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  1. Mr. Brooks
    And if you have the audacity to support someone who is not bought by corporate interests, you get mockingly called a "Bernie Bro".
  2. Mr. Brooks
    I doubt there is a formula. I'm just saying, their ages are deceptive when compared directly. College coaches are mostly trying to win ballgames, not waste the little time they have these guys on long term development.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Can't really compare a college pick to a 16 year old signing in terms of development age. Astudillo may be a year younger than garver, but he's already been playing pro baseball 11 years now.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    It's always possible that the Yankees were wrong in their evaluation.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Where on earth did I ever do that?
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Definitely very possible considering the source of both the initial report as well as the follow up.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    I think it was just precautionary, as Sands had suffered a few minor injuries late in his 2018 FSU season.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    I hope it's that, and not that they didn't know the rules. But who would it be? Is anyone on the roster banged up right now?
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Austin has a .659 career OPS vs righties. And that is over 263 career plate appearances. If you want to declare that he can't hit righties based on 263 career plate appearances, have at it, I won't.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    It's not at all concerning to you if the FO doesn't even know the basic transaction rules?
  11. Mr. Brooks
    If they couldn't recall Littell, then why did they tell him to be ready to come up on Saturday? If the FO didn't know the rules, that is very concerning.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Unless one of your catchers gets hurt, now that awful bat is playing in 1/3 of the games, instead of just a slightly below average for a catcher bat. The post I was responding to stated they would be fine dumping Castro, then bringing up Navarreto as the backup if Garver or Astudillo got hurt.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Navarreto has a .573 milb OPS. To put that into perspective, Drew Butera had a .610 milb OPS. Jason Castro had an .804 milb OPS. With all the hyperbole about how awful Castro is with the bat, I find it fascinating that people want to replace it with someone who will hit much much worse.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    That 40 man spot already went to DeJong.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Bobby Wilson has a career .577 OPS. By which measurement is Castro not markedly better than Wilson?
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Amen to that. Some of the defensive configurations during the later years of Gardy were awful.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    I was assuming Astudillo is already starting somewhere. If that's what it takes to get him into the lineup, then sure. But I don't know why you'd start a guy capable of playing premium positions like catcher and third base at first base on a regular basis.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    I have less problem with that in this new era of bullpen management. Starters are pulled as much based on times through the order as they are pitch count. If the first pitch is a good one, go for it.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Because if Cron gets hurt, Austin can take over at 1B. If Cruz gets hurt, Cron can move to DH, or Austin can fill DH. I certainly wasn't suggesting that Cruz could play 1B, I doubt anyone else was either.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Sure. It's also possible that, at age 38, he might perform significantly worse than that, even with fresh legs. If they work him into a game or two or a few out there I won't complain. I'm just happy that they aren't trying to force him out there everytime we don't have a DH, as I feel Gardy or Molitor would have.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    To me, it boils down to the idea that I don't approve of giving assets away until you absolutely have to. Especially when your an organization that is never going to go out and sign a Harper or Machado. Austin will likely never haunt us the way someone like Ortiz did. There is a good chance he'll never haunt us at all. But, I still consider him an asset at this point in his career.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    I suppose a magic 8 ball might work as well.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    I'd argue that it's much more likely the Mariners only gave him 9 starts in the field over 2 years because he's terrible out there, not because they were trying to keep his legs fresh.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Rosie needs to watch a game from the bench right now. I don't know what's going in with him, I won't be surprised if we find out later that he has something else on his mind right now. If you take out Gonzalez's outlier 2017 season, his career offensive numbers don't look much different than Adrianza's, so I'm not ready to claim that's a downgrade just yet.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    I agree he should have been worked in more. Disagree that you might as well cut him if you don't. Cron or Cruz could get hurt tomorrow.
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