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  1. JoeBrady
    Very self-destructive. It's like that with some people. Without mentioning names, there are certain people where I cringe when I see their latest pronouncement.
  2. JoeBrady
    You're not wrong, but it feels like posting 'virtually 100% true' is too much work.
  3. JoeBrady
    Strangely enough, I really wanted to call him a blooming onion.
  4. JoeBrady
    We were too good to tank, but not good enough to win. The thing that annoyed me the most was that, even if we got lucky enough for a playoff slot, we didn't have the rotation to support any success. We'd have been a material underdog in every playoff series.
  5. JoeBrady
    I would do it too, but see no motivation for Houston.
  6. JoeBrady
    It doesn't really matter if he is a blooming idiot. What he said at the time was perfectly logical and 100% right. We got 140 GS from our rotation and 11-1 from Lester, Buchholz and Gabbard.
  7. JoeBrady
    It is to distinguish between two relatively even teams. Not meant to compare my softball team with the NYY. And, specifically, in this case, to the RS and NYY in 2007.
  8. JoeBrady
    Pure speculation, but if the voting was held today, who would win the GM of the year award?
  9. JoeBrady
    Not necessarily. Part of making predictions is to factor in injuries, as well as to factor in depth.
  10. JoeBrady
    Schilling was 100% correct when he said it. And it intuitively makes sense. If the Toronto misses 40 GS from their rotation, and we miss 10, I'd make a significant wager we finish ahead of them.
  11. JoeBrady
    There are always guys down the line to sell. Our position squad has players locked in l/t (3+ years) at 7 spots, with Story and Contreras locked in for 2+ years. Our rotation has 3 l/t contracts, plus Early, Tolle, maybe Witherspoon & Crawford. We can't get reckless, but we shouldn't be in dire need of more prospects for a while.
  12. JoeBrady
    Part of that defaulted in from our farm being ranked #30. It wasn't all DD's fault, but from 2012-2021, we drafted Benni, Duran, and a total bWAR of 27.8 from everyone else.
  13. JoeBrady
    IMO, the future is now. And maybe it was in 2025. But it wasn't in 2022, 2023, and 2024. We should've been selling more than buying.
  14. JoeBrady
    I think we are #2 in BB. The biggest problem I see is that I rate TO, NYY, and Seattle as about a half-game worse than us. As the great philosopher Curt Schilling once said 'the team that gets the most starts from their regular rotation will be the team with the best record.
  15. JoeBrady
    That makes sense. I liken it to fantasy BB. I have a list of guys I want, at various values. I like Crochet, but not as a top-8 pick. But I will grab him at maybe #12. I don't like Tucker, but if he falls to #20, I might have to pick him. My guess is that Bres liked Bergman at a cost, but had 6-7 names right underneath him. In fact, I'd go so far as to say Bres had already talked to the Cards about Contreras and factored in Contreras' cost in his Alonso bid.
  16. JoeBrady
    We don't know for sure, but I doubt there were any serious talks. My guess is that Breslow called, and LAA said 'Sure he's available. Arias, Witherspoon, Tolle, Early and some scraps'. The Breslow counters and LAA says' okay, keep the scraps, but we want your four best prospects'. Seeing how LAA operates, I see no way they trade their best and most popular player for anything other than highway robbery.
  17. JoeBrady
    I realized the sarcasm right away. The problem is that we have fans that think exactly like that. We still have a fan that hates it because they think it was a salary dump by a cheapskate owner.
  18. JoeBrady
    I'd suggest it is more like someone paying $90 for my $100 card + throwing in a card that I believe should be worth $50. Or, following Moon's (?) lead, it is most closely like asking 'would you prefer Devers, or Suarez + IKF + Durbin? FFTD.
  19. JoeBrady
    I doubt it works like that. Maybe for the LAD, who are simply going to outbid everyone. But even teams like the Mets target a guy, but will let him go. You have to think in terms of the positions they are targeting, and the value of the targets. Alonso cost $31M. Contreras, Suarez and Durbin cost us $44M and some minor pieces. I'd rather have our side.
  20. JoeBrady
    Durbin, imo, is a very good 'settle'. And I wouldn't put much thought into the Neto part. He is a top-tier young player. A team like the LAA weren't going to trade their only good player unless we absolutely overwhelmed them.
  21. JoeBrady
    They also have Rodgers and Bradish for the entire season instead of 24 GS in total. Both are questionable, but pretty talented.
  22. JoeBrady
    You could see that coming when he accepted the player option for a net $12M. A healthy Bieber would've commanded a heck of a lot more.
  23. JoeBrady
    I haven't checked yet, but has anyone added as much as we have? And is it even close?
  24. JoeBrady
    Probably. But he was also the overall #1/3, and consistently ranked in he top-20. Feels like a decent minor league gamble to me.
  25. JoeBrady
    People pay far too much attention to what GMs say.
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