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Disagree with the bold, agree with the rest. Why do people want Devers to play 1B? Because its an easy position to play, and Devers is not a D-first player. But it doesnt have to be him. It can be literally anybody except the guys who are out there because of their D (Cedanne, Narvaez). It doesnt need to be Raffy and if Raffy is slugging , I agree leave him be. Put anyone there. Roman? Fine. Campbell? Fine. Story? Fine. Mayer? Fine. Bregman? Fine. Trottsynixon Garcia? Fine. People want Devers because everyone else is too good defensively to waste at 1b and I think thats a mistake. We arent trying to have the most ideal defensive alignment possible.

Play any of em at 1b. I care not who.

No offense intended, but some of you are trying to present yourselves as new school, while simultaneously being a trend or two behind. Whatever is current/hot/trending changes rapidly. Bill James threw "moneyball" out the window 1.5 years after committing to it. Now you old school types might think that this shows that you shouldnt chase the trends because they are just going to change - so keep it old school - and you would be wrong too. You gotta change, and you gotta change fast. Or you'll get exploited. For example: People threw high fastball with success, people stopped throwing it, people started throwing it again. Had you threw the high heat all along, you would have gotten wrecked. There was a reason why it went out of style and there was a reason it came back in. Right now - its sell out literally everything for power. Your nine best sluggers are your team and defense is considered, but thats why you want versatility and redundancy on defense. So if someone goes down (Casas) you can replace him with your new ninth best slugger (whatever position that may be) and because you have so much versatility on D, you can figure it out. Ideal defensive alignment, OBP chasing, lineup scrutiny. All deemphasized right now. Have your nine best sluggers in, and defense matters to an extent - but be willing to move guys around so you always have your nine best sluggers in. Been this way for 2 years now.

OBP is very much out of style

We have too much talent to go shopping, my opinon.

And you think this is better than having any of RA, MM, Garcia brother in MLB? Or do you mean stop gap until Campbell or somebody else internally can get some reps?

What about Trottsy Nixon?

Me too :/

Fat Joe and Big Pun are different people but if you go to a Fat Joe concert you are going to hear him cover "its so hard"

I mean on one hand he was very much team Jonafran for a while and I do believe that he would have been at least very intrigued if someone 4-5 years ago was like you know he has a brother too who is also a sexy prospect On the other hand, they are actually 2 different people

I think Moon is implying that hes been a fan of either Garcia brother for 5 years - because he was president of team jonafran, he of course would have been high on PW had he known about his existence, so hes giving himself credit for being 5 years ahead on PW. And I havent decided yet if thats fair or not.

At this point, Im willing to try anyone at 1b except for "actual first baseman" because I dont think it really matters much at all if a dude has played first base before. It would be like an elite manager being nervous about being a third base coach because never done it before. My gut tells me you got this. Actual first baseman just remind me of Kasey Kotchman and who wants that?

arent you that guy from that cereal commercial, NutN'Honey or something from like the early nineties when some dude would mutter something under his breath at the bfast table and his wife was like "EXCUSE ME!?!?!?" And you went "nuttin honey" which was the name of the cereal you were eating, it became your moniker but was eventually shortened to notin

I like the brothers a lot, and I know Moon does too. But they are, in actuality, different people

Wait, we're talking about password at 1B because "why not?", right. I think Moon is pretending that hes been an advocate for PW for 5 years, which isnt fair. He was advocating for Jonafran for 5 years but PW only last 2.

My name is actually Andrew

Even if you put Fitts over Kutter Crochet Buehler Fitts Dobbins Bello (weird spacing unintended) But I dont think thats a lock it up 5, we got our 5. Even if you get Houck back. Its hard for me to not seeing the need for Kutter to start at least a few times once healthy.

Not against it

Hurry back Kutter Crawford* *2023 Crawford much preferred, but even 2024 Crawford would probably be an upgrade over whoever is the current # 5 starter.

Ill try anything twice

At the guy who has been telling people not to come at you so hot

not against it

not against it

"do you not know what happens when you say someone's name around here?" -Kevin Owens

And miss an opportunity to bear witness to the incredibly shrinking man? Also, I had Andrew Vaughn on my MLB the show 23 franchise and he was a very solid platoon guy