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  1. TheLeviathan
    You counted on three guys better served to hit 6-7-8 to be your 2-3-5. I'd say that's part of the problem.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Right, you could argue we didn't have a single known quantity in the OF on our 40 man roster going into the season. Not one single player you could reliably count on as both a solid defender and offensive contributor. Or, if they had shown those qualities the previous year there were still huge red flags attached. But then, some of us have been crowing about the outfield disaster waiting to happen for about 6 months now.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I don't think you have to give a guy a shot by completely decimating the 40 roster of guys that play the same position. This is the second time we rolled with a very young CF and had virtually nothing in line to help should he struggle.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Something is definitely amiss in the whole process. But I think it all stems from an organizational philosophy that seems to have lost the idea of trusting young talent to struggle to sucess but also has ignored putting them in the best positions to succeed. We have too many infielders in the outfield and too many low ceiling veterans in the rotation. We just seem to think you can shuffle people around however you'd like and things just work out. Time to clean house.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I'm with spycake, this plan is the worst of both worlds. If we play the vets in hopes of trade value we have three possible outcomes: 1) They stink and we wasted at-bats and innings on guys that are not part of the solution only to be bad anyway and get nothing out of them in deals. 2) They're decent to pretty good and we get lulled into a false sense of security that these players are actually part of the future and dismiss the first two months as a fluke and don't trade any of them. 3) They're pretty good but we believe we should trade them, leaving that option in the hands of a notorious non-dealer at the deadline. Meaning few, if any, actually get traded to make room for the kids. I simply don't see how this plan can be spun positively.
  6. TheLeviathan
    We don't have a better option. Though, in our trades this year, I hope it's a position highly prioritized.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Why would you deal Arcia for pennies on the dollar? This is the team this team needs to roll with by Aug 1: Kepler LF Polanco SS Mauer 1B Sano 3B Park DH Arcia RF 2B Dozier C Murphy (or player traded for) CF Buxton The guys that need to move are Plouffe and at least two of the starters. Arcia should not be on that list. The guy just turned 25 and is figuring it out. Rosario will hvae to earn some time back, but ideally our 4th OF in this situation is a right-handed stick.
  8. TheLeviathan
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  9. TheLeviathan
    I hear a cow will get you magic beans, but that's as serious as I can entertain with this.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I think the Cubs are demonstrating how you have to have a really specific plan for what you like and what you don't and build with that. I think Terry comes from an era where you just assembled assets and tried to fit them as you go. Epstien has brilliantly targeted hitters with high picks and high value trades because he knows that scouting their future impact is generally more reliable. (Plus they are less likely to have injury issues and longer careers) He's supplemented the pitching staff with buy-low moves and free agent dollars. That basic framework is so easy to replicate. Or, hell, do something else smart for all I care - but time for a total change in organizational framework. Gut the whole front office.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Oh good god I could actually see this happening. Thanks for the nightmares buddy.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Firing Ryan and replacing him with Anthony would be utterly pointless. I'm sure Rob Anthony is a fine person, but he'd be a god awful replacement choice. No one should be fine with this organizations nepotism any more.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Sure you do, the problem is not consistency vs. competency, it's what degree of competency you'll accept from a player on your bench. Would I be totally opposed to Aaron Hicks the 4th OF? No, but I was arguing against the suggestion that Aaron Hicks is more than that. I also would prefer a significantly better Plan B for Buxton than him. The Twins could've signed someone capable of playing CF and played them in RFuntil he was needed. Now this required adding someone like Fowler (who I said all offseason would've been my top priority) and it would've required dumping the asinine idea of moving Sano to RF by trading Plouffe. However they did it, the point was that no one on the roster was a sufficient Plan B for Buxton including Hicks. They needed to go outside and avoid the mistake they made when they rushed Hicks, instead they doubled down with Buxton.
  14. TheLeviathan
    For me, I think Polanco needs to take primarily Escobar's at-bats. We should see if the kid can be our shortstop. I'd rather test him there first and find out he can't do it. Kepler-Polanco-Mauer-Sano-Park-Arcia(or Rosario)-Dozier-Murphy-Buxton. I'd like to see that by no later than August 1st. That's the group that needs to be invested in at this point. Berrios-May-Duffey should all be in the rotation too.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Yup, this is the path back to contention, it's also the only thing to hold on to for positivity. I hope we can be seeing this going in the right direction in August.
  16. TheLeviathan
    "Where are the prospects" doesn't require a literal answer. The question is really "Why aren't they helping if you've kept telling us they're so good" That's the question that needs answering. Or, perhaps, if you like these guys so much...why do you keep bypassing them for organizational filler?
  17. TheLeviathan
    No, it's not. My opinion of him is based on him being a bad baseball player and there is ample evidence of it. We're talking about a player that came back in July last year and was pretty good - other than that one short stretch of the season he was considerably below average. A guy who hits 10 homeruns in a week and then absolutely sucks for 5 weeks may normalize into a semi-competent player but that didn't change the fact that he was a black hole of terrible play for 5 weeks. That's what Hicks is. He can't do anything consistently enough to be a competent player you can rely on.
  18. TheLeviathan
    If that's the extent of your bar for backup plans than you must have liked Danny Santana and Jordan Schafer? I guess my bar is "be at least competent baseball players" - of which we've had no one who qualifies for about 5 or 6 years now. And Aaron Hicks would've been no different.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, he might have been better than Clete Thomas or whomever, but if we are going to keep calling up raw AA center fielders we should have a much better plan B. Hicks has been putrid, again, and wouldn't be doing this team any more favors than Murphy did.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I wanted them to deal Plouffe and sign Fowler to play RF and be an option in CF. So, yeah, I agree that he's better than those two horrible options.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I think he some value as a bench player, but his defense is overrated in CF (IMO). He'snot good enough for a plan B for a risk like Buxton, not for me at least.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I actually like that lineup if you just pick up Brian Dozier and Trevor Plouffe and replace them exactly with Park and Arcia.
  23. TheLeviathan
    You know who he is a lot more like? Jason Repko. Let's stop polishing Jason Repko into Torii Hunter. He's still Jason Repko. Plan B shouldn't be Jason Repko. Did saying that name four times plant it firmly enough for some of you to take real stock of what Aaron Hicks actually is and not what you want him to be?
  24. TheLeviathan
    We should hold ourselves to a slightly higher bar for CF.
  25. TheLeviathan
    There is a lower scrap heap than "traded straight up for John Ryan Murphy"?
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