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  1. TheLeviathan
    Pfft...our track record of pitcher health records is impeccable!
  2. TheLeviathan
    Nice lotto ticket and a dude hitting well in AA sounds good by me. Bader might be likable, but he's not supee valuable. I like the return.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Would anyone have rather done Duran for De Vries? Not sure we have the equivalent of Sears.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Preach Brock. The Pohlads have brought this reality upon us. They pulled the payroll out from under their FO and their chosen FO wasn't creative enough to pivot and find solutions. We've never quite got the development thing humming and even when we feel like we have talent, we're always facing down the impending doom of having to pay them knowing ownership will fight tooth and nail to do it. I wish I could believe the Pohlads are in their final days with this organization.....but I can't shake the feeling that their inability to do basic business is going to keep being a problem. Even down to them selling that business off for a mind-blowing level of profit. This fan isn't going to believe they're done bungling until the press conference with the new owners happens.
  5. TheLeviathan
    The middle infield age cliff is a real thing......
  6. TheLeviathan
    I really hope they have a plan to unlock some tweeks with him. The organization has proven a knack for that with pitchers to at least some small degree.
  7. TheLeviathan
    This thread is a monument to how the Pohlads are the true villain here. They're the reason we have to sell. The reason we're all pissed about our situation. The reason we have no future options to improve it. They managed to make 1.2M for The Dobber a hot button issue. (For good reason - Eff those cheapskates) But nothing encapsulates our predicament more than this thread. Ugh.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I expected him up, but maybe they just want to work with him a bit and line his rest up with the rotation slot he's going into.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, definitely have never heard a single NFL fan complain about how offense plays and the difficulty player safety rules have caused defenses...... The cows are dead. Burgers ain't coming back.
  10. TheLeviathan
    If they're lucky! /s (Edited to make sure no one read that seriously!)
  11. TheLeviathan
    I was on board to shop Duran and I'm still in support of making bold moves. We've been the worst team in baseball for most of the summer, no sacred cows. That said....Painter, Miller, or Crawford needed to be in this deal for me. I'd feel much different about it if they were. As is....not happy with the targets they got back. I hope I end up wrong.
  12. TheLeviathan
    If anybody wants some salt in their wounds, check this out:
  13. TheLeviathan
    There it is folks - a rental reliever just netted two nice AAA prospects. The third guy ain't bad either.
  14. TheLeviathan
    People are aware of their record since June 1st right? 19-32 since June 1st White Sox are 20-29 (Did a quick count, might be wrong) We're not "becoming" bad. We ARE bad. We WERE bad.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Ok...well let's use that analogy: why do you then return to that same burger place over and over and over again and expect anything different? Knowing - and this is the key - with absolute certainty that it's never going back. It can't go back. Cows are dead. We live in a world now where the ingredients of that previous burger literally do not exist on the planet. Griping....knowing that.....seems really absurd doesn't it? That's the problem baseball fans have. The other major sports let their eyeballs work and see the plainly simple truth: there is no going back.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I don't necessarily agree. There are many people that wish football was back to three yards and a cloud of dust. Lots of hockey fans wish it was 7-5 every night. NBA fans hate that the mid-range game has dried up. I think baseball fans just happen to be the most resistant bunch of fans to change. They always have been. Half the league held nonsense arguments about "strategy" for decades so they could keep running guys out there who were hitting .090 in the 9 hole. Baseball fans haven't accepted that your 9 hitter today is putting together much better at-bats, with much more potential for damage than 40 years ago. That your average 4th starter today is throwing the ball at a velocity, with a spin rate, and a repertoire that would've made them an ace in 1970. Baseball doesn't let you "see" the growth in athleticism the way jumping does in the NBA. Or the agility and ferocity of the NFL. Or the skating and goalie magic of the NHL. It's more subtle. Extra velocity. More dive on a pitch. More spin you can't see on your TV. Arm angles that don't translate on your viewing experience. So combine the fact that many baseball fans are more predisposed to resist change with a more subtle (but still wildly impactful) athleticism....and it's a recipe for the complaints. I get it. I just wish more fans tried to understand why it's changing rather than just griping about it.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Fair, those dynamics from afar seem odd. I seem to recall last year some squabbles that became public that I thought centered on those two. Frankly...part of my reason for selling is because I don't see the vision or the captain to lead it on this team. If it weren't for the misers pocketing the money, I'd be cheering hard to make this deal happen.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I'll take Christian Walker and an A-ball flyer. I think Correa hit the early 30s wall and I want to tap out while I can. I hate saying that knowing the Pohlads will dink around with the money and put us back in the Terry Ryan Discount Aisle of player acquisition. But better that than forcing a diminished player out at the most important position on the field while paying 20% of payroll to him to be a negative value.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I'm not arguing that point...but what about the tension that seems to exist with him and Royce?
  20. TheLeviathan
    This is a fantastic post and more people who struggle with the modern way baseball is played/has changed should read it and really let it sink in. It's ok to not like the way the game has shifted, but it didn't happen overnight and some of it is forced by the evolution of athletes. If you try to play like Grandpa and have your starters go 7,8,9 every game....get ready to eat a lot of Ls. Every sport has evolved. The goalies Gretzky played against look comically bad if you go back and watch. Football looks like you put your video speed a x2.5 compared to games in the 70s. Basketball is barely recognizable in terms of athleticism. Baseball is no different.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Yup, just shifting our focus and hoping to see signs of growth and progress. But hey....at least if we're going to be bad, let's be young and bad and not old and bad.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I mean....we've been the worst team in the Majors for almost two months now. This is likely what we face for the last two months. A lot of young guys and patched together games. It isn't great....but nothing other than two weeks in May have been that. Hopefully the deadline offers something to hope for.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Ah, misread the MLB bio and missed that it said he did last year. Good catch, thank you.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Can I ask where you read about his catching skills? Just curious.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I liked the running aspect of his game. I'm intrigued with adding him, but the other pieces don't move the needle enough for me in that offer.
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