moonslav59

Get off the first base bus, yah must. No need to discuss much, Just drop off your keys and leave Set your fat butt free....

We are making too many errors, some easy ones, some borderline hits called erros, and then the ones that are bonehead plays. There are also many no errors that are scored as hits or fielder's choice that could have been outs or DPs. I do think our defense is better than 2024, but that was such a low bar set, it should not have taken much to improve upon. Narvaez and Bregman were very nice additions for the O and D. Stories return and Rafaela FT in CF should have led to much better numbers- traditional and otherwise, than we've seen, It's not like RF defense got any worse. 2B and 1B sucked to begin with, but I'm not thinking it got worse in 2025. Our pitchers have sucked on D, but this whole thing doesn't make sense, to me. I'm hopeful we can improve our fldg% and metrics, going forward. We'll need improvements in several aeras to make up for the loss of Devers. Mayer looks like a plus and Anthony is no slouch on D. Campbell is question mark, but there has been a low bar set at 2B for over 7 years.

At what cost? Even 2-3 month rentals are overpays. Do you give Arias & Valera for a top rental? What can we get for Romero, Bleis & Mullins?

"The problem is all inside your head," Brez said to me "The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle from this team There must be fifty ways to leave beloved" Cora said, "It's really not my habit to intrude Furthermore, I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued But I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude There must be a way for you to change positions" Fifty ways to change positions You just slip out the back, Chap Make a new plan, Jarren You don't need to be coy, boy Just get yourself free Hop on the bus, Dev You don't need to discuss much It's off to San Fran, man You got yourself free...,

Brez also traded for Fitts, Weissert & Judice. He traded for Harrison & J Bello. He traded for Fajardo. He traded for Priester, then flipped him for the guy you mentioned, Holobetz. Eduardo Rivera was added as a MiFA Others Brez added via draft or IFA: Valera, Wehunt, Delzine, D Reyes & others.

I don't really disagree with anything, here, either. Ideally, we should try to avoid maga deals, especially long term ones, and even the one for Bregman might have been avoidable, had we put our faith in Meidroth and found another prospect to include in the Crochet deal. I'm not for trading higher prospects for short term gains. The Aldo Ramirez for Schwarber deal is about the highest we've gone since Beeks for Nate in 2018- both seemed to work well. IMO, we need a solid #2 SP'er. I doubt Dobbins, Houck, Crawford or anyone else in the system can step into that roile, shortly or even in a year or two. Houck and Sandoval probably have the best chance, unless Buehler comes around. I do not want us trading a top 8 or so prospect for a rental, but I would like to see a longer term addition that fills that role, and would be willing to pay for it in money and or higher level prospects.

Again, I'm not for Yoshida at DH. If he earns it, fine. but I'd rather see Duran/Anthony at DH v R and Ref/Romy at DH v L. I see our fully line-up and Bregman + almost all slightly plus players. Maybe Abreu/Ref equal a significant plus as a platoon, and maybe Narvaez continues at .800+, thus being better than "slightly plus." The rest are borderline slight plus. Some have potential to be more (Duran, Rafaela, Story, Toro/Romy and Mayer + Anthony) but some have the potential to be near or slightly below average (.714 in MLB avg OPS) and that list includes everyone I just names in the previous sentence. Yes, our pitching needs help, and that further stresses the need to have a better offense to help compensate for expected issues with our staff. I keep waiting for our defense to have a long stretch of looking near or in the top 10-12 teams, but then we have a game like yesterday. We are not going anywhere with Avg-Avg-Avg, across the board. Losing Devers made us near Avg on O. Losing a ton of our rotation and having an overworked pen looks Avg, to me. The D has looked near Avg, so far. We need to make an area or two a clear plus, and losing Devers makes having a plus O very difficult and too heavy on hopes and prayers on many players with potential for higher ceilings than we've seen, so far. I think I am justified in worrying about all areas and topics.

I see your point. I was thinking about what the worst Story could do to still be an overall plus. We need more than 8 slightly plus players and Bregman.

