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  1. Dagagad
    I would agree with that concept if we didn’t have gausman, berrios and springer on long term contracts and we aren’t losing control of vlad and Bo in 4 years. There is a decent chance that this is our most talented team in raw talent. Either this year or next. What exactly are we waiting for? We are waiting for the inevitable season where springer misses 100 games? Or when gausman falls off towards the end of his deal? Selling the farm isn’t a choice if not selling means you miss the playoffs while we are still good. If we didn’t want to sell the farm we should have been better at making the farm so good that it’s impossible to sell it all. AA did the right thing. He understood that keeping Sydergaard wasn’t an option. He might have traded him for the wrong player but that’s an entirely different question. You earn the right to keep the farm and be good every year. You don’t just decide to do that.
  2. Dagagad
    If they think they can contend next year, maybe they want a catcher? Jansen and Martinez plus any pitching prospect not called Tieddeman? I don’t want to give up any pitcher who could contribute next year.
  3. Dagagad
    2 more years of control after this. Almost our entire window.
  4. Dagagad
    Add Pablo Lopez? Just saw somewhere that we are interested.
  5. Dagagad
    It depends on where they are at the deadline but if there is a decent chance we don’t make the playoffs, i think we’ll go big. That was the situation and response last year. It would be illogical to not do it this year as well.
  6. Dagagad
    Castillo. He would slot into a wild card series rotation. He would shorten the amount of innings we would need to use relievers. And we would have him for next year. We also need one other depth starter as well. Relievers… nastiest stuff., don’t care about control. Control is insanely overrated with relievers unless they also have options. Even then, I’d rather just hope that next year we do a better job of creating our own. Bard and Gyvens?
  7. Dagagad
    Fire him if you want. It has nothing to do with the overarching problems with this team but I don’t care if he gets fired.
  8. Dagagad
    It’s not so much faith, as it’s just a process. If it turns out they aren’t that good and no one replaces them, its the same outcome except the next rebuild starts earlier.
  9. Dagagad
    If it was as simple as that, wouldn’t teams just go to Tampa and give everyone involved with pitching analysis, scouting and development 10 times what they are making now. I know that the dodgers and Red Sox hired from the rays but they are obviously still really good at it.
  10. Dagagad
    I think over the last 5 years (not incl 2020) the only teams to win 90 games every year were the dodgers, Yankees and Astros. I see what you mean with the Red Sox but honestly I think their goal is to be like the astros. A smaller budget than they historically had but good every year. I think the rays just don’t have enough money to be good every year but if you doubled their budget they would be. I see Milwaukee as having this potential longer term as well. They kind of are rays like with a bigger budget. The Red Sox would be an interesting model. They are really the only team I can think of who is often good but doesn’t really do pitching well.
  11. Dagagad
    Vlad sure. I’m not signing the white javier Baez until he shows approach improvement.
  12. Dagagad
    I still believe in both of them, I’ll be honest. They haven’t been bad but if we had even reasonable pitching depth or an average bullpen, we wouldn’t even be talking about it that much. We’d just expect them to round into form.
  13. Dagagad
    I mean windows are how it works for almost everyone. The only way you don’t have a window is if you are elite at producing your own pitching and even that probably runs out at some point. You have to trade every year as a contender to fill holes. It’s attritional. I’ll be honest, if vlad and Bo are ceiling 3 war players, then we are toast anyway. At least for a while.
  14. Dagagad
    What if you don’t and then next year is the year you get really bad injury luck and then that’s 60% of the window gone? I don’t see this as a choice. The window is the window and when you are in it, if you have a realistic shot of getting in it, you trade to get the pieces you need. I don’t understand kicking the can down the road when you are running out of road. I mean, maybe if we are out of it at the deadline somehow, you sell guys instead to extend the window? That’s the only other scenario i see other than buying. How much we buy just depends on our odds.
  15. Dagagad
    There are time constraints though. Springer and gausman are realistically on the decline phases of their careers. Vlad and Bo are only getting more expensive and they are out of control in 2026. Realistically, it’s 4/5 year window counting last year. If we don’t get in this year, that’s 40% at best of our window wasted and the team is more expensive again next year so less resources to make it better. I don’t think it’s reasonable to not go all in if that’s what the playoff odds say at the deadline.
  16. Dagagad
    How can you not sell everything for a 3 game wild card? This is the window. Clock is ticking.
  17. Dagagad
    The Bo one was against Kirby? That was a pretty nasty pitch. I hate Bo’s approach but that was a nasty pitch. I agree on vlad too. He has problems with sliders away. However, guys hit weak ground balls with no one on. Vlad has bad at bats with no one on. I don’t think anyone is doing anything differently with RISP. The hits just aren’t lining up. It’s hard to call that anything other than mostly luck.
  18. Dagagad
    Borucki got lucky in the first inning. Lined right into a double play. 4 or 5 feet left or right and that’s a base hit and a run. He did seem to throw more strikes. Romano I guess only goes one inning. Romo was probably the guy left who has been ‘good’ recently. RISP is a lot of variance. They hit well enough, it didn’t line up. Every team goes through spells like that. Lourdes base running mistake killed us, alot like Kirk getting waved home a few days ago. Complete rally killer. Also took one hit away. I think Espinal technically hit into a fielders choice lol. 13 hits will normally win you games.
  19. Dagagad
    They hit well enough. The hits just didn’t line up which is frustrating to watch. Lourdes’ base running… I don’t know how he makes that mistake. That probably lost the game right there. Maybe you could say the base running would be better with a different manager? I don’t know. Lourdes has shown no signs of improvement there but I don’t see it coming.
  20. Dagagad
    I think we should consider repeatedly smacking gurriel on the side like a tv until he learns how to baserun.
  21. Dagagad
    Reddit is going mental wanting to fire charlie lol for keeping biggio in left on left. I cannot understand how someone could watch that game against a team who aren’t really even in their contention window yet who rolled out arm after arm from their bullpen with f***ing nasty stuff and then watch the bottom of the inning and our little underdog pitch to contact f***ing ********, and be like…. yea… Charlie that’s the problem. Mass f***ing delusion. Although, I’m on the west coast so I might have been one of the only people who saw it. Fire him.. who cares.. it might be entertaining watching someone less chill try to murder gurriel in the dugout.
  22. Dagagad
    It is pretty late back east.
  23. Dagagad
    There are at least 14 teams in the league that have a better bullpen. We are currently 23rd in FIP but I’ll be generous and go with the preseason projection of 15th best.
  24. Dagagad
    I honestly think it’s a bit of an achievement that we even got 11 hits off this pitching. It’s been pretty good to really good throughout. I really like the look of that kid Kirby.
  25. Dagagad
    That’s their 6th inning guy. That f***ing guy. We f***ing suck at this.
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