WestEddy

Again, it's like you're pointing to the one fact that you've been able to wrap your head around for the last 4 months, and you're pretending it proves everything you've spouted all year. These guys are under contract. Getz had little else to do but assume he had a DH, 3B and CF relatively covered at least through the first 11 games. He certainly wasn't going to eat Eloy and Yoan's contracts and cut them because some dude on the internet would bray once they got injured. Not sure where you're going with this. There was no trade market for Yoan or Eloy.

And here's a picture of a sunrise!! Eat it, haters!! Still undefeated!!

Ho-hum. In other news, Cristian Mena pitched last Friday against the Sacramento River Cats. Nice outing. Went 6 innings, 81 pitches, and threw one pitch that touched 94. Had about half a dozen at 93.5. 91-92 the rest of the outing. Still no "jump to the mid-90's" some people talked about.

I'm not sure where you're going with this. Are you just picking up an easy win to dunk on everyone? "I knew the sun was coming up today!! All of you sun-deniers are stupid, and I'm smart!!!" It was not unreasonable to expect Robert to be relatively healthy this season. He just played 145 games last year. Eloy was moved to DH to expose him less. Both Eloy and Yoan expressed confidence in their offseason routines to play in most of our games. Nobody placed any bets. Nobody here was braying that the three would surely stay healthy all season. But it is silly to pretend that you had absolute knowledge that all three would be out 10 games into the season.

I kind of admire your style of chaos babbling. You're never arguing anything, specific, constantly complaining about anything, and wrapping it all into the same "should have signed stars" narrative that has no grounding in reality. The list of players you've listed out before would not have actually been a serious upgrade from what we had, or cannot even be said to have wanted to sign up for this situation. It was not unreasonable to rely on Robert to stay relatively healthy after playing a full baseball season. I'm not sure what better players (than Eloy or Yoan) you think were waiting for the Sox to call and sign them so we could just cut both. I'm pretty sure that Getz didn't ask Benintendi to be below replacement level, and didn't ask Vaughn to not hit. Benintendi was signed by the previous GM, and Vaughn was rushed to the bigs by the previous GM.

The point is to twist any situation into the narrative of "Getz is in over his head!! Every move sucked!!!" I suppose now that Robert, Eloy and Yoan are injured, the naysayers can go back to admitting that all 3 were developed during Getz's directorship, and those were development failures. LOL.

Nonsense? Having injury-prone players doesn't equate to "think they'd lose top 3 offensive players in the first 10 games".

Moncada and Robert were the two of the 3 highest OPSs in the lineup. Did you think Eloy was going to OPS .364 over a full season?

How is it failing to live up to the "help pitchers" line? The rotation has actually looked stable through 11 games, when the "organizational philosophy" here was that every starter would fail, to a man. Bullpen's been spotty, but one bad outing blows up a reliever's stats for a month.

What doesn't matter? The guys they want to gel and develop will continue to do so, and the guys who are probably ready will play in the bigs. WS2023 isn't mentioning an unprecedented loss of the 3 main offensive contributors.

Yes, converting Crochet to starting and Kopech to closing are abject failures. Iriarte and Thorpe are very good pitching prospects. And Steven Wilson might the 2nd best arm in our bullpen, right now. Yeah, all failures. Abject failures. LOL.

You seem to be conveniently omitting that the three guys who were supposed to buoy this offense, and make carrying the light-offense guys work - are all down in the first 10 days. And besides, Monty, Ramos and Quero are the guys they want to give time to develop. Not Lee, Sosa and Colas.

I'd stick with Kopech for the 2-inning save.

Shewmake is a AAA utility infielder. Jury's still out on Soroka and Lopez.

It's a bit early to declare the trade a failure. Let's wait to see how many innings Soroka covers and what Lopez looks like in a couple months.

That was Bummer's value. Please tell me about all these "2 top 100 prospects" packages that were out there for Aaron Bummer.

You just watched him get Josh Naylor to pop out.

I actually don't even mind Robert and Eloy being out. I'm happy to see Fletcher, Lee and Sosa getting any ML at-bats.

I still am that way, too. It's like getting pissed because Dunkin Donuts changed their ad campaign. It's a consumable commodity. Reinsdorf will die, and the kids will sell. Then another deplorable billionaire who wants to kill democracy will own the team, buy 6 players, then think they have the magic sword to destroy the union. You're rooting for the feces of billionaires.

It would be cool if they staggered the off days for the different levels.

At least Norfolk moved on. Now maybe some ERAs and WHIPs will regress to the mean.

I don't think a single person was like, "Yes, go get Paul Dejong, now!! Yes!!!!" You think "I get what he's trying to do" equals "Yes, I love this!!!"

He OPSed .736 in the first half, .426 in the 2nd.

Do you have answers for these, or am I supposed to guess? He's a clubhouse cancer? Then somebody else. Independent leagues will start up soon. Again, if you have players who will OPS under .500, I'm sure there's somebody in AAA on a minor league deal, somebody trying to come back in Gary, or Schaumburg, who can hit better than that. Some team will replace their own Paul DeJong with their hotshot rookie, and they'll trade their DeJong.