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Well, he grew up in a small town a few hours away. For all I know, he still lives in Georgia.

The name I keep looping back to is Eduardo Rodriguez. Given his age and ability, 5/$70m is really enticing to me.

I think both Posey and Mauer are easy cases to get into the Hall because the Hall (ie. its voters) need to reevaluate what is expected from a "Hall of Fame catcher" because the threshold is too damned high. We commonly use 70 WAR as a HoF baseline and without looking I'm 98% sure no catcher has hit that threshold in the past 25 years. Maybe Gary Carter was the last to do it? He retired 30 years ago while his career started over 45 years ago (not looking at any of the stats, going from memory here).

No arguments here.

While I generally agree with this across the board, I'm hesitant to group Carl in with the rest of his family. While there's more than ample evidence he was a pretty awful guy in a variety of ways, I have yet to see the same from his children, other than the fact that the mere existence of a billionaire class is viewed by many as an ethical problem unto itself.

This is a really good list at very difficult prices. I ended up coming close to just closing my eyes and blindly clicking an option because the dollars all looked competitive and it's hard to decide whether I wanted someone higher end like Stroman or someone without the extreme financial risk, like Gray.

The Padres were ravaged by injury in 2021, I’m willing to just write off the season and move on. Tingler’s firing felt a lot like the higher ups needed a scapegoat and he was the easiest choice. Like all coaching hires, I think their past performance is really hard to gauge but I’m not going to put a lot of stock into his sudden firing, either.

Sure, but he was the manager of MLB players making literally hundreds of millions of dollars. Unlike most jobs where management generally points downward, professional sports puts the money and (most of) the power in the hands of the players, not management. And given how so players seemed to generally react to him taking a shot at his own player, it wasn't a good look and I hope his reversal was based in the fact he knew he was just wrong*. *it should be noted that at the time of the incident, Jayce was a very young MLB manager who hadn't spent much time running a MLB club

I find the original position the biggest problem, as it spoke to being out of touch with the modern game and its players. Backing down from that stance is a good sign, IMO, or at least better than sticking to it to the detriment of his relationship to his own players.

Going from hazy recollection but I believe he later backed down from that (frankly idiotic) position.

I’m not old enough to remember those 60s and 70s teams but this was what kinda spurred a lot of the motivation for me to make this post.

It really depends on how the front office wants to approach the off-season. If they want to dump nearly all their money into pitching, Simmons would be a decent fit, especially if they pursue a groundball guy like Stroman.

Happ was “worth” nearly -2 rWAR with the Twins. I’d say the hate he received was rather spot-on.

Yeah, which is a bit of a bummer because Simmons is actually a really good but-low candidate imo. I also don’t want him within 1.000 feet of the Twins clubhouse for obvious reasons.

This was pretty much a no-brainer in my opinion. While spending $4m on Colome is actually pretty reasonable, there's no reason to aggravate the fan base by keeping him for 2022, as Colome is eminently replaceable at that price.

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Disagreement is fine, rebutting points I’m not making and running the thread in a different direction are not. Not a single person has actually articulated why my definition of mediocrity is wrong or suggested an actual alternative to it.

I think handing the closer job to anyone is kinda dumb given the fact Rogers is left-handed. Go find a good/great right-hander and do a time share based on matchup.

They lost 100 games one year and 90 several more. That’s not mediocre, that’s awful. I also suspect they would have been good (90+ wins) had 2020 been a normal season.

I’m not sure who I’d target but I’d definitely target a good right-handed reliever to close in case Rogers stumbles when he returns from rehabbing the finger.

Dude, it kinda feels like you're trolling me at this point. You keep reframing my statements into something they absolutely are not. I was very clear with. my statements and definitions here.

I’m sorry but your argument is wildly inconsistent. One moment it’s “tell me how selling works” and “should have acquired Story at the deadline”, the next you’re seemingly agreeing that trading Nelson Cruz was a good call.