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People were so excited to get out in front of the Moncada sucks train to feel smart should he have always been meh. I’ll be the first to admit I was way down on giolito, and was only hoping for a competent major leaguer, but I never got the quitting on Moncada.

At least yonder Alonso didn’t cost some middle class dude his job lol

That was so damn easy

He’s gonna hit 95 homeruns in two months

It’s times like these that I really appreciate the double entendre of Bust

He looks thrilled to be taking this picture lol

This is incredibly presumptive

Have to keep fatigue in mind, but I still am thinking were about to see cartoon numbers.

To an extent your right, but Mercedes was a nobody until like 5 seconds ago, and probably is a nobody anyway.

Idk, Gio has been getting plenty of press.

The Kopech v Cease is interesting. I see them as very similar guys where one has the real big 1 pitch and the other has a more sound arsenal off the bat, and both struggle to consistently through strikes. No way I'd be willing to say Kopech is a considerably better prospect than Cease at this point.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s yonder’d Soon

Collins and Detwiler would be the most obvious choices, but I honestly have no idea what the plan is with Collins and Detwiler probably earned himself another start or three. I for one would like to see if they stumbled into a Rich Hill situation.

I would imagine minimizing the wire being in peoples sight was a consideration. That's why I was bigger on just going to the poles rather than like an extra 30 feet or something. It's almost certainly overkill from a safety perspective, but I think it's better from a viewing perspective. The most annoying seats (rather the only annoying seats) are the ones right on the edge and 108 and whatever the other corner is have the pole in their way anyway.

I’d rather it take up my whole field of vision than part of it tbh. Easier to tune out that way.

Then you're no Ron lol

So what did he do to make you dislike him on a personal level

The best hitter on the team is very clearly Moncada right now. Followed very closely by McCann, but I wouldn’t expect that to continue.

Some view the acquisition of Reed as an indictment of Collins

This was what I felt was the only really valid concern, so good to see that they addressed it.

I knew there'd be some consternation about Collins, but man this is something.

Obviously if you guarantee production, I'd be in. But you can't. I don't dislike Jose and I appreciate the tiny bit of sanity he's provided over the last 5 and half years, but the team needs to be careful in assessing this situation and shouldn't be handing out, idk, 40 million dollars for feels. If Moncada and Jimenez and whoever else can't survive their friends leaving the team, assuming it's on good enough terms, they're in trouble.

The fact that he's coming off a shoulder surgery as well has to increase that number no?

Cease should be full go by next year, at least he should be expected to be able to go 180. I would guess kopech gets skipped here and there and gets pulled early if the team scores a bunch of runs.

Thinking emotionally like this is how you end up trading away Gleyber Torres and Eloy Jimenez instead of Kyle Schwarber.