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  1. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, those are two reaches that hurt our hopes.
  2. TheLeviathan
    That was "franchise QB" price for a CB.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Good lord what an overpay.
  4. TheLeviathan
    This team both feels too talented to be incompetent and not talented enough to be competitive. I blame the pitching staff for the former and the stone-handed sloths that play the field for the latter. Methinks we get a frustrating mix of both this year.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Agreed. Honestly, with this team's pitching and crappy division they need like....one dude......to start hitting like an all-star and swinging their fortunes around. I mean, had it not been for arguably one of our top 5 players (Jax) single-handedly turning 3 wins into losses this team would be 12-13 and 3 games out of the lead. The division is that bad.
  6. TheLeviathan
    They only lost by 9 and looked like they were literally shooting bricks. It's a loss I feel strangely good about. Especially since even a few big moment makes (like Edwards with a chance to cut it to 6 in transition or Conley had a chance to cut to 10 late in the third) and that game might have been a sneaky win.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I work with kids that are basically straight out of the age group from The Sandlot. Prime baseball age. In a state where you can play baseball year round. (Arizona) And I'll repeat what I've been saying here for a decade: MLB has a crisis on their hands. Kids don't care. More kids would know the Savannah Bananas logo than their local team. They'd likely be able to name more players on the Bananas than their local team. Kids are not invested in MLB. There are some diehards, sure....but I think MLB's average fan (60, white, male) would be pretty shocked by how irrelevant baseball is for kids.
  8. TheLeviathan
    The new voice is really the only thing I think would change. I think a lot of the day to day, game-day stuff is organizational. The same guy who hired Rocco would hire the replacement and be looking for the same things. But yeah, sometimes a fresh human saying the same things the last guy did can lead to vastly different results. Humans are weird that way.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'm not necessarily making a defense and the season is pretty young so I can't say I know of any quotes this year. My personal opinion is that our position players are just not good enough. Maybe someone else could squeeze more out of them, I'm not opposed to trying that. I just know where I'd put my money on how much that change would show up with a new guy. We have a bunch of #6 hitters who aren't great fielders.
  10. TheLeviathan
    In fairness, I think the majority of a manager's impact is outside public purview. Good or bad. Rocco's players talk about him in ways that would indicate he's good at that unseen element.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I just assume we are stuck with the Pohlads. We dont know their contracts, but I know if either were given a healthy extension....Pohlads arent paying double.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I mean.....are we sure that these guys won't keep their jobs? Isn't at least part of why Ryan was GM (both times) because he was cheap and the Pohlads weren't going to be saddled with paying both a current and former GM a hefty deal?
  13. TheLeviathan
    I personally don't see much upside in a replacement either. The only "solution" is fielding a much better group of position players and I don't think replacing the manager fixes that. But, as @Danchat mentioned, I'm game to see how much of what we see day to day as being organization vs. Rocco. I'm also willing to bet that whoever replaces him does things very, very similarly.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Unfortunately....we're the ones who reap what they sowed. We're stuck with them.
  15. TheLeviathan
    After yesterday? Yes. Before that? Too soon IMO.
  16. TheLeviathan
    This season's start has been miserable, but consider this: If our all-world reliever/closer/setup man Griffin Jax had just been competent.....we'd be 10-10. Nothing to write home about, but also nothing to be in panic mode about. Baseball is weird.
  17. TheLeviathan
    What? Jax is our best reliever. (At least he was as of 6 weeks ago) He was brought in to to a clean 8th with a three run lead. That is exactly how you help him work out of his funk and get back on track.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Oh for sure....my point was that it doesn't feel anywhere this close to reality and also.....who had Jax in their "sabotage the season" rankings as #1. Just weird.
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  20. TheLeviathan
    We are a .500 team if Jax is even 3/4 of last year.
  21. TheLeviathan
    He put in Jax.....in the 8th......how tf is this on Baldelli? Jax is single-handedly Paganing April.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I think that's a real possibility. The Vikings have set up next year's draft pick allocation about as perfectly as you can, leverage any QB in demand to get yourself another pick in the second/early third.
  23. TheLeviathan
    If one of the higher ranked safeties is there, I'd be good with that. Wonder if the Cine debacle squashes that though.....
  24. TheLeviathan
    This is it for me. Tampa always seems to have a couple speedy young players on the horizon. Or position players with huge upsides. Milwaukee is always churning out good defensive players. Cleveland has a lot of well rounded players. We're trying to win a beer league softball game it feels like.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I considered both of those, but I think they need a third tight end. Mundt was on the field a lot and Hockenson isn't exactly reliable. TE class is pretty good, LB class is pretty bad. Safety you're probably right, I may have neglected that. But something tells me Jay Ward is the new Theo Jackson.
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