moonslav59

Only 5 pitchers in our whole farm system have pitched more innings with a lower ERA: 2.17 Early 1.84 Rivera 1.97 Mullins 2.27 Criswell (not a prospect) 2.44 Sansone 3.14 Holobetz

Do all our players need to go?

We have more hits and less errors in this game. BB's 0 by Sox batters 4 by Jays batters

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Schreiber, too. Nick Robertson? Chase Shugart? I could go on....

Newcomb's doing better than Priester. What about him, too?

You guys think Cora is dumb. Why bring in a lefty to pitch to Romy?

You forget, we got the great pitching prospect back in that deal, too: John Holobetz.

A little Burdi must be almost ready to be activated. We also have our own 3 H club: Houck, Harrison & Hicks.

or, to insure we sell not buy.

It's time to try anyone else in Kelly's 26 man roster slot.

Your optimism is unending.

How many guys has Narvaez picked off?

I spoke too soon. He ends up walking the next sub .600 batter to load up the bases- then walks the #9 batter. Hey Max, does he have enough BBs, now?

Max, 2 HRs in the first inning sucks. There is no spinning that fact.

Another sub .600 batter burns us. At least we didn't walk him with the bases loaded. Geeesh!

If you were talking 2020 to 2024, I'd agree, but last winter saw a significant uptick in spending. Of course, if you subtract the Devers trade, which makes a sense, it wipes it out, but the fact is, we are still over the tax line. That's not getting cheaper. This winter's spending budget will be telling on our spending trend.

We will not get Peralta without giving back serious quality. Painter will likely cost us 2-3 high level prospects: if not two from Anthony, Mayer, KC and Garcia, at least one plus one or two from Arias, Bleis, Cespedes, Tolle, Clarke or Valera.

KC has been walking a lot at WOO. I doubt he gets walked in MLB, upon his return. He's 5 for 18 at WOO, since his demotion. He has 7 BBs in those 6 games. Is that enough to earn a trip back? I'm not saying no, and the way DHam is hitting, I can see the reasoning, but the L-R thing looms large and Sogard is the comp to look at there. He's at 1.000 in the last week.

You really want to give up multiple top prospects for a rental and unknown?

Buehler needs to work on his pregame prep. His first innings suck! (His next ones have not been great, either, but you get my point.)

We've got squat on our farm, in terms of good, ML ready catching options. Brannon is 21 and unproven. Jo, Garcia looks the most promising, but is just 20 and coming off rehab. Sabol & Zavala are typical AAA catcher depth that offer very little hope of any overall plus value. Rosario at AA needs a lot of improvement on defense. Hudson White & Juan Montero (both at GRE) and Diego Viloria at SAL are hardly worth mentioning. Kleyver Salazar (SAL) is the only other catching prospects listed in the top 60. He's at 57, Jo Garcia at 32 and Brannon at 42. It looks like we need to trade for a decent back-up catcher and give up on Wong.

Thanks for this. It's a good sign that maybe our younger guys, plus Romy, might end up better than they have looked, so far. I'm still very optimistic about our everyday player core of young players. I also am excited about all the years of control we have on them and the depth at just about every position, except corner infield. I'm fairly optimistic about the strides we have made in building up our farm pitching- both in terms of acquiring more and better pitchers and improving our development practices. We may be years away from seeing those results, but Brez has also shown the willingness and ability to recognize and do what it takes to get a guy like Crochet. While his Gio, Buehler and Hendriks deals all look bad to awful, with maybe Gio doing his best at redeeming a portion of is $39M payout, Brez has also acquired a lot of good and promising pitchers in just 2 short years: Crochet Chapman & Wilson Fitts & Weissert Slaten & Criswell Harrison, Hicks, Burdi & Alcala Sandlin, Moran, I Campbell, Fajardo, J Bello, Judice & others (Trades) Tolle, Clarke, Aita, Cason, Tygart, Neeley & others (Draft) Delzine, D Reyes, Cordero, Montero & others (IFA) Sandoval remains a big unknown. That's a formidable and long list for just 1 draft and 2 off seasons.

Maybe Brandon Walter is "the one that got away." By and large, Brez has added way more pitchers than he's traded away. A few have looked bad, many are still on the farm, and a few have looked pretty good to great.

How low is Grissom's stock? He's still on the 40, yet these guys are on the big club, while he's still in AAA: Eaton Sogard DHam Toro My guess is, if we end up needing yet another infielder, KC may get the re-call before Grissom gets one.