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He's panicking. He has a plan, but as soon as he got hit in the mouth he started flailing for anything and everything. What he did over the winter made sense if he was trying not to rush people, but him releasing prospects to sign flotsam only to release them a week later is some OOTP crap. He really is acting like he isn't capable of doing this job.

If it was 3 weeks, there was no point in bringing them in the 1st place.

Right. The worst team in baseball, but he is being dramatic. He's already shoving out guys he signed after only 3 weeks.

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What is not good at? Oh, right.

Nice start.

The light at the end of the tunnel... is a freight train.

Ummm, yeah.

First rule of Team Meetings. We don't talk about Team Meetings.

The healthiest Crochet is like the healthiest ILoy. It is typically a temporary situation which will soon lead to the inevitable. I don't see a need to rush it along.

I swear it is just a way to save money. One less day with another extra player on the roster, versus the guy from the IL who is getting paid no matter what.

To be fair I literally can't think of another pitcher being asked to go from essentially no innings base at all to a starters load over the course of a current season. Even a guy like Chris Sale or Jose Quintana had something like 70 or 80 innings in previous seasons, while Crochet comes no where close to it. The thinking is by extending him so quickly, you increase the risk of injuries in the shorter term. Maybe 70 pitch outings while extending up to say 100-120 innings that way are better than doing it in 3 months while pushing past 90 pitches to 100. If you save an inning or two with shorter starts now, it allows him to work more starts over the course of the season to get to his innings peak for the year, instead of being shut down sooner, or worse hurt from fatigue.

Not to mention we still have to roster Clevinger and eventually Pham. How many more Latin players to we have to axe?

Which means another DFA?

So Stassi is now out until basically June? Wild.

He has a better history of health in general, but that's not the worst call. I mean in general this is my feeling. If you are going to go through this process you should be acquiring as much potential talent as possible for the 4 to 6 years out range, with as many high ceilings as possible. Sure Eder could bust. Lots of prospects do, especially pitching ones, and ones post injury. To me this is the same idea as taking a Grant Taylor in the 2nd round a couple of years ago. It is the same story as Lucas Giolito or many others who had the same thing happen. You know you won't get his best for a period of time, maybe a year or two. But his ceiling is so much higher that it is worth the chance. This isn't a promise that Eder will be a star player. This is a reduced price shot at a front line lefty starter who has some dents in him, versus a potential front line lefty starter with no scratches or dents who costs a LOT more than Jake Burger. The fact he has struggled a bit post injuries isn't that odd, or even a real surprise. People struggle with stuff and conditioning their first year past TJS. Top that off with a broken pushoff foot before he even got back from TJS, and it doesn't seem crazy that he has struggled some. That's also not to say he won't fail either. He could well fail. We could have bought damaged goods that never get fixed. But it was a trade that makes sense to try no matter what the results are for a team that is BEGGING for future talent.

I can't think of many things worth less in this world than Mike North's opinion.`

Or that he was feeding people a line of crap.

I still don't know why people like to Jerry, Chris, and Pedro and believe them. You'd find more truth at a [insert offending politician name here] rally.

He has pitched a grand total of 65 innings since his return. This is no where near back from TJS. That is about 2 months worth of work.