Talk about cherry picking and then you add the what ifs on top of the cherry. You chose Fldg % as the be all end all, and DHam is better than KC at 2B. Period. That has ended past discussions with you, as you claim it is all that matters. Now, it doesn't, because it suits your position. Nobody liked DHam as our 2Bman. Nobody. Nobody says he is a good hitter. Nobody. Nobody says KC is a bad player, only that he was playing badly for about 6-8 weeks, You are the only one denying DHam is a better defensive 2Bman, You are the only one ignoring the baserunning plus DHam has. You are the one ignoring that KC was not going to play even half the games, so it made sense to send him to a place where he will play everyday and hopefully get out of his funk without hurting the big club in the process. What a bunch of mental gymnastics. It's comical, but in a tragic way,,, not ha-ha way.

I don't sign up for this kind of thing, sorry.

Nice! Brannon has been turning it up

You know these guys better than I do.

Maybe Romero or Ronald Rosario to AAA. I'm not sure they want to move Arias to AA, so soon & same with Bleis. Jo Garcia taking Rosario's catcher slot at AA might happen, later this year, but not soon. Gonzales, Cespedes and Mussett may go to GRE, at some point. I agree that more moves are likely with pitchers: To AAA? Early, Sandlin or Mullins To AA? Tolle, Rivera and maybe Holobetz To GRE? Fajardo or Brooks? D Reyes to SAL?

We are now a half game behind SEA and CLE for the last WC slot. The Jays and Rays are still in reach.

It comes down to MIL being sellers, or not. Hoskins is making $18M, this year.

I'm fine with riding it out a bit longer with Toro & Romy at 1B, and until Bregman comes back, Toro can and has played some 3B, too. I think we are actively looking at a trading for a rental 1Bman.

I think we see a bunch of promotions, soon.

I said, they looked like the had a good shot at winning, a few times. They had more hits than SF and the same amount of homers and errors. No, they did not look good, very often, except for the dingers.

Garcia his his 8th later in the game! He's up to .992! Rosier is on fire, too (.858 w a tater.) Hickey homered and KC went 2-4 w a 2B and BB. POR pitched a no hitter, as sandlin went 6 and Troye and Brand went the other 3. They won 10-0! They had 12 hits and 7 BBs. Ravelo went 2-3 w HR. Ferguson 3-3 w 2BB. Ehrhard 2-3 w 2B and 2BB. GRE lost in 10, but Tolle pitched a gem: 6IP 5H, 1ER, 1BB & 9K. Sanasone went 3 I allowing 3 hits, 0 BBs and had 4 Ks- 1 ER. Arias and Brannon each had 2 hits- Bleis had 1 hit & 2BB and is now at .782. SAL lost 6-4, but Azocar homered and Gonzalez had a 2B and 3B.

That might be more on Bailey. I see a major uptick in pitching being a high priority on the farm. I'm talking drafting them higher, drafting more of them, and paying them higher bonuses than we've seen our last few GMs do. Brez has given IFA pitchers more bonus money than we've seen in recent years. He's traded for pitching prospects and young pitchers, including older pitchers for younger ones, like Schreiber for Sandlin, Priester for Holebetz and Booser for Fajardo. He's trade a big package for Crochet, then extended him. He traded Verdugo for Fitts, Weissert and Judice. He traded Devers for 3 pitchers- 2 of then young. Back to the draft: he drafted 12 pitchers in our first 16 picks in 2024, but almost more importantly, he gave a large percent of the bonus pool money to pitchers, including a few much higher slot money. Take a look at IFA bonus money. Our top pitcher bonuses were like $125M, and every now and then $200K or $300K. This year, we gave $500K to Delzine and $350K to Cordero, plus $100K to Montero. We don't know, if all these kids will produce, but Brez has made a clear effort to effect a change for the good.

They never even made an attempt to spend the $300M on Betts, not the contracts let go, like Porcello, Kimbrel, JD, Nate and others. I suppose Story and Yoshia were half-hearted attempts at throwing a bone to rabid fans, but it did look like a legit change, when we extended Devers and then saw the jump in spending, this last winter. Now, the Devers dump opens the whole can or worms, again, and the unsettled feelings return, front and center. It's like we can't even enjoy one second of feeling good about anything. They make a great move or two, and we end up expecting another shoe to drop. At least this time it was two steps up (Breg & Crochet) and one step back (Devers.)

At so many pints in this game, I felt we had a good shot at pulling it out. The D let us down, and the pen just couldn't get that extra out the defense forced on them. I think we gave our all, this series, and it's the first one we've lost in a while. I'm hopeful we get back on track but this growing IL list is getting absurd.

Well said. I like the way you broke it down.

Mayer or Story may end up solving the long-standing 2B issue.

Nobody is bragging about DHam's O.