WestEddy

I'm funnin' ya. Madrigal should be able to be gotten for ... I don't know. Jonathan Stiever. Or even a PTBNL. I just think that any vets gum up the return, unless it's "taking money back".

He means, get Pete Crow-Armstrong, then perform an a cappella piece with many voices.

Of course they were. I'm just unsure how "combined age" makes any argument stronger. Everybody I argued with decided I was right and agreed with me. An entire department is mapping out teaching my special brand of quantum logic at Harvard this next semester. If I'm a clown, I'm a clown that the entire academic world recognizes as a ground breaking, new, logic-bomb clown who doesn't make people laugh, but rub their chins and go, "Hmmmm" in deep thought to gain intelligence.

When did combined age become a thing? Your age, combined with Jerry Reinsdorf and Jimmy Carter is over 200 years old. Who listens to a guy who represents a combined age that dates back before baseball was invented? Go find a one-year-old, then you'll have some credibility.

It's the catcher training system Chris Getz put in place. Great catchers with which pitchers have career years isn't good enough. We need elite catchers who know how to win!

What in the Tim Hill is goin' on here?

Yeah, but now Max Stassi is there to tell the other part of the Astro story, the years of total suck. Once Korey Lee has the full narrative, he will then know how to win.

My first choice was Foster Griffin. Royal 1st rounder in 2014, threw 120 quality innings in Japan last year. He just re-upped in Japan.

I'll go nuts and say they're going to resurrect Brady Aiken.

I think Maldonado will come to spring training, and will take all the catchers in the organization out to a steak dinner at some fine Scottsdale steak house. Maldonado will wear his world series ring, and over some prime ribs, he will teach those young catchers the secret of how to win. Michael Soroka will do the same thing with pitchers. These are two great acquisitions that will pay dividends over and over. Pedro Grifol will disguise himself as a waiter so that he can eavesdrop and check his own notes on winning. He will make the proper corrections, and will then know how to win.

I haven't refreshed Twitter in 2 days. Embrace the sublime.

Dudes were throwing Laz Rivera and Zach Remillard at the surging throngs, hoping for anything to hold off the inevitable. Chris Getz was their fate.

Chris Getz will envelop him in his love. They will all be turned into AI win-bots.

Yeah, but now he's teammates with Martin Maldenado, who will teach him how to win, and Chris Getz will lovingly develop him into the next A-Rod. The next P-Jong, if you will. Copyright that.

Andrew Vaughn was rushed by those who tried to hold off the Getz coup. Of course Getz receives credit for Burger. Getz personally coached him back to his form. Taught him how to hit dingers. I did mention Dunning multiple times. Are you actually calling 28th rounder, Laz Rivera a "flameout"? Thank you for the Easter egg to show me you're on my side. LOL. Micker Adolfo is actually in the victory column, because Keith Law described him as a gym curiosity that the White Sox taught how to hit. He just kept getting hurt. Hahn got head-faked into putting him on the 40-man a year or two too early. Fulmer and Colas were rushed before Getz could teach them to be great. He was so close... Hansen and Collins were gambles KW took. Many were calling Zach Collins a horrible pick the day he was taken. Even Chris Getz has his limits to that Chris Getz magic. DJ Gladney just kind of had a breakout season. Personally, I think there was so much chaos in the entire system, we really can't tell if Hostetler was a clown, or KW/JR were throwing darts in the draft war room. I can't believe Hostetler's team was that inept. If they were really taking lesser guys, their 2nd and 3rd rounders should have at least been turning into Tony Graffaninos and such. Utility infielders and bullpen guys. It's really weird how the Sox' 38th round has been more fruitful than their 2nd round, for, like, 50 years.

The Mets were in on Fedde. If Soroka hit free agency, he'd probably be making at least 3x his estimated $3 million he'll get in arbitration. They got two of the games most lauded catchers to teach winning to the entire pitching staff, virtually for free. They picked up a 20-HR, great defensive SS for peanuts. Shane Drohan will become a Shane Drohan name. I mean household. See what I mean? It's happening already! Get back to me at the parade. I'll take your apology in 20's.

Nobody's talking about savages, or how dickless Elias is for a day or so, now. You're welcome.

I think Hahn's done in baseball. Hahn making it back to GM would be the story of the century. He has too much of the stink of not failure, but of resignation to failure. He should have quit and sold cars until his contract ran out. I don't think Grifol makes it through 2024. I think he's being kept around as a mulligan by Getz. I don't know about Getz, but yes, Barfield is going places.

So what you're saying is that everybody who is proving to me beyond a reasonable doubt that all of baseball history has been leading up to the mastery of Chris Getz is wrong?!?!? Every single one of you has validated my own arguments. Nobody has made a move to disprove me.

So while he was still a player, Chris Gets had Kenny Williams installed as GM so that he could hire Getz as Director of Player Development, at which point it was too late to stop him. I don't know why you're not pitching this 5 season series to Netflix. I'm watching The OA right now, and this blows OA out of the water.

Or maybe the organization had a toxic VP making insane decisions and overruling everybody, which made the team fire him. It's almost like none of these stories were thoroughly reported.

He came up, and his great strike zone judgement was highly criticized. So in his 2nd season, he got aggressive, and led the league in strikeouts. He was moved to 3rd base, where he adjusted and put up 5.2 bWAR. Huge disappointment. Again, y'all are grasping at straws. Victor Robles was the #2 prospect in all of baseball, and got cut a month ago, so that proves my point.

What went wrong? Bumping Vaughn and Madrigal too quick? Moving first-basemen to the OF? Training and conditioning sh*tting the bed on multiple players? Sounds like the Director of Player Development is the most important job in the organization, if that's all his responsibility. He was probably "demoted" to GM. I'm not sure what you think the Player Development guy's job is. He doesn't run the entire organization. Everybody is saying he did a poor job, then they start naming things he had little to nothing to do with as evidence. When I point out actual players who graduated to the bigs, they were either too good, or too bad to count. I'm sure if I made an argument about Luis Robert, in about 6 posts, everyone would be screaming that Robert is a huge disappointment and shouldn't even be considered a "good" player.