moonslav59

I meant you enjoy throwing it in my face. Not surprising, to me.

Actually, I did not list Wikelman, because he is a DD prospect. I only listed Bloom guys.

I missed placing Wikelman in the 2024 group. Kavadas and others listed on the bottom lines were meant to be only longshots, who would have to make improvements to make the bigs.

I'm glad my overoptimism brings you so much joy.

Duran would be okay in LF and better than Yoshida and Refsnyder. I'm not sure I hand a FT OF slot to Rafaela and Abreu without having an insurance piece in place, in case either struggles. I'm fine with counting on one of the two to hold one slot (CF or RF.) I'd plan so both could be FT'ers without squeezing a good player to the bench.

Story is an excellent SS. Why do we keep moving people off their best position and refuse to move some failures at one position to another? Reyes and Urias should be enough at 2B, and their D is not bad. Keep Rafaela in CF, and our D up the middle is night and day better than 2023's.

I don't disagree, but your focus seems more on Yoshida's shortcomings. It just seems extreme, to me.

They "know now?"

Such is the life of a major sports GM. They knew this when they got in the profession.

Fair answer. To me, I think DD had more time, and probably could have offered an aceptable amount earlier on, but yes, if JH refused to go along with it, there is no blame for either.

So, a poll of what the majority thinks my beliefs are matter more than what I know my beliefs are? Yes, I value the farm and foundation more than you. I've also said we don't know for sure how good Bloom's farm is, and that is mostly speculative. I'd prefer a farm most think looks very good to one most think looks pretty bad. That does not make me a "Bloom guy." I'm not sure why you are so fixated on confirming that belief of yours. Of course someone who values the foundation more than the here and now will view things differently, but why does everything have to be so black and white with you? You either are a "Bloom guy" or not. There can never be an in between. Why? I like some of what he did and dislike or are neutral on some other things. I've consistently graded his overall grade around a "C." Why is thinking a guy is around a C a "Bloom guy?" I admit, I never disliked him as much as you, and to you, that's all it apparently takes to throw meaningless and false labels on people. What you are doing is no different than me saying you "hate Cora." The differences is, I respected your response that said you did not hate him, and I apologized and changed my opinion about your position. You can't do the same. You know me better than I do, in your eyes. How dare anyone try to do that to you, however.

It's a big test, for sure. I would not bet on ND, but maybe the home field will help pull an upset. Maybe Ohio ST are not as good as their ranking.

Here are some relevant BTV values: 71.3 Luzardo 3 yrs of control 50.2 Perez 6 yrs 35.9 Garrett 5 23.9 Cabrera 5 8.6 Rogers 3 Sox 59.2 Mayer 51.4 Casas 41.3 Anthony 30.6 Houck 28.9 Bleis 20.0 Crawford 19.0 Yorke 17.9 Rafaela 12.6 Yoshida (I doubt the Marlins value him this highly or at all.) 10.3 Duran 10.0 Verdugo 1 6.4 Schreiber 6.3 Winckowski 5.0 Drohan 4.2 Peralez 4.2 Romero 3.9 Wikelman 3.3 Abreu The Marlins do need OF help, but I doubt the value one year of Dugo highly. Bleis is too far away, so it would likely take a package that involved Duran and or Anthony. I can't see getting Luzardo without giving up Mayer or Casas. This was accepted on BTV: Mayer, Duran and Drohan for Luzardo Anthony, Duran, Yorke and Drohan for Luzardo Anthony & Duran for Perez Duran, Rafaela, Yorke, Drohan for Perez Duran & Bleis for Garrett Rafaela, Yorke & Drohan for Garrett Duran, Drohan, Perales & Romero for Cabrera

It kind of shocked me to see Bobby Dee in the line-up. Shopping for a trade?

I agree on all in for Yamamoto, plus he is apparently good friends with Yoshida, so maybe he can help Yoshi acclimate better to MLB, and vice versa. I'm also on board with trading for the second solid SP'er, because the only young FA SP'er is Julio Urias- NO THANKS! Here are the next youngest SP'ers on the market: (ages per spotrac) 27.9 Flaherty 28.1 Brad Keller 29.2 Giolito 29.5 S Lugo & Severino 30.2 Nola 30.5 ERod 30.7 Montgomery 30.8 Snell 31.7 Lorenzen 32.3 Wacha & Heany 32.5 Stroman 32.8 Clevinger 33.8 Gray & K Hendricks 33.9 Stripling 34.8 Paxton 35.4 Kershaw 35.8 Gibson 36.0 Cobb 36.4 Lynn 37.7 Cueto 39.9 Morton Signing an older guy to a shorter deal, or a 32-34 guys to a high price 3-4 year deal might work. I don't see any under 30 guys that jump out at me, and the 30-31 year olds will likely get deals too long for my liking.

If there is one thing Bloom has done for the next GM, it was to simplify the task at hand: We need 2-3 SP'ers. All the rest are minor needs. I'd give runways to Rafaela and Abreu, too, but we do need one vet in reserve, "just in case." That could be Verdugo, or IMO Duval (and trade Verdugo or Duran.)

Yes, Duran did get better, and someday, maybe even during 2024, he might be a plus in CF, but Rafaela is already a huge plus on D in CF, so I'd want Duran to prove he can, first, and not pencil him into CF, right now.

This is soxprospects.com's projection- not mine. I'm not sure why they list bringing Duval and Paxton back.

Yes, you are bailing again on answering why it matters to you, and what it is you think I did wrong. How can I answer when I don't know what the problem is?

I am 100% sure about this: if baseless attacks were never made against Bloom, you'd think I did not like him. My defenses were mostly responses to people who were over reaching to find things wrong with him. Robertson was a return for Kike. Weiss was a waiver guy.

I guess you know my thoughts better than I do. I like a lot of what Bloom has done to prepare the team for the future. He failed to get results along the way, except for the brief 2021 run. Last winter, was his make of break "legacy" moment, and he failed. I ended up defending him way too often, but not out of love or admiration for the guy, but because you and others made baseless attacks on him over things that were out of his control or mostly out of his control. You assume those defenses meant I was a Bloom lover, and you assumed wrongly. For someone who goes bat crazy over false assumptions, like me saying you hate Cora, I find in hypocritical of you to make so man false assumptions over my positions and beliefs. Yes, I did think Bloom was the type of GM we needed to rebuild the farm and foundation, but I hardly knew anything about him for me to be "my guy" on day 1 or 365 or 730. He was handed an extremely difficult task, which you choose to deny or ignore. He failed in the area that matters most to you, but still matters to me, too- winning at the ML level. I cut him more slack than you and others, due to that context and for that he was "my guy?" Your logic is twisted. You will believe what you want, but defending someone against false attacks does not make anyone a Bloom guy. Adding context and facts is not an act of love. It's an act of truth.

Again, why does this bother you? It's fully understandable to stop posting them, when it doesn't matter. It's not being a flip-flop or anything. I've asked you this several times. You refuse to answer. What the beef? I stop when my optimism wains. Shoot me!

If the rumor was true about the team taking Sale's full contract, we could have signed Kluber and a $25M pitcher, last winter or 2 at $18M each.

I'd add "sign or trade for..."

I fully agree with all of this, but if you were forced to place 1% of the blame on just one GM, would it be DD or Bloom? Note: for all we know, maybe DD begged JH to pay Betts over Sale, Bogey or Nate, but JH said NO, so in that case, DD should get 0% of the blame.