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slam incoming

This game is over if JROD gets up with the sacks packed with seamen

Why, if he does hit it will be weak contact at someone

s%*# I wish it was 95 where I am. It was 108 the other day!

Yes. Our manager is a moron.

Im ok with this

slam incoming

This game is over if JROD comes up with the sacks packed with seamen

For a team thats on pace to lose 100 games, there is no reason to keep Shaw over Honeywell in my opinion.

Finished 81-81 last season and have been horrible all season in their "contention window". Nothing has happened in the past 24 days that is any worse than the past 24 months.

I believe that someone had to twist JR's arm to do this, something happened. If not, this would have been done months ago. You can't let these morons run your draft and your trade deadline and then fire them all a month later. This season was washed a long time ago, I don't believe JR woke up yesterday and was like "gee, were pretty bad maybe its time to make a change?" We've been really bad since April.

If Grifol returns and Getz is GM this news means nothing.

The A’s have 3 division titles and 6 playoff appearances since 2012 so whatever they’re doing is better than us.

It’s so comical they think they can compete next year. Are they going to sign 4 starting pitchers lol

Yeah people need to get over it, he has nowhere to play here because of other stupid extensions and this team blows anyways.

There’s nothing anyone could have said to make me believe this was a 95-100 loss team going into the season. This is truly an abomination of a season, just awful.

We basically gave him away for free and they got a World Series

I think the disconnect is I am only talking about what he has done with the Marlins, not overall. His ISO is .156 with the Marlins, I don't look at it as .292 like you said above. Again, only talking about the difference between what he was doing with the Sox and what he is now doing with the Marlins. As it has been said many times, by all of us, its a very small sample size and a lot can change quickly.

I did say plummet, because they have. I was just saying why do you keep putting those words in "air quotes" like it isn't true. And again, I want to point out I am not saying hes lost all his power, hes only played a handful of games with the Marlins. Its just what has happened right now since the trade. The ISO, HR, and Fly Ball percentages are way down. This could be because the Marlins told him to stop selling out for home runs though. White Sox Marlins ISO 0.313 0.156 BABIP 0.225 0.382 HR% 7.7 2.0 SO% 31.6 20.0 BB% 6.8 6.0 EV 92.4 90.4 Hard Hit 50.8 48.6 Fly Ball 25.8 17.1

Pedro needs to go, but he doesn't have control of the roster. Hes playing the guys he has been given. Rick Hahn or whoever you believe is running the show has the power to focus on development the rest of the year, yet they still are rostering these guys. Grandal and Elvis should have been DFA two weeks ago. If Elvis is playing good right now, then let him go to maybe sign on somewhere to help with a playoff push. He is useless here.

There is a lot of missing context here. All we know is MB sent Loria some explicit text messages after being traded to Toronto. What if they told MB they were going to trade him and he said "OK, can you please not trade me somewhere where my dogs are banned?" and they said "No problem." and then did it anyways. We don't know all the details, other than the end result.

His exit velocity is lower with the marlins than it was with the Sox. I don’t get your point. All his power metrics are down since the trade, why do you keep saying “power” it’s fact not opinion.

They don't even need to spend at the levels of big market teams. A $150ish million payroll with the correct resources added to scouting and development would run this division.

That slash line doesn't show how his power metrics have seemingly plummeted since the trade. Like you said, its early.

I get its how free agency works, I just don't know how any spending conscious organization can look at a player and see a non elite defender, a non elite bat, and decide that's the guy we want to invest $15 million per year to.