moonslav59

Could the bad rap we gave Brez on the Gio signing have been unfair? Let's hope the Buehler signing takes a turn for the good, real soon.

It does get me wondering, if maybe we have an ace and just don't know it yet. We never though Houck, Crawford, Bello or Dobbins would amount to all that much. Maybe one of these kids that actually look real good will be the ace we need.

Wow, I'm one of 6, too. (5 sisters!) My eldest sister was the valedictorian and our school and went on to Yale. My next sister went to Yale, too. I had some big heels to follow. My mom was from Germany and dreamed in 3 languages. None of us kids learned a language.

There is scientific reasons why adults have a much harder time than children. Maybe because Devers is a "man-child" it should have been easier. LOL! My sister married a gut from Hong Kong and lived there for 22 years. She learned about 4 words.

Not even Painter does that!

Yup, and the answer to 2+2 = A.

No, you never answered the actual question, and we know the situation presented in this case.

Tolle today: 5 IP 1 Hit 1 ER 2 BB 9 K 1.80 ERA, now. Sandlin comes in the game as a RP: 4 IP 1 Hit 0 ER 2 BB 7 K 3.66 ERA. Wow, 16 Ks in 9 IP. The game is in the 1oth, now.

You may be right, but what will he learn in 10 more weeks?

This has nothing to do with my question, and I actually feel and said the same thing: It's not insubordination, if he was never told to play 1B. We don't know if he was asked/told or not. The point being made on this discussion is that it doesn't matter if Devers, Cora, you and the world think he's better at DH and not 1B. It's about should a player and manager do what their boss tells them to do, if they indeed were told to do whatever it is. Now, if your argument is that it was right for Nazi soldiers not to follow orders and not kill who they were told to kill, that's one thing, but you are not making a case for this being that type of situation that demands insubordination, if indeed either one of them was told to do play 1B or tell another to play 1B. (Again, we don't know.) We know you think Devers at 3B was your position for years, then you flipped to DH only and not 1B. It looks like Cora agreed. Nobody is disputing this or asking you your position on this. It's a different question. I'm not sure I can ever word it in a way you can understand the simple question being asked, so don't bother trying to answer it.

My god! You keep missing the question, despite me telling you over and over. Being a good or bad choice is a fine question, but not the one I asked, like 3 times, now. Take it away from this issue. Is it okay or not for a manager to not do what his boss tells him to do? (Not that Cora did this.) You have not answered this question- only the question I'm not asking you is being answered over and over.

It might take Chapman and Duran for Abel, and I'm not sure how proven he is, either. I'm fine with getting top prospect pitching- really, I am. If we are to be sellers, I'd rather sell for pitching than hitters. I'm just thinking we need another Crochet, and that is a winter type trade, not a deadline one. We could try to do both.

It was great seeing Chris Murphy back on the mound. Better to see him do well.

Feast or famine. 18 hits, 6 BBs, 2 HBP and 2 SF.

Gio's ERA is now under 4.00.

To me, the best general approach is to trade for an established young pitcher with 2+ years of team control, and that almost always happens in the winter. Deadline deals are usually rentals for prospects. Winter deals are prospects for established vets. I'm not saying it has to be this way, but trying to get a stud pitcher, at the deadline will almost always involve a massive overpay- and that's just for a rental. If we trade some rentals and get a top pitching prospects who is MLB ready, I would not be against the idea, but it's a big dice roll. Maybe the safe plan would be to trade all our FAs-to-be for the best prospects available, then wait until winter to combine enough of our prospects to package for a trade like the Crochet one, the Sale and Beckett. I just feel safer going this route. Since we already have some top and mid tier prospects many teams want, adding some more would give us the upper hand on being able to offer the best deal for the best pitchers on the trade market. The next hope is that with the money saved on the Devers trade we can actually sign someone better than Gio or Buehler types.

Many a pitching prospect has had great stuff and not produced at the ML level.

You do realize top pitching prospects often fail, right? Also, that a major overpay, although it does probably get DD's attention.

I will say I am not for putting your 9th best OBP guy up first, all year long, Only Rafaela has more than 150 PAs and a lower OBP, and I don't want him up first, either. I do question the timing of the swap, as I do those who are saying Story should not be in the line-up, right after his best (or second best) stretch of the season,

I don't doubt it. We'd have to make an offer they could not refuse. It might be one I'd refuse, too.

It's something you live with. One time, I was out walking dog in the streets of Mexico City, and a kid came up and asked if my dog bites, as she reached out to pet him. I said, "Si, si," thinking she asked if it was okay to pet him, You should have seen her arm T-Rex in a flash. I wish I learned Spanish better than I did. I know I tried. I know I was motivated. I just couldn't do it, for the life of me. Now, I teach English and see some people have the same issues I had with Spanish.

You still don't get it. I know what side you on. I'm fine with it. My point was about it being okay or not for a manager to refuse to do what his boss asked him to do. Again, we don't know if he was asked or not, so don't go now claiming I'm calling Cora insubordinate, like you said I did with Devers.

You are currently confused, too.

I took beginning French 3 times in my life. I had to drop it in college, after one semester, because I know I was going to fail. I took beginning Latin for the second semester to meet my graduation criteria. You keep brining up examples of people who did it, and maybe it wasn't easy for some of them, but I do know it is extremely difficult for some adults to learn a new language, myself included, and I had incentive to learn it, too.

No, I did not. Please stop this. I said Cora might be viewed that way, if he was told to ask/tell Devers to play 3B, but refused to do what his bass said, but I did not know if he was told to do so, or not. If he was told to and did not, it's text book insubordination. I'm not sure Devers was ever asked or told to play 1B, other than through the media. If he was never told to do it, it's not insubordination. My position is we don't know. I have said that if they told Devers to and he refused, then it would be insubordination, but as always, you hear what you want to hear or twist what I say into something not true. It's what you do, even after being corrected. I do think he should have volunteered to do whatever is best for the team, like he openly did in SF, and maybe he did in private with the Sox. We don't know jack, so I'm not calling him any names, except a "great hitter."