I'm not sure it's about condemning Rafaela. He's on a bit of a hot streak, but I'm still concerned about his extremely high chase rate (3rd percentile) and high whiff rate (34th percentile). That's the recipe for a bit of a rollercoaster ride IMO.
I don't think we see Anthony playing much CF. Maybe we see more Duran in CF like tonight? IDK. Rafaela hasn't had many days off, so maybe they are just giving him a breather.
Now that Duran isn't penciled in as the everyday leadoff guy, the lineups may be very different day to day.
60 day IL for Crawford, Winckowski, Casas, Slaten, Hendriks, Sandoval and now Burdi. Plus Breggie, Dobbins, Houck, Guerrero and Kelly are on the IL. The training room is busy AF.
As long as it's not Tolle, I don't care. He's the only near untouchable prospect to me. I'm not a huge Ryan guy, so I wouldn't include Tolle in that trade. In a trade for a guy like Skubal? I'm emptying the farm.
Ryan is 19th in fWAR from 23-25 and age 29. Valdez and Cease are both better and are FA this offseason. The other real swing and a miss was not signing Sonny Gray last season.
AZ was also 4th in DRS and 2nd in OAA as a team in '23. To me, this team just isn't built for it. You can try to make an argument than every team has a chance, but I don't really believe.
Probably not Eaton if he's demoted now. If they were going to DFA him, they'd just do it the day they're activating Masa. Cotillo's report has Masa back TODAY not Monday though? I don't know what the move is and haven't seen speculation.
The GOAT. I watched a lot of WCW back in the 90's.
I went to a house show at the Fleet Center that was:
Rey Mysterio/Billy Kidman vs Benoit/Malenko
Sting vs Bam Bam
Goldberg vs Meng (Haku)
Flair vs Hogan
No Eddie or Chavo tho...
He was a 101 OPS+ from 2015-2020 in his prime years. I don't care about his first struggles when he was called up or what happened after he left BOS the first time.
We didn't "get rid of him" because we knew he'd flame out like he did. It was just a good call on their part. It was just dumb to bring him back in '22.