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Devers was moved from 3b to dh 100% because of his shoulder, 0% because the team thought it was the better defensive alignment. So when they asked him to play 1b, when they had just told him hes a 3b who needs to dh while his shoulder heals.... But a lot of people here were convinced that they were going to move him to 1b because those same posters had been screaming for it for 3 years, so when the rs do it, of course, those posters are going to perceive it as validation, but it really was never the plan here for devers to be moved to 1b to better align the defense. Even if someone pulls up an article saying they saw him as an eventual DH/1b and maybe they considered that. But thats just every contract for a position player that takes them past age 32.

The original plan was Devers-3b, Breggie-2b, Casas-1b Devers had hurt his shoulder year prior, and they were already a little concerned about its healing, and they liked that Breggie could also play 3b and even 1b and even of, but the plan was to keep him at 2b. Devers shoulder continued to heal alarmingly slow, and so the plan was to start the season with Devers at DH while he recovered. Breggie slid over to 3b. Eventually, for no reason, things got escalated and wires got crossed and mountains were made about molehills, that all happened prior to Casas injury, so 1b wasnt considered. That was jsut people here oft repeating their preferred defensive alignments. But as soon as it kind of settled down and Devers accepted that his shoulder looked scary and its a when not an if he gets severely hurt 3b playing defense before the next offseason, and because breggie, it would make sense for devers to dh rest of season. This is when Casas got hurt Then they asked him to play 1b as if it would be the magical solution, but he saw himself as a 3b playing dh until his shoulder got ready. He never lost the job because of performance. That was never communicated to him. That was just assumptions from people here who thought it made too much sense to not do.

Jeremy Pena grew up in Providence, RI like me.

Casas.

The plan was for Bregman to play second, and Raffy to play 3b. But Raffy's shoulder was already showing issues in spring training, and it hadnt healed enough over the offseason, so Raffy was temporarily moved to DH and Bregman to 3b, and KC to 2b - but it was originally intended to be temporary. Then with Bregman playing well, it started to feel permanent.

feels too good to be true reece witherspoon and mayer for shea dange-ears

Exactamundo. Especially if he swings a biiiiig thumping bat. Its impossible to overpay for Jordan Walker.

I say go big, but target a guy who will be here beyond this year. A superstar and overpay if you have to.

i thought you had a brooks bannon poster?

This has gone from a conversation about selling to a conversation about buying

Maybe we can bait and switch Spencer Steer out for Elly De La Cruz

I have power requirements?

What about Luis Arraez

everyone is a realist in their own eyes.

"Tom cruise isnt but I hear his agent is"

even with the graduates, I dont know how they get to 14. Bennet and Arias are blue-chip for sure (unless Bennet just graduated, then I can see the drop) plus there are other intriguing guys in there like Gonzales and a couple of resurgers like Cespedes and username. Plus more live arms like Witherspoon (not reece) and that other guy you guys are always talking about (valera?) And then Eyanson

Okay but dont be the last hater in the room alone with fred. Im eyeing my exit from the haterade ball myself and wondering if the optimists bandwagon saved me a seat when Ive been mostly a hater in 2026 (which is against my default, im usually quite optimistic with my teams).

Owen is 6'4, 22 yrs old, 99th percentile in OBP, and has speed? Getting his best friend in rd 1 to an underslot deal may have been a table set. Owen looks like a prize. Sign him up.

I like the size of these dudes. Especially the OF'er another chance to hit a Judge/Wood/Walker along with Justin Fernandes. You hit on a big boy who has other tools to go along with a big frame, and add a little durability to the mix, and you got urself a real stud. Just pretend the OF'er was drafted first. In baseball draft, its not like basketball and football where the real draft is the first round and maybe second. Sometimes in round 1 you are holding chips back. Now we can pay Owen and we can tell him we drafted his bestie.

Pena?

We're now up to 31.25% likely to make playoffs per fangraphs. Falling out of out of it.

I like Trevor Story. My point is that in year 3, this is breslows team - and theres an argument being used in defense of breslow that he had no opportunities to do better because all the incumbents were locked in and he had no reason to think that the offense as built wasnt going to be good enough. But plenty of respected MLB analysts saw giant red flags with our offense, so that argument doesnt satisfy me. I think Breslow should be accountable for this team.

Well, I had nothing against any of them...but I did only intend to pick my 3 favorite right fielders....the rest is just coincidence. Personally, Im not in a hurry to upgrade from Abreu.

it was like steve carrell level awkard.

I am positive its GA Tech in KC's case. Cora even said that! You ever see that video , its so painful, of Cora trying to tell KC he made the team out of camp? Hes like and you know.....theres a lot of GA tech guys that have made the show! Can you name any? ANd KC is like "nope" and Cora is like hint there is one in the room with us right now! Did you know that ? And KC is like "nope" and then cora is like its varitekkkkk....OMG you guys are both GA TECH GUYS OMGGGGG. And KC is like cool, why am i here? And cora continues....hes like and and tek isnt even the only red sox great from GA tech, ever hear of Nomar! KC is like "think so, not sure"....and cora is like well, these arent even the extent of the GA guys in the pros....theres so many....theres a long line of GA tech guys and he starts naming more....and KC is clearly losing interest and you can tell by his face he's getting bored..... And Cora is like....okay, okay, all these great players from GA Tech , do you know who the next one is.....Its going to be YOU!!!!! And cora thought he was going to get like this giant reaction, like a tear filled hug.....like an all my dreams came true.....but instead KC just looks at him confused and goes "huh" And cora is like oh for goodness sake, im trying to tell you that you made the team and KC is like "oh, cool. can i go now?"