moonslav59
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I seriously doubt JT comes back at that option price, but he did seem to like it in Boston, despite all the seeping toxicity. It doesn't make sense, to me. Yoshi should be the DH for several reasons: 1. He reallysucks on D, and I mean badly. 2. He seemed to burn out over the long MLB schedule. 3. The only position we seem to have a surplus is OF, especially LHB'ers in the OF. I really like JT, and I'm worried about our offense, next year, without him. I just don't think we'll want to spend the money it may take to bring him back on him and not pitching and a RH'd bat who can play CF (or RF, if Dugo's days are numbered.)
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Susuki makes the catch, and this is not even mentioned.
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But why mention 87 wins?
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It's obvious many think like you do.
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You mean you read about them. One "problem" Devers had in key situations was they walked him way more than JT (more than double the amount) PAs in High Leverage: 120 Devers (21 BBs) 112 Turner (9BBs) JT did outhit him (.333 to .266), but when you factor in the walks, which would bring their PAs about even: nonwalk PAs: 103 Turner 99 Devers The RBIs were about the same per nonwalk PA: 31 Turner 30 Devers High Leverage OBP: .408 Devers .384 JT SLG .532 Devers .510 JT OPS .940 Devers .894 JT JT did do better with RISP and Late & Close, but MVP? I'd give it to Martin. You can't do much better than he did.
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Oh, it made perfect sense. That's why I'm all for adding 3 solid SP'ers, so we don't have to keep jerking these guys around, or at least lessen the odds of having to do so. I know full well, we won't. We will continue dreaming Sale will start 25 games and go 160+ IP. We will keep thinking Houck can go past 18 batters. We will be sufficiently impressed with Crawford's 4.78 ERA as a SP'er in 2023 to anoint him the 4th starter in '24. We will keep Whitlock in the pen, but won't hesitate to start him, when someone gets hurt. We won't make plans to cover for anything that could and will go wrong. Unless, the new guy breaks the paradigm.
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I think the D should improve, significantly, even with no major additions: SS: Story over the rag tag circus clowns of '23. LF: Yoshi should DH 120+ games. Anyone else on the roster is an improvement. CF: Rafaela is way better than anyone else we had in CF in '23, raw as he is. 2B: I think a full season of Reyes and maybe Urias beats the group we had in '23. RF, 3B, and 1B will likely stay the same. C should improve as the two we have gain more experience. Remember, the two catchers we had, this year, hardly caught anyone on the staff in 2022, and if they did, it wasn't for long. We should be bringing back many of the same pitchers of 2023, hopefully not the worst ones, but more from... Bello Crawford Pivetta Wink Houck Whitlock Martin Jansen Schreiber Bernardino They may only see 3-4 new pitchers in '24.
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Indeed, but at the time, I thought the only good thing we did have was depth. I kept saying we "choose quantity over quality," and it turned out the quantity was not nearly enough, either. (Certainly the quality was not good, either.) Now, the plan is to pencil Sale into a top 5 slot and expect him to give us how many starts? I'm not writng Sale off, but we better plan on zero from him. Maybe he gives us 20-25, but then someone else will likely get hurt or pull a Kluber or Richards on us.
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What was the meaning, then?
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The Houston talk radio shows are roasting Dusty Baker alive. They point to favoritism, like playing Bregman 154 games while "resting" much better performers, too often. Misuse of the pen, as in pitching pressly more than Abreu, when it counts. Sound familiar? When the team wins the same manager doing the same things is a genius.
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Huh? Are you projecting, again? Mocking?
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Apparently, we were supposed to expect that and sign 2 more allstar closers, just in case....
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I thought we had decent SP'er depth, last March. Mediocre but okay on quantity. It turned out Wink was never used in the rotation (thankfully,) and Mata got hurt again (surprise, surprise.) Sale Paxton Kluber Bello Whitlock Houck Pivetta Winckowski Crawford That was 9 with ML experience, then we had... Walter (9th ranked on SPs) Mata (5th ranked on SPs) Murphy (17th ranked in March) (Drohan 13th and Wikelman 14th were viewed as too far away for 2023.) It's not the greatest 11-12, but it was not all that horrible looking on opening day. To me, it looked better than the 2022 rotation on opening day- before we knew Wacha and Hill would do pretty well.
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I know it's unlikely. Hell, I think it's unlikely we add two solid SP'ers. Crawford has a 4.78 ERA as a SP'er, thisa year. It's at 5.44 his last 9 starts. Throw out his first 2 starts and it's at 4.47 in his 20 starts since being added to the rotation for good, back in early June. That's not bad, especially for a first long stretch of starting, but it's no ringing endorsement. I'd prefer he stay in the pen. If we end up with Bello, Houck and Pivetta as our 3-5 SP'ers, we may need several good long relievers in the pen.
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More common sense.
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Like you said, two years ago...
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I think the second reason was to hedge against the pending Bogey bolt.
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All "common sense."
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The poll taken before the 2021 season showed most posters felt we'd win.... 80-83 (4) 75-79 (3) 84-86 (2) 87-89 (1) 90-94 (2) Red must have been one of the 90-94 guys. It's common sense.
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The Rays were the O's many years ago. They tanked to get several top picks, but yes, they have figured out a way to maintain a strong farm and big club long after the tanking effect. The O's have yet to prove they can do that. Some teams, like the Braves look awesome, now, but their farm has tumbled in the rankings, so it will be interesting to see what they look like when all these studs reach free agency and some become the next departing Freddie Freeman. How long can they keep it up? The Astros have been losing some big stars for years and no longer have a stud farm. Is this season's swoon a sign that it is catching up with them, or was it just all the rotation injuries? We'll see.
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Yes, that is one reason they chose those paths. I'm thinking about going forward. I would try like hell to make sure Whitlock never starts another game for us. I try to make sure Houck and Crawford don't, either, but using one as an emergency starter seems logical (not both.)
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Yes, I was confusing this with comp pick drops. My bad.
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That's your view of life. I don't need fall guys every time things go wrong. There are many teams trying to win. Not all can do it. It doesn't mean the ones who miss were mismanaged or coached. It might, but it's not a given, IMO. Cora may be fired, but maybe only to be promoted.
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The fact is, we didn't have these guys, before 2023 in the pen. Ripping them away from the pen, so they can fail as SP'ers was not the right idea. I admit, I thought Whitlock had the make-up to be a SP'er, but once he had hip surgery, he should not have been pushed to start. (I do not think making him a SP'er in 2022 caused the injury, like some seem to think.) Houck was a decent SP'er to start his career. I can see why he was given another chance. My point is, we know, now, but still continue the practice.
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Common sense said we would suck in 2021.
