuse Schneider as a pinch hitter. Clement should not have been hitting in that spot.

The starting pitching has been both poor and lucky which is a weird combo. Like, essentially one injury that cost real time. They were in line to get through a whole year with like 6 starters.

Yea Manoah did actually produce a good bit of value even if he flamed out a bit. Have to give credit for that. I actually looked at the 'home produced pitching' and if you count prospects we traded for (but had yet to see the show), i think Biagini or Thornton is the second highest WAR of this regime. edit; my bad its jordan romano. most of the list is guys drafted before they came (borucki, Romano, mayza) or prospects they traded for early (biagini, thornton).