moonslav59
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Even if it lasts through November!
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Every season, almost every good team has a losing record vs some poor team. It's nice to get the job done, even if the expectation was to win. Before, this series, I think most of us would have been thrilled to be 2-2 v SEA and 2-1 v OAK. I'm really hoping we can go 2-1 or 3-0 v LAA. -
4,436 out of the 6,436.
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Another excellent start by our much maligned rotation.
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EValdez taken off the hook. Good to see players having each other's backs.
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Not even close to the plate.
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We have no players below 0 on DRS, so far. My guess is Kike was -2 by this time, last year.
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Do as you wish. It would save me from pointing out your mistakes.
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Considering how low his picks were, due to winning, he did very well with them. He also had one IFA signing period cut off due to penalties carried over from the Ben era. He was also not able to milk the comp pick train like previous GMs were able to do by exploiting loopholes in the system.
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By and large, I defend our GMs and managers. Hell, I was the last one to say Valentine needed to go. I criticized DD and our other Gms, too, but not as harshly and with such broad strokes as others. The term "emptied the farm," when Devers was not traded, is by itself inaccurate. I often posted about the fact that DD traded away over 20 prospects that at one point were top 20 in he system, but that is not claiming it was emptied. Plus, he could have traded Devers, Houck and others, but if he replaced them with others, it's still not "emptying." You might then have been able to say, "He emptied the farm of DD prospects" but not the whole farm.
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Nope. It was never my position.
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More like a double or single, unless he robs a HR or makes a game saving catch, like last night.
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Not at all. Look up the meaning of the word. I admit I was somewhat harsh on DD, at the time, but I never said he emptied the farm or tore it down.
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I forgot him. I added him on the next list, along with Dubon.
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My expectation is that 2 of our top 3 prospects will end up being very good players and likely all stars (Anthony, Teel & Mayer.) I also expect 2-3 from the next group to be good to very good: Rafaela, Abreu, Cespedes, Bleis, Wikelman, Perales and maybe Yorke. We may see one surprise prospect do very well. If we don't meet these expectations of mine, I'd say I overrated them.
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You missed a key word: "in hindsight." I'll answer this in several years. At the time, I felt DD went overboard on trading top prospects. I'm not being hypocritical to nowsay, in hindsight, what he did worked, well. Many of the highly or somewhat highly rated/ranked prospects got hurt or underperformed expectations. Do you disagree? Did DD get lucky on that? Maybe or even likely, IMO. GMs are routinely judged in hindsight. It is the nature of their profession. Brez is already being criticized for Gio getting hurt. That's the nature of the beast. Judging DD's farm moves in hindsight reveals he did much better than many felt he was doing during is tenure, here and even 1-2 years afterwards. Now, I think is is pretty clear, he kept better inherited prospects than he traded, and he added some surprisingly good prospects, despite having lower draft picks and penalties on IFA signings that were not his fault. (Also, the comp pick rule changed, so it was harder to gain more prospects that way.)
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Maybe not Houck, but fine. I agree much was luck, and his hand in who he acquired in drafts and IFA may not have been meaningful, but it was what it was- better than what he traded away.
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I'm not trying to counter this point, at all, or to say DD was highly skilled at recognizing which far away prospects were going to be good or not. I was just addressing the fact that of the prospects he inherited, the ones he kept did better than the ones he traded, so I can't see this jiving with the idea he emptied or tore down the farm he inherited. Yes, we lost some ML ready or near ML ready prospects that ended up leaving a lull in significant graduates from devers to Houck, and that hurt the next GM, out of the gate, but overall, he built back more than he emptied- it just took a lot of time. The Betts decision is not related to the point I was addressing.
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Looking at K's per PA and BBs per PA, here is the SSS comp to 2023: K%; 28% (22% in '23) B%: 9% (8% in '23) We did face some tough pitchers in SEA, and OAK is a pitcher's park, but the park does not affect Ks and BBs. OBP: .317 (.324 '23) SLG: .350 (.424 '23) OPS: .667 (.748 '23) We only have one batter with 14+ PAs and an OPS over .707, and it is Rafaela at 1.145. (McGuire is at .962 with 13 PAs.) Duran has a .393 OBP, and Yoshida is at .348. Story leads the team in RBIs at 4. The pitching has carried us, for sure. The D has been much improved.
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Many who spoke of having Rafaela spending time in AAA did not mention anything about "seasoning." They spoke of gaining a year of control and there not being enough playing time for everyone, including Abreu. Well, Ref got hurt and Abreu has sucked, so I think everybody wanted Rafaela on the opening day 26 man roster, if not starting. It was not crazy thinking. If Rafaela was playing like Abreu, now, there might still be talk of sending him down to gain a year of control.
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So, Moncada, Kopech, Margot, Espinal, Dubon vs Devers, Houck, Beni, Beeks and some others. (These were just the inherited prospects that were not traded.)
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Nobody is saying "he knew who to keep." I even said it might have been luck. The fact is he kept the right guys, for whatever reason and the ones he "emptied," mostly sucked or vastly underperformed expectations. Can you answer my question? Were the guys he kept better or worse than the ones he traded? We can see he got lucky, but he did keep Devers and Beni, who were highly ranked his last year in BOS. Just those two are better than all he traded combined. If he got lucky, so what? It does not change the fact that he replenished the farm as he was trading players away. It did cause a period of almost no significant garduations from Devers to Houck, but the guys he kept were better than those he traded, right or wrong. Can you please answer?
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Maybe? In hindsight and overall, they were clearly overrated. Some got hurt. That is unfortunate and hard to call "overrated," but the fact is, the vast majority underperformed expectations- many by a lot, and even the ones who did okay, many did less than expected (Moncada, Kopech.)
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Yes, I mentioned how GM might not have been instrumental in choosing which prospects are drafted or signed as IFAs, or just how good they were when newbies, but the fact is, DD did not trade the ones that were better, and as I said before, maybe "by luck" or whatever, but the end balance sheet shows he did not empty or tear down the farm. The guys he traded did worse than the guys he kept (Ben's guys) or added (his guys).
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The GM does make the final call on which prospects to trade or keep.
