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Left his feet.

I always disagreed with when someone is in a 0-20 type slide and they get a hit the announcers are like "He broke out of his slump!". The player is still mired in a 1-21 slump. Jobu couldn't hit breaking balls and it's pretty difficult to learn at the MLB level. Jobu also offered nothing on defense. Sano reminds me more of a modern day Jhonkensky Noel than Emma. As mentioned, Emma has the propensity to wait to long, often missing the most "hittable" pitch of an AB, but IMO it's easier to learn selectivity and become more aggressive in-zone than teaching someone how to lay off a nasty breaking ball or changup. Defensively it's not even a convo. Emma looks far better than I thought both at the plate and in the field. Not always the smoothest, but that's an experience thing. You can see why he gets hurt also with his style of play. He plays a little like Keaschall with his hair on fire and some people just get hurt. To an extent he's his worst enemy. Emma/LeRoooooooy Jenkins/Keaschall/Buxton is fun to envision moving forward.

i was trying to be kind.

never said anything about Clemens, I'm referring to specifically the fact Kriedler should get about 250 ABs a year and if Ross is on the MLB roster, we've suffered massive failure/injuries. Moving Clemens off being the primary option at 2B is, IMHO, the stupidest thing Jeremy/Shelton could do.

Bohm is about the only guy I'd be interested in since he can also play 3B, but out of that list you may as well have Bell back.

see...Rooker...Brent

If this is the plan at 2B...

THIS. The league has dramatically changed over the past 5 years. IMO teams are afraid (esp. w/pitchers) to have them throw any more than needed unless they dealt with injuries. The league has become more "what do we have with player x" vs. this is a key guy moving forward let's get him as many AB/Inn's as possible. The Cubs, Brewers, Seattle for example have some complex league level players every bit as good or better than some of the AFL guys. It's about age and an almost, last chance to prove you belong.

I think Raya has a future, maybe not high leverage, but the stuff is there. I think we'll see Soto progress in a similar way and if in 5 years we have Raya and Soto in high leverage roles with someone maybe like Morris closing(?) that's a lot of gas and power arms from the 3rd base side

While I don't disagree, there's a few assumptions we're making here that are 1) All BB has proven (sadly) through his career is his magic number for games played sits in the 90-100 range. There's ZERO evidence he's more than that. 140 games 1x (2017) and played over 100 2x since 2017. He's never going to be that guy and trying to "get" him to play 110'ish or more games hurts us (like this year) more than it helps. It's a waste of energy to guess what BB playing 130 games means because it simply hasn't happened. He's averaged 82 games since 2015. 2) Similar thing with JR - 1st half over is career (516+ inn, 3.17 ERA) vs 2nd half (245 inn, 4.96 ERA). While his xFIP between the two are similar, JR is a bit of an outlier because you can't exactly pinpoint where it's going wrong other than injury and hard hit %. JR, like BB, has done nothing (over his shorter career arch) to prove otherwise. We hope he figures it out, but hope is not a strategy. If there's any type of season in 2027, I have optimism we'll compete for AL Central. They're most likely going to have to spend, maybe a considerable amount. Our season ending payroll is I think less than $110MM - what IF they had to reach a floor of a suspected $171MM+ floor? $60MM can fix a lot of our problems and it doesn't mean just going and signing Skubal to a $45/yr deal. Would be fun to go after a Pivetta (metrics are way better than #'s), Carlos Estevez, Alec Bohm, and obviously the BP. And so F'ing help me if we go into next year with Caratini as our #1!

Hear me out why the Dodgers would jump at Buxton for Sho...

Quite a few other defensive metrics. you're not wrong, but the point is he didn't fall short or exceed expectations

Caratini was/is exactly who he's been, a slightly above average defensive catcher who has a streaky bat. He's performed at pretty much as expected.

We have a middle of the pack offense as is, I think there's going to be a minimum in the $150+ million range meaning the Twins will have to spend on someone/body. Nobody would trade Bradley back to the TB for Jax. It's a stupid argument.

