a700hitter
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I will be happy that he will no longer be on Sunday Night Baseball.
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Take a poll.
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Unlike hot streaks and clutch, the “Cliff” is a myth. It can’t be defined, and it’s future existence cannot be proved.
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One poster brings it up 99+% of the time.
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lol!!
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i know that. Bradley would be the headliner, but Travis would be a likely piece who is almost major league ready.
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Roger Goodell is still waiting for the Patriots to hit the cliff, which is overdue by 5 years. They have made a mockery of his parity plan.
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Shush.
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Travis might be part of the package to get Abreu. Hanley’s shoulder is reportedly fixed. He should be able to spell Abreu at first base.
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it is tiresome. I almost pine for the day’s when Dutchy returned under a new identity on a weekly basis. This is like living with that cult that I used to see at Penn Station every morning that screamed that the world would end on New Year’s Eve and after every New Year they pushed the rapture back a year.
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Hmmm, if the Cliff can’t be defined, is it just a myth like hot streaks and clutch? LOL!
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I think the major thing being missed by those who are bemoaning the trading of prospects is that if we didn’t trade some of them for pitching, we were never going to climb out of the abyss —not even byv2020, because we had no pitching at the MLB level and almost no top pitching talent in the pipeline. I remember a time when the organization thought Owens was a part of the future. The development of pitching has been awful for generations. To get it from the outside costs either big bucks or top talent. DD has done both.
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Is someone moving the cliff? LOL. It is so much easier to move goalposts. LOL!
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Are you calling my a half-wit, Jacko? LOL!
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Baseball operations and rosters are fluid situations and not at all static. We don’t know what intervening moves or strategy changes will be employed in the intervening years. Any predictions of doom 3 years out are not supportable, because it is so speculative. That’s my opinion. Is our farm system light on prospects compared to a couple of years ago? Yes, but to predict or worry about doom based on that is unwarranted.
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So now my apology is half-assed? LOL!! I said that i stand corrected if i misinterpreted you-- without qualification. I told you why I misinterpreted your intent but didn't question you correcting my misinterpretation. You seem to be spoiling for another nasty argument.
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Are you getting your anger up again? Saying that there will be a cliff in 2020-22 is completely unsupportable, and that is not condescending, nor was it meant to be. Right after you said it was condescending you went on at length about the number of ways that it might be avoided. No one here has a crystal ball about the dozens if not hundreds of personnel moves that will occur in the interim period. Each of those moves will impact the future to some degree. If I misinterpreted your certainty about the cliff, I stand corrected, but when you post about it you seem so alarmed that I get the impression that you are staring directly into abyss. I don't think that I am the only one reading you that way.
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I am pretty sure that you are wrong that any poster has said "the trades of all those prospects will not affect our future." Every deal whether good or bad affects the future. Predicting a cliff as a certain result is completely unsupportable as there will be many more moves in the ensuing years and some will be aimed at restocking prospects and there will be a new draft class each year. You can worry about a cliff, but it is not a certainty.
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No GM is perfect. They are all subject to criticism.
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You are taking the post too literally. Let me restate. He is not being criticized for "consistently getting a team to the crap table". He is being criticized despite "consistently getting a team to the crap table", and getting to the crap table consistently is the stated goal of many posters.
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if we trade for Abreu (most likely Bradley), we would slide Betts or Benintendi to CF and we would have the money to sign JD and a spot for him in LF. That would be a solid offense. HanRam DH’s and ocassionally plays 1B.
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Blind squirrel theory.
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Not me. LOL! Sometimes for 5 years, but never a whole season.
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Goodness, can you read? I didn't blast people for not praising DD. I pointed out the hypocrisy of the Benny Boy worshipers. That is what that post was about.
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It was a comment on the absence of MLB ready pitching by Bells that was countered by Moon. The whole exchange was a few posts that would take a couple of minutes to read. As for my attitude about the farm inherited by DD, any farm without pitching prospects, is not that great, and we were light on pitching prospects and none were MLB ready. As for the remainder of the farm, who has made a big impact in the bigs since DD took over other than Benitendi who DD kept? We hear that he raped the farm system, but other than Moncada, who will we really miss?
