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  1. farmerguychris
    I'd love to get Luzardo on our squad, but can't imagine giving up Jenkins, Rodriguez, or Lee because he's only going to be a rental player for us. I simply can't see ownership doing a fast about face and allowing us to spend the kind of money he'd require to be with us for multiple years. Sure we'd get 2.5 years out of him for the moment, but if we traded any of the above 3 names, I'd want him for longer.
  2. farmerguychris
    The F.O. has always had a higher opinion of Kepler than most fans have and for much of the past year, they've been right. However... even with him doing well and possibly earning this amount of money - I would expect the owner's will force him to play elsewhere because of the price tag.
  3. farmerguychris
    You do know that before the NY series, our starters were throwing the 2nd most innings in the league right? The idea that Rocco has a quick hook just isn't based on facts.
  4. farmerguychris
    Would love to see them find the next Jeffers soon to get them in the system and working.
  5. farmerguychris
    The owners have the team they deserve. On the other hand, the fans deserve better - that amazing support at the home playoff games should have been a tide the owners couldn't wait to ride on. Instead they squashed it.
  6. farmerguychris
    Spot on. However, I would expect the comments on this subject are much nicer than they would have been 3 weeks ago.
  7. farmerguychris
    I think Alcala has earned a higher role than the last bullpen spot - but I'd be OK giving any and all of the others mentioned a shot in live MLB action. Won't know how they do till they try. If they fail, demote them again (or dfa), if they succeed, good problem to have.
  8. farmerguychris
    Yes, this move did not go as planned. Poor scouting on our part I would expect where the blame should go. Would anyone give us even an oft injured journeyman AAAA level player for him? I would think not, but maybe someone needs some depth?
  9. farmerguychris
    I'm confused about how the team is managing their money. For years they didn't appear to be spending the traditional 50% of revenue on payroll, but now they claim the want to 'right size' the budget - that indicates they are losing money. Does that mean they are so poorly running finances of the rest of the organization that they can't 'keep their doors open' on the non-payroll revenues? This comes down to Dave St. Peter as he's responsible for the business end of the team - not the on-field product. I understood they took a short term Bally's deal in hopes of getting something better as a larger group of teams whose Bally contract is expiring at the end of this year. BUT - they knew their contract was almost up a year ago. Why wait until it was up to try and find a new solution for the 2024 season? Maybe they didn't, but it appears they had to sign a short term contract as a result of poor advance planning. I'm fortunate that I prefer listening to games on the radio - so this doesn't impact me as much as others, but it does show that while I think the on-field portion of the leadership team is doing their job, the business end has to do better. Example - They appear to be short on money. Then why are they one of the few teams with no ads on their jerseys? I don't care for them, but I'm sure some company would be willing to pay them something for a patch on their sleeve. Perhaps they are overvaluing their brand (same as they overvalued Kepler in the past and were unable to trade him?) and can't find a partner willing to meet their demands for how much a patch should cost? Why not take a short term deal on the income side as well and try again next year if revenues are failing?
  10. farmerguychris
    Come on guys, give Dobnak a shot. I'd love to see us get something out of his salary and he can't really be much worse can he? Would love to see him end up being a long, drawn out success story for us if his finger is healthy!
  11. farmerguychris
    Well - he's paid to be a professional pitcher, so shouldn't the expectation be that he should be good?
  12. farmerguychris
    I really wonder if the ownership/the F.O. would have signed Correa had they known that one player (as good as he is) would be preventing them from being competitive. This is a team game, and with that much of your self imposed salary cap invested in one spot (especially when on the IL) - you're setting yourself us to be 'short staffed' in other areas.
  13. farmerguychris
    I'm not going to agree with you that 20 games into a season that its a lost year - but I agree that we should let these 2 guys be playing as much as possible. They are at least as good as the guys we signed in the offseason this year. Let Martin take the role of Margot, and find a spot for Woods-Richardson someplace either as a starter, or in the pen.
  14. farmerguychris
    Just like in other sports, its not the manager that should be let go, it should be the positional coaches- in this case, the hitting coaches. We've been more than patient. If the F.O. has a certain way they want us to be hitting - the current set of coaches simply don't appear to be adequately communicating that to the hitters themselves. Time to try a new approach with new coaches who can hopefully better communicate how the F.O. wants to to hit. OR - just let the hitters hit the same way they have for their entire lives, they've been successful enough to make it to the show - lets not try to fix what isn't broken?
  15. farmerguychris
    Do we really need a 'primary' one? Just send out whatever lefty is more rested and looking better lately when needed. Do like having 2 in the pen at the same time.
  16. farmerguychris
    Sure he's still a viable MLB bat - but like probably most good hitters, the league is throwing him things he has trouble with - as they should. Send him down and work on improving his weaknesses. When he has that done, bring him back up and we'll certainly find a spot for him. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Now if he was out of options, whole different question.
  17. farmerguychris
    Its hard to watch too often. Knowing they have runners in scoring position - they try to do too much and end up whiffing?
  18. farmerguychris
    Someone else here mentioned that our swings are often all or nothing and that we seem to be hitting grounder, grounder, grounder. I love the new analytics kind of baseball, but I've often wondered that while our current leaders do make decisions on these analytics that other teams are also doing the same thing, but doing a better job of using their analytics to adjust to our team's analytical decisions? Example - they know we're only going to try to hit with good launch angles and high exit velocity. Therefore - only give us pitches that are the hardest to hit with good launch angles or high exit velocity. That's how I'd pitch us.
  19. farmerguychris
    At least Gallo and Sano are gone? They are hitting 0.000 and 0.100 over the first week of the season. I was hoping once those 2 were gone our team average would increase - seems they were about average for us to start the year.
  20. farmerguychris
    Sure, the list isn't impressive - but what team has studs as their #6-10 starters just waiting for a chance. I'm sure Pablo was at one time sitting in the minors waiting for his chance to try it in the bigs.
  21. farmerguychris
    Of course - how could you not be encouraged. A year ago we had him penciled in as our long term 3rd base solution - it he can get back to where he was we'll be a better team for it.
  22. farmerguychris
    His year end WAR needs to match or exceed his discounted salary. I think that should be the goal for the rest of his career. He accepted an incentive laden contract due to health concerns. Hopefully he gets paid lots of incentives, but if now - we need to get at least what we are paying for.
  23. farmerguychris
    I'm not surprised to see this, but wasn't he just NL Championship MVP 2 years ago for Atlanta?
  24. farmerguychris
    Cuddy would have my vote - Has perspective of so many different on-field roles over the years. Also always thought he was very well spoken. Would like to see if Dozier could have a guest spot as well to give it a try.
  25. farmerguychris
    With their inference that they are losing money - do any of us really think they'll sign anyone at all? I, for one, am skeptical.
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