Jerksticks

He hasn’t been doing too