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Correct, those of us that see a team with no elite hitters, and one sitting there in free agency (Schwarber) are likely going to be more disappointed than someone fine with a team that has 0 top 50 hitters from last year. Schwarber or we riot.

Devers was 27. Bichetee is 33, Bellinger is 40 Polanco is 41. Finally found the first red sox! Its Duran at 57. There are like 6 yankees higher beffore you get to him. But we're trading him for ALec Bohm or prospects, right? SO we gotta keep looking.... Roman comes up at 60.

1. Judge, 2. Ohtani, 3. Soto, 4 Springer, 5. Cal R., 6. Schwarber But we're not interested becasue for a 2 month span 3 years ago Yoshida had an OPS of .825 and whats teh difference between that and the sixth best hitter in baseball?

It was supposed to be Bregman. But Im fine with having holes. And leaving some internal guys to fight it out. But thats for the bottom half of your hitting lineup, and its prob fine as long as you are solid 1-5.

3rd place liklely gets into playoffs as wild card. Not a serious contender. (Im not disagreeing with you that this is one of the most likely scenarios, and Im not even suggesting that this would be a terrible season) But when do we get to say, you guys have been avoiding top hitters for the last 6 years, we want one. Ever? Do we ever get to say: I want a top 10 hitter in baseball? Or is it just about getting solid-average players at every positions? Moon isnt letting them off the hook and neither am I. Give me elite players.

If they add 2 hitters, with OPS who were higher than .850 LAST YEAR. Not 3 years ago, for 2 monhths , he had an OPS of .850 and thats who he may be......Because thats just more of the same. Not going after good hitters, going after if maybe potentially could be , if you squint really hard and use reach logic hes a good hitter WE need good hitters, and your bar for what counts as good is too low. What are we even trying to do here? Now I understand you are trying to be reasonable, and assume tight budget and gotta use what we have who can contribute anything - and you are just in my opinion letting them off the hook too easy. A team that let themselves get outbid for the top hitters is exactly what youve seen teh last 6 years. Are you wanting more of the same? Yoshida, when healthy, is an above average hitter. But you appear to me to be more interested in not letting the 36m committed to him go to waste, than you are in building a team that can beat the yankees and dodgers. If your lineup goes Roman Anthony, Bregman, Yoshida, Hoskins, then we might as well jsut punt.

When you start talking about limiting Ks and control of the strike zone, you are talking about a passive hitter. Meet pitches out in front. Comit to what you see, drive the ball. I dont want to see us revolve our batting order around limiting strikeouts. IF hes staying back and slapping singles, then he cant hit between 2 and 5. Im fine with him leading off and fine with him hitting 6,7,8,9 But are we just gonna put out a team of slap hitters? Are we this comfortable with mediocrity. More than anything, I think the bar is too low. I want aggressive hitters. Who hunt. And are confident in their pitch recognition. Guys who try to punish mistakes and hit the ball out in front. None of this , wait and sit back and slap it through the infield. WE have more of that than we need in Roman alone. I think Masa is redundant with Roman.

Yes (that production as our top masher, not him giving that to us)

And they were 10% short on AAV for Naylor , but correct on yrs. If we assume same for Petey - 4 @ 30m per for ALonso.

I have a hard time believing that if you ahve Moreno, Carroll and Marte, you can get away with some holes. But, they didnt last year. Can we get all 3, cuz that would be amazing.

From my standpoint , when you initially said rushed, I was ready to disagree because Im a water seeks its own level believer, and I think a lot of time - people tend to not want to blame prospects who they like so they blame organizational decisions - and let the prospect themself off the hook But then when you elaborated, and clarified that you werent necessarily saying that KC would have all these built in excuses going forward and you merely meant that he wasnt ready (as opposed to pointing to long term damage), I had no problem with you saying rushed. He may have stunk because he was rushed last year, but if he still stinks 3 years from now, it wont be becasue he was rushed at one point in his career. And if calling him up and giving him a chance a bit too early haunts him going forward because of like long term confidence issues, then the dude was too mentally soft to begin with (but I dont think thats going to be the case)

Hopefully not pointy numbers!

Is it because of his name? Blood and "Gore"

No, but dont blow the budget on bp arms and wind up with yoshida hitting third.

Trading someone named Arias to the Twins feels weird. Wonder if he'd change his name like when we picked up a former Twin named David Arias.

“He needs to get bigger and stronger and be able to shoulder the workload of a full season,” Breslow said about Mayer, whose rookie season ended July 23 when he suffered a wrist sprain that led to surgery. “That’s what the conversations have centered around. To his credit, he’s committed to it. ... ”

wow, thats pretty extreme, haha. Good!

Mayer says hes buying in , and hes gonna start lifting for the first time. We'll see.

Both the injuries and the lack of arm (from a 6'3 dude) have the same thing in common. Bro is allergic to lifting weights. And Breslow called him out recently for it.

Both years wasnt available when team needed him most. And he makes 18m. How much excess value can one really have over 18m when hes finished every single one of the last 6 years hurt.

In the year 2031, Elly had a 46 HR, 154 SB season

I wanted him so bad when he was a free agent. But the character concerns are real. I care more about choking women than the DUI.

Okay, but with this noodlebat centric team, Im more worried about making all nine innings short for opposing pitchers. Fix that first.

I was thinking this too.

Mullins , sandlin, rogers for sale + 9m eaten, im interested. Im not interested in paying sale 18m sorry. And Im putting him in the pen.