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  1. mvp 78
    And Duran will have a much shorter career since he was a rookie at 26. Not much reason to put a lot of effort into developing him, especially when what you do try to provide him just washes right over him and doesn't stick. Stop making excuses for these players. Duran has been in the system and playing OF since 2018. How many more years does he need to figure it out?
  2. mvp 78
    I'm going to hold off on that return just yet. Hicks is probably garbage. I don't have much to say about Tibbs at the moment but Harrison has a lot of potential.
  3. mvp 78
    They swapped Chris Sale (27M, 4.30 ERA, 2.1 fWAR '23) for Lucas Giolito (18M, 4.88 ERA, 0.9 fWAR '23). They went cheap and it didn't work out. Should have spent more and brought in Sonny Gray and we'd be complaining less.
  4. mvp 78
    You can always change the channel on the MLB app. 🫠
  5. mvp 78
    Jim Rice was 28 in 1981. Nobody was like, "boy this guy needs more time..."
  6. mvp 78
    28 is not a YOUTH MOVEMENT though.
  7. mvp 78
    Craig, make the call.
  8. mvp 78
    Youth movement? He's older than Devers.
  9. mvp 78
    Just smile, wave to the cameras. Don't engage with the players!
  10. mvp 78
    Attitude wise, he could be a good fit in Philly with DD who drafted him. I want what's best for him and Cora is as supportive of him than any manager could be, but it's just not working out.
  11. mvp 78
    They spent A LOT of time working on defense with him. YEARS. He just doesn't concentrate when he's in the field. He still doesn't take good routes. They spent a lot of time tweaking his swing to maximize him at the plate. It worked last year, but he's definitely regressed to '23 or worse this year. Sometimes it's the player, not the coaching.
  12. mvp 78
    Sox can't pull the ball. If they could, they'd be hitting it out more.
  13. mvp 78
    More TJS?
  14. mvp 78
    It's not surprising. He looked really bad last time out. Arm issue?
  15. mvp 78
    You can pitch 8 innings, not give up a hit and still lose the game. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE199204121.shtml I don't believe we can say it was clearly "the right move" though.
  16. mvp 78
    It's not something that's going to get fixed overnight. It's a problem that crept into the game and now they have to figure it out. I'm not paid to figure out how to fix it though.
  17. mvp 78
    For a MIF prospect was the weirdest part of it. I know they needed an MLB ready 2b, but they could have just found a short term FA. The system had Mayer, Rafaela, Yorke, Meidroth, Paulino, Romero (all at AA or above) and that doesn't even count Campbell who was having a crazy amount of helium during the offseason workouts that year. If MIF is the strength of your system, don't go trade for another guy to take away from someone else's reps.
  18. mvp 78
    I think Cora was fine with the trade because he realized the situation was no longer solvable (i.e. the problems between Raffy and FO). A trade was going to happen at some point so may as well trade him now even if there were no locker room issues.
  19. mvp 78
    If they were more focused on contact, I think it'd be easier to deal with the velo and spin TBH. In baseball, everything is just max effort all the time because that's what the spreadsheet demands. It hasn't made for a better game at all.
  20. mvp 78
    It's not going to happen anytime soon. We just have to be honest with his performance. It's fine to look on the field and say "yeah, this is on the CBO."
  21. mvp 78
    He had a CY winner on his staff and traded him away. He got nothing back. That's on his ledger. It's how it works. If he made a trade where he dumped Blaze Jordan and got a CY winner back, we'd be singing his praises.
  22. mvp 78
    Since 6/10 27th in runs scored 3.15 runs/game 4th in K% 22nd in BB% 30th in line drive% 25th in pull%
  23. mvp 78
    Robert Stock 3.32 ERA AAA 10.13 ERA MLB
  24. mvp 78
    Because the difference between AAA pitching and MLB pitching is HUGE! Just because a player is mashing at AAA doesn't mean he's going to be good at the MLB level. Scouting boxscores doesn't work.
  25. mvp 78
    Yeah, you can like individual trades and moves (Verdugo trade, Crochet trade/extension, Wilson/Chapman FA signings, Narvaez), but he manages the entire squad. Even if every move he makes is an A+, the team could still be a .500 team because of the moves he fails to make (Wong, OF logjam, 1B, 2B, SP FA signings, Story, Masa, etc.).
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