If you're trying to "win" - fans and games I'd say no. Hypothetically depending on what the next CBA looks like you have 2 chances to trade Ryan, albeit for a smaller package and 1 more chance for Pablo. If you go into 2027 with Lopez/Ryan/Bradley as your playoff Big 3, if they can hit there's a formidable group. If we're all in on a youth movement and a collection of prospects, sure they should've been traded or should be. IMHO we've solved one the hardest things to solve in baseball - 3 top of the rotation, WS caliber starters. Lopez should never be traded for what he is in the locker room and in the community, how many of us would trade Bradley back for Jax today. I love prospects as much as the next person, but whatever 2027 looks like we should be excited as this team could be in the mid 80s to low 90s in wins if they can hit.

I guess in a way the team MVP could be both...not disagreeing and I'm a huge Clemens defender...

At this point if they're willing to waste 2 weeks on Ben Ross as a reward for a great MINOR LEAGUE season, they may as well give Sabato some/most/all of some combination of Bell/Lewis.

For better or worse (I know they WON'T do it), but Bell and Larnach should probably get a handful of ABs the rest of the way. I've tried to defend (mostly in my head) the roster, but what a waste of 2 weeks as plenty of others have said. I understand rewarding guys, but you don't reward guys in a playoff push. You have to have your best available and Ben Ross and Alex Jackson are not in that convo, no offense to them. Yet I'm also timidly expecting ERod to pull a hammy before the EOS.

I think from his side he'd want to get his Arb years bought out, meaning a short extension and willing to settle for a little less AAV. Moderate amount of risk on both sides. He could probably get $4 - $5'ish in Arb, but then he's not a FA until 2030. He's not going to be high in demand as a first time FA at age 34 season. This is assuming little changes in the CBA with Arb, but that's not going to happen. This is Clemens chance to cash in and he's obviously going to wait it out, but not sure a 3/$15 makes a ton of sense, but I'd hate to see him leave.

I'll jump on whatever bandwagon I need to be on and say Jenkins has been the victim of (gulp) some bad luck per analytics. Using SOME of them: .125 AVE (xBA .274) - BABIP .136 - Exit Velo 85.6 (slightly below) - Hard hit 38.1% (below) - Barrel rate of 4.8% (below) It's interesting because in a small sample size he's not "squaring it up" at league average...but he's making quality contact when it is squared up yet he's hitting right at people...I think? I welcome for anyone with a better understanding of analytics explain this to me, which won't take much. As for ERod, I think he'll get his chance coming out of ST (if not traded) and if he struggles he's going to get the 'ol "shoulder - inflammation" need some rehab games, flares up, more rehab and call back. The other 2 are no brainers.

I can think of at least 16 pitchers WORSE than Acton we've deployed since last year's sell off or earlier - Topa, Laweryson, Luis Garcia, Justin Lawrence, Jack Anderson, Woo Suk Go-away, Austin Voth, Zak Kent, Jorge Alcala, Pierson Ohl, Thomas Hatch, Michael Tonkin, Brooks Kriske, Genesis Cabrera, Jose Urena, Noah Davis. If Acton is nothing more than organizational depth, he's at got at least one thing elite (or close to) that most of these other arms don't or lost or never had.

Definition of "Organizational Depth"

I was scoffed at but didn't understand why (maybe no takers) they didn't explore moving him and is $6.5MM at the deadline. That number offsets the QO cost to Jeffers a bit, but hopefully they'll HAVE to spend for next year and resign Jeffers to a shorter type deal.

But I don't disagree with 90% of what you said.

My oldest son (18) has the congenital defect and on his MRI you could see the extra bone growth and like you they wanted to shave it down. As frustrated as I've been with BB over the years, knowing the hip impingement is most likely a torn labrum as the primary cause, it's actually nice to know because I can relate to it a bit better. There is unfortunately no overnight, quick fix to this other than going under the knife. The stretching, injections, etc. they're all temporary fixes that don't matter one bit if he/us move the wrong way. What I'd share with fans is I've had to "remake" my golf swing (it wasn't good anyway), but I can't imagine at all trying to hit at the MLB level with knowing if you do just a little too much you're going to get that quick pain. It's always in the back of my head not to do too much and that's no way to be a professional athlete.