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  1. Bellhorn04
    Another "more is coming" believer.
  2. Bellhorn04
    The "more is coming" response.
  3. Bellhorn04
    And another.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Here's a guy who wasn't impressed.
  5. Bellhorn04
    All? Definitely not. Go back and read the initial reactions on this thread. They were mixed, with a lot of them guessing it meant there was more coming. If everyone knew at the time that the only things happening were Sale going and Giolito coming, I think the overall reaction would have been decidedly negative.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Well, it's pretty basic stuff. In the case of Sale, they were going to be on the hook for some of his salary no matter what. They ended up on the hook for 17.5 million They traded Sale for 10 million and Grissom.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Of course not. It's the sunk cost principle.
  8. Bellhorn04
    They didn't have to "count on" Sale, IMHO. Consider him your fungible #5 starter who may need to be jettisoned at some point, cross your fingers and hope for the best. There's a ton of guesswork and luck in pitching rotations these days. Nobody can plan for all the s*** that happens.
  9. Bellhorn04
    And I think the decision to give Whitlock another shot at starting was part of the decision to trade Sale, too.
  10. Bellhorn04
    And there's no one else to call on.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Again they could have had both. Not sure why that point has to be repeated. You can never have enough pitching. If you think they did enough and weren't negligent that's fine, we're all entitled to our opinions. I'm not changing mine. I haven't seen anything to convince me they didn't do too little.
  12. Bellhorn04
    At the time we didn't know Giolito would be the only addition. I was silly enough to think if they were trading Sale it meant a big addition was coming.
  13. Bellhorn04
    As for Giolito, it's not the fact that he get injured that made it a questionable signing. It's that a) He was the worst pitcher in baseball the last 2 months of 2023. His contract guaranteed $38 million but had an opt out that meant if he pitched great we'd probably lose him after one year. All in all, there's just no way you can give a passing grade to what they did for the rotation. It was just another offseason of negligence.
  14. Bellhorn04
    There was only one year left though. Not much to lose by keeping him. And they only saved $10 million. There are plenty of reasons to question the underlying logic of this move, when you look at the totality of what they did.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Exactly.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Sale pitched 102.2 last year. Not great but 102.2 more than zero. I've yet to see an explanation for how subtracting innings is a plus. It wouldn't have broken any rules to keep Sale and sign Giolito.
  17. Bellhorn04
    It was a risky rotation they put together. I don't really see how having Sale in the mix would have actually increased the risk. If he got injured again, it was the last guaranteed year of his contract so you just write it off. Anyway, I'm just covering points I've already made, just jabbering for something to do, quite honestly LOL
  18. Bellhorn04
    It'll always be a bit of a mystery why they thought that swapping Chris Sale for Lucas Giolito was all we needed to do for the 2024 rotation. I can only think the budget played a big role in that thinking.
  19. Bellhorn04
    The big thing Bailey did at the start of the season was figure out the best pitch mix for each starter based on which pitches they've had the most success with. Looks like that had a lot to do with the great start. But then other teams study what you're doing and adjust to it. No matter how good the coach is, it comes back to the actual abilities of the pitchers. Nobody really had much faith in a rotation of Houck, Crawford, Bello, Pivetta and Giolito.
  20. Bellhorn04
    ERA by month: 2.62 4.12 4.38 4.91 Unraveling.
  21. Bellhorn04
    It's fair to call out the offseason plan for the rotation as a whole, though, when all they did is remove Sale and add Giolito. The rest of it was basically counting on Bailey to perform a miracle.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Crazy freakin' game. You can go from the Big Hero to the Big Zero in an hour or less.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Center center was the last place he was looking, I guess.
  24. Bellhorn04
    He does take things a tad too literally sometimes...
  25. Bellhorn04
    Horny and Boozy, and Reese McGuire. Too many jokes to make and not enough time.
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