Plus, rankings are one thing, but Breslow and his team chose these particular players because of their evaluations, and a lot depends on their judgements and on the ability of the organization to develop these guys.
You're entitled to your opinion. However.
Calling Cora an idiot for not using Chapman 3 days in a row is absurd even by your standards. No one agrees with you. For some reason that fact doesn't penetrate your obtuseness.
You've always been like this. I was there when you were calling Varitek Varipuke and Epstein Ineptstein and more clever ones like that. You were notorious under that old screen name and now you're getting that way again. I guess this is what you want.
You know nothing about the impact of last night on Chapman's arm. You just don't understand the game. That combined with your negativity makes you irritating. SPLENDID SPLINTER is the farthest thing from a Pollyanna, the fact he can't take you any more says it all.
Of course Chapman wouldn't have refused. Cora doesn't want to burn him out because if he does we're screwed. You calling for Cora to be fired for it is ridiculous yet not surprising to anyone who's familiar with you.
On the other hand, FanGraphs is showing Priester with a WAR of only 0.9. So he appears to have benefited from the ballpark and other random factors.
A 0.9 WAR extrapolated to a full season is below average.
Which makes it a pretty minor loss.