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  1. beekay414
    Not a fan. Low level of competition with no real standout tool and a low impact swing. Just don't see it with this kid to take him in the 2nd round. EDIT - Actually, I should give the kid more of a chance with the success we've had with a similarly profiled player in Black.
  2. beekay414
    He'll get every opportunity to start. Think Lance McCullers.
  3. beekay414
    Think more McCullers than Gray.
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  5. beekay414
    I have no problem double dipping at 3B. Still a shot that Wilken ends up at 1B or DH long term.
  6. beekay414
    I really want Nolan Schanuel but I doubt we'll place 1st round value on someone that's a 1B/COF type. Kid can flat out rake. Real chance to add some real good talent to this system tonight. I'm excited.
  7. beekay414
    Not sure Strzelecki can come back up yet.
  8. beekay414
    Have to DFA him
  9. beekay414
    Because fans overvalue their prospects. You have to subsidize your roster. You can't just draft and develop and target spend and win in this league. Plus, there's just no real way of saying this as a fact. You're simply overvaluing prospects. Windows close rapidly for small market teams and there's no guarantee Frelick, Mitchell and Turang amount to anything. LIS, they aren't elite prospects. Kyle Schwarber is incapable of single handedly lifting a team? Didn't he basically keep the NL Champion Phillies afloat this season when they were sputtering as a team? Jorge Soler is incapable of riding a heater? I mean, the man won World Series MVP for a reason (but you don't count that for convenience). Soler had a 132 wRC+ for the Braves and hit 14 HR in 55 games. You're right, he wouldn't have made any difference for us. My bad. Only would have cost us money to acquire but we couldn't take that gamble because of JBJ.
  10. beekay414
    Again, those are just examples. They didn't build on the roster, they tanked it. They weakened a position of strength and didn't get an impact bat while doing so. I'm not talking about a million or two, here. I'm talking significant money. The money we gave to McCutchen. I'm also not talking about spending money on the hole they created by making a misguided trade.
  11. beekay414
    Yes because prospects are prospects and none of them are of the elite variety so going for it is better than the half assed approach we've taken. I'd rather go after it and lose than watch that team score 6 runs in 4 games and blow what looks to be our last realistic shot at winning in this window. If it fails, you have Burnes, Woodruff and Hader (at that time) that you can recoup prospect value on down the line. Do you regret trading Michael Brantley and Matt LaPorta for CC Sabathia?
  12. beekay414
    Schwarber was a National at that time, just a FYI. Those were just examples...Jorge Soler (Royals), Joey Gallo (Rangers), Starling Marte (Marlins) are also other guys that were actually traded. Making calls doesn't really mean anything. Just like we "made calls" on Juan Soto last year.
  13. beekay414
    Slice it however you want, $12 Million for a 4th OF was a wasted resource. We got more value out of Tyrone Taylor in the same role.
  14. beekay414
    Adames and Tellez made scraps in 2021. That's not the type of move I'm talking about. Instead of an Escobar, we could've made a play on a Bryant, Rizzo or Schwarber had we not paid JBJ. 2022? We literally traded a big piece off our team rather than build on it.
  15. beekay414
    Who? Nobody in my circle bought into it. He had 1 outlier full season as an above average MLB hitter. The season we signed him off of was SSS and BABIP fueled. He had 3 full seasons of 89, 90 and 89 wRC+. Nothing about spending money on him made sense. Even taking out his last two putrid seasons, he was a career .239 hitter when we signed him. The signs were there for anyone looking.
  16. beekay414
    I'll obviously agree on the bullpen options, since ours currently consists of Devin Williams and a bunch of fodder. Turner and Drury are obvious as well and should be prime targets. Longo's breaking down and likely wants to return to Tampa, so money is best spent elsewhere. Grossman and Myers add nothing that we can't find in house (Myers annoys the hell out of me, he's too talented to be as meh as he's been in his career). Mancini would be nice but I'm not sure he takes a 1 year deal and I'm also not sure we'd go 2 or more for a 1B/RF and Rios is a dart throw. We'll see what happens.
  17. beekay414
    No, I simply forgot about him because he fell in line with the "smart spending" that I specifically mentioned in that same post, so I'll eat crow there. JBJ was the one they sold to us as the big signing and then Cutch came next. We were basically lighting money on fire with those 2 and it hindered any type of in-season movement we could've made (Mark can spare me on the "money wasn't an issue" trade deadline debacle and pinning that all on Stearns. It's not a coincidence that Stearns stepped away the next chance he got).
  18. beekay414
    I never said they won't sign anyone, I said they won't spend to upgrade. Grandal, Moose and Avi were when Burnes and Woody were cheaper and those were also pre-Covid seasons. The seasons post Covid have not inspired any confidence that we'll spend smart. No one expects them to sign 10 year megadeals so we can cut that out of the discussion. What 2nd tier FAs do you think we'll entertain? I want to see what your definition of "2nd tier" is.
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    It's absolutely based in reality. Their track record literally proves it. Jackie Bradley Jr and Andrew McCutchen are what they sold us the last two seasons. But, sure, they'll spend for real this time because Mark said so.
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    Part of the reasoning why I have my doubts is that this is a franchise that sold us JBJ and McCutchen as their prior offseason moves when they were going for a World Series. There's just no real reason to be confident that they'll actually pull a 2B/3B upgrade off the market. They don't have the track record to blindly believe they'll get it done. Until they actually do, my stance won't ever change.
  21. beekay414
    Cute
  22. beekay414
    No but you need to be able to subsidize where and when you can. The bullpen is a prime example. We chose to shed money there and go with the dart throw approach. It's Devin Williams and a mess of middle relievers (or worse) that we hope one or two will be able to pick up high leverage. Offseason is long and not over but, so far, nothing they've done indicates they plan on spending money to upgrade.
  23. beekay414
    Fun stuff, man. Rather than going out to get a real 2B/3B, we're throwing darts at the board (cheaply) hoping they stick. Good ole Mark!
  24. beekay414
    Ruiz is far from an elite prospect
  25. beekay414
    Even if Yelich continues to be overpaid, that deal was insanely good for us. 4 lottery tickets that turned out to be nothing for 2 years of an MVP level bat.
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