drewski6

guardians as sellers dont desrve anything. None of these teams do. KC passed us last year, they didnt deserve it. Neither did the twins. The mariners dont. These teams are just not aggressive enough about building their roster. They look at their team and settle. We did too. Too much offseason hopium, especially on the lineup side. Thats where we are. I agree that our injuries are providing too much cover. Not counting the guys who we knew were going to have issues this year (Houck, Sandoval, Craw)...How many all-stars do we have on the shelf? You should have never been in a position to bat rookies in the top 5 of your lineup. You shouldnt be one bat injury away from batting Masa clean up and seeing a big drop off after him. If Mayer never got hurt, he should be in AAA. We shouldnt be using RA injury as some excuse either because its not like we entered the season counting on him. Like Ive said before, you have to prepare for attrition on BOTH sides of the ball. SO you need like 7-10 proven solid hitters so when the playoffs come you have 4-5 still standing. ANd you need to add throughout the year. We didnt.

Ive told him before that he oft overlooks how badly other teams are run. The dodgers, phils and yankees got to where they are because the rest of the league let them.

What if you are none of those things but you have bright orange hair that sticks straight up and a gem in your belly.

Its because it was to Oak. Each game has an assigned chance of win %, so if you lose one the predictive algo penciled you to win, its gonna hurt more than if you lost to LAD in LA

Theres logic in this for sure.

I mean - we just saw this last year. Bregman turned down a very fair offer from his Astros the team he has been with through all those memories to chase max dollars. Now, I dont think its fair to suggest that this makes him not a team guy. Team guy has to do with helping teammates and being positive influence on the team, which he will, even if he is unwilling to take a discount. But if Bregman was willing to turn down a fair contract from the stros because he thought he could get more, hed do it to us too. If he does opt out, and lean towards he will....Then we may have to let him play the market. Either he gets something that we were unwilling to give him from like the Tigers or maybe back to the Stros or one of the teams that love to splash money around, we cant be mad. But theres also a chance he comes back looking to negotiate with us.

Assuming Breg doesn opt out, I see it , you have 3 spots up for grabs. Mayer does not get 2b gift-wrapped. You need to get a legit , middle of the order bat for one of those positions. There arent many MI who fit that bill, but Marte is one. So if you get him, Mayer goes to minors (or more likely is sent in the trade), and it takes the stress off needing to find a masher who can play 1b or dh. You cant roll with questionable in-house candidates at 3 positions if we want to keep improving.

And I think if one things so, they are underrating Gio. We see Gio when he slumps, when Ryan slumps - we notice it less because we arent watching those games as closely.

I dont think so.

Too much optimism counting on both Lowe/Casas to be healthy / productive. I guess 2 out of 3 if you include Yoshida. I think they gotta go fetch a more established power bat. Casas is a walking injury waiting to happen. Dude doesnt even know how to run.

When my mothers now deceased dog would stay with us, I would walk the dog and let the cat out while I did so and kitty would stick with us the whole way. She loved going on a family walk. When Sophie (the dog) and I would turn around, the cat would turn around. Shed never be more than a few steps away.

I assure you Boras didnt get to where he got by not listening to his clients. More likely Boras is willing to be seen as the bad guy and shielding his clients from fan-frustration from clients demanding more money, but its the client driving. There have been a few exceptions Im sure. I think I remember Dice-k telling Boras to chill.

Are there clicks? Is there like a click of 2 dogs and 1 cat and they are like the popular ones. We want a breakdown of the social dynamics!

I just think that baseball has gone too far in the direction of nerds/analytics, and Im not against that kind of stuff. Im a nerdy analyst myself. But I miss when baseball was more human. We swap names as if they arent all individuals. Everyone is an individual. Everyone is a human. Cora sees the human in a human, Brez sees the stat line. In my experience, the best leaders are the Cora types. They get people to buy in. They get the most out of their human resoursces. Someone like Brez , who is gifted at the number-crunching/analytics - these type of people are great assets to any org as well, but they usually arent chief executive types. The best coder on the IT staff may not be the best Chief Technology Officer. As the latter is more about higher level vision, working with other departments. The best analyst may not be the best CEO. Cora understands humans, people like that generally should go to the tippy top. ANd it causes friction. IVe been in corp america. Ive had to sit down with rockstar coders and try to get them to realize that they really dont want the director job. Thats why you hvae like Coder IV, coder III, coder II, sr coder, jr coder....You have all these levels so you can promote your rockstar coders and keep giving them raises but you are also keeping them coding and not leading/managing.

I still want Gio

Thats not how it works. As an agent you dont drive like this. Bregman might want stability over max dollars. You listen first, as an agent. They tell you what they want, you help them get it or as close as possible.

At this point, Im more concerned about Story opting out.

Right, thats why I said not bad in lieu of better like great or good. LOL

Gio for open slot #2. Hes pitched well, and hes pitched well here. He has a 3.5 ERA on the season, and looks to be maintaining and holding up deep. This is also not the first time , he's had an ERA short of 4. Because hes done it here, I think I make him a priority. Hes going to be 32 though. Do you think 4 yrs/ 100 gets it done?

Thats not bad defensively.

also - great win

Ive got just one cat, but I grew up with basset hounds and will always love them. Im uncle to many dogs. Cant have him at my place tho.

I dont think thats how its going to go down, Im just saying in my ideal world , Cora is CBO and Brez is GM. But if Cora gets move to GM, than that shows that they are working together effectively and Brez has sold Cora, and that would make me embrace Brez. When you come in above someone in an organization above them, but they have been there longer, and you can get them to buy into your vision/leadership - thats evidence of a good boss/leadership

the problem is breslow is not a cbo. hes a gm with an inflated title

1. Fire Breslow 2. Hire Cora to CBO 3. Have Cora interview Breslow for GM, and if they truly are getting along - and Cora wants Breslow - fine Or make up a role above CBO and put Cora in there No way should Coras job be in Breslows hands.