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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. beekay414
    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.
  7. beekay414
    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.
  8. beekay414
    Cute
  9. 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.
  10. 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!
  11. beekay414
    Ruiz is far from an elite prospect
  12. 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.
  13. beekay414
    To trade him and save $2 Million from the buyout.
  14. beekay414
    And the payroll with those projections was still trending bottom 3rd in the league or right about. Mark's penny pinching and that's really all there is to it. There's a reason Stearns stepped away. Arnold was willing to be Mark's lackey, David wasn't. We'll see soon enough. I'll gladly eat crow if I'm wrong.
  15. beekay414
    I'm not talking about what the rest of the league has done. I'm simply commenting that every move thus far has been of the cost cutting variety. Between letting multiple viable relievers go over a whopping $6m to trading our best bat from the last year for spare parts over paying him $11m. I fully expect Wong to be shipped out as well to save even more. Until they add viable payroll, I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt. If it's a scrapheap signing like Cutch or JBJ, they're unserious about winning going forward. Their sights are set on aiming for that 7th seed with as low a payroll as possible.
  16. beekay414
    Yeah they'll need to prove this wasn't a cost cutting move before I take their comments at face value. Nothing they've done yet indicates anything other than cutting costs.
  17. beekay414
    And I'm still not convinced that Stearns didn't step down due to direction of the team.
  18. beekay414
    We'll find out the true direction of the team after we know what happens with Wong and Renfroe. If they trade Wong to save $2 Million and then move off Renfroe's ~$11 Million, they're cost cutting everywhere they can. Got a ways to go before we find out but my cost cutting spidey senses are tingling.
  19. beekay414
    I've seen better hitting in tee-ball
  20. beekay414
    This last week has been institutional failure on all levels. Wholesale changes are needed.
  21. beekay414
    6 seasons. That mutual option isn't happening. Also, Yelich can DH.
  22. beekay414
    Regardless. The point remains. Would you rather cash in on Adames alone or attach Yelich to him? Or would you wait to attach Yelich to Burnes/Woody when we inevitably move off them? Or just eat it and deal with him for the next 7 years? The organizational rank is irrelevant for the exercise of the question. Ignore that, if need be. I didn't feel like jumping on BTV for obvious reasons. Simply consider it Adames and Yelich for fliers.
  23. beekay414
    Say the Dodgers lose Turner and then don't sign any of Correa, Bogaerts or Swanson and they are in the market for a SS and they want Adames. Would you rather take a better package for Adames alone (say two top 15 LAD prospects) or a lesser package but we get to attach Yelich's deal (where one top 15 LAD prospect is the headliner and the rest of the package is lottery tickets)?
  24. beekay414
    Alcantara tomorrow while the Phils have a DH vs the Nats. Big day. We lose and the Phils manage to win both, you can pretty much put this season to bed.
  25. beekay414
    Counsell couldn't manage a Walmart
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