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In some ways, this season reminds me of 2022. After failing with signings like Martin Perez, Richards and other, Bloom had his best winter of SP'er additions with Wacha and Hill, but we got worse- way worse. This winter, Brez seemingly did well adding Contreras, Suarez & Gray, but we got worse- way worse. Of course, other holes we not addressed in both cases, but when you compare just the winter moves made between pre-2019 and pre-2026, two of the best appear to be before 2022 and before 2026.

Kahnle & Samaniego.

Last control year (not counting club options)... 2026 Gray, Whitlock, Sandoval, Coulombe & IKF 2027 Chapman, Yoshida, Story, Houck & Oviedo (Contreras has a 2028 option) 2028 Duran, Romy, Crawford, Casas & Wong I'd think anybody listed above, except maybe Contreras and Romy can/should/will be shopped.

Not even June yet, and the farm seems more interesting than the big club. The pitching was supposed to be the "must watch" on the farm, and there has been some nice developments, especially with Eyanson and to some extent Dylan Brown, Bennett, Futrell and a few others I can't recall. (Valera before the surgery.) It turns out some bats have all but stolen the show. Arias has captured the national spotlight with a 1.079 OPS and 12 HRs in AA as a 20 year old, but we have seen many others shine out of the gate... 1.057 Brannon w 7 HRs in 88 ABs .954 Cespedes (10 HRs for my sleeper pick from years ago that I recently gave up on.) .910 Godbout w GRE .904 Azocar recently promoted to GRE and bashing there. .891 Mason White at GRE .883 Seigler may get the call .863 YRod (Priester who?) .859 Gonzales w GRE .849 Heyman just promoted to GRE .832 Winnay at GRE as well .825 Hudson White- you guessed it... at GRE .813 Tucker coming on strong .802 Jo Garcia w 8 HRs in 98 ABs Some smaller sample sizes: 1.248 Ronny Hernandez GRE 1.131 Primera FCL 1.077 Andujar FCL>SAL 1.046 Cason FCL 1.003 Jorge Rodriguez FCL Lord knows we need bats!

The clown show goes on.

Nobody is comparing Dubon to Pedey, except Ole Red.

More than just Duran.

What's up with Samaniego?

Jo Garcia might end up outplaying his brother. He homered again, tonight (#8.) Brannon had 2 hits and stayed over 1.000 as POR won 10-9. Holobetz got rocked hard. Woo pitchers struck out 14 in a 1-0 win. Anderson had 8 in 4.2 IP. Seigler remains hot with a solo blast for the winner. GRE won 3-2 as Futrell looked okay. (2 ER in 5 IP with no BBs and only 3 hits allowed- 6 Ks.) Hansen went 4 IP of 1 hit ball w just 1 BB. SAL had the only farm loss 7-3. Jimenez homered and Opata had 2 hits.

And expectations right out of the gate are pretty high for some. We are already hearing "flop, flop, flop." These guys just started in the bigs. Even someone looking as lost as Durbin could end up being okay. It's only his second season. Yes, JBJ struggled for I think 2 years. At least Durbin had one decent season to start. (Note: I'm not predicting Durbin to get better.)

We have so many infield needs other than 1B. As much as I dislike taking on another big contract from a not so young player (soon to be 31) he has hit 30 Hrs in 3 of the last 4 seasons. If Arias turns out to be the real deal, and Mayer can just hit .725, we could be okay 2B to 3B.

Or a situation like Devers in '25.

Haven't you heard? He's a "flop." "Everyone had him penciled in as a star."

He's having an awful time. He was okay, last year, but yuck-a-ddodle-doo.

Agreed. We might trade for Adames, if they took Yoshida plus prospects, but then they lose the main reason for trading him-- saving money. They'd still save alot.

It does seem that way, but it's not always easy to unload bad contracts.

Indeed. Almost all felt we needed another bat, too.

You know they will go up on the cap and/or give teams some time to get under.

Where was Pedey after 50 games or so?

How is pointing out Brez traded for Harrison "defending him." Are you saying he didn't. Many bashed Brez for making the trade, because Harrison gave us nothing. Nobody blinked when we traded him. Now, we are all experts and Brez is the idiot. Of course, the Durbin trade looks like crap. I'm not defending it. The Priester trade looked awful, too. Now, it's kinda TBD. Maybe if posters would stop talking in absolutes, like saying "every move he makes turns to sh**, we wouldn't have to point out the fallacy of the statement. Then when we do, you assume we are defending him. Was the Crochet trade Sh**? The Contreras & Suarez signings? The Gray trade? The O'Neill trade? The Chapman signing and extension? Not only was your statement wrong, you used the word "literally" to emphasize that EVERY move he makes is wrong. There is no need to be untruthful to make the point we kinda all agree on: Brez has made too many mistakes. The Harrison trade sucks, but I'm not so sure he does this well had he stayed with BOS. The Brewers seem to have a magical potent that turns no-names into princes then they gat hurt and become pumpkins. BTW, would you trade YRod, Holobetz and Phillips for an injured Priester, right now? I'm not sure I would or would not, but in just a matter of one month, the view can change. Brez made a major blunder, this past winter. Almost all of us agreed that a big bat was needed beyond Willson. The idea that better pitching plus Durbin would make up for it, was horribly wrong. I really like the Suarez addition, but the hole in the line-up cancels that out and then some. I hope you guys get what you want- we can all the bums, and the guys we get to replace them are so good, you all (and I) will never bitch again. (Funny, right?)

Yup, and guys like IKF, who play way less than Duran can jump hundreds of points in a matter of a few games. One thing that happens often is when a player starts slowly, his numbers look bad for so long, people tend to write them off.

I guess some other GM traded for Harrison.

He has turned it around. Maybe he can get over .700 by early June, mid .700s by the end of June and maybe near or over .800 in July.

Another fun game.... NOT! Tolle had some bad luck, early- one by his own missed chance at the rocket hit back at him and later the bloop hit Duran almost got to. The granny was the kiss of death. The pen issue is showing up more and more as the season goes on. I'm not sure how much longer we can keep looking this bad. I keep thinking it can't get worse, and we lose 5 of 6.

Hitting wise, yes. Our DH sucks, so there, too, although he may be one of the few 1Bman better on D than Willson. Masa & Phillips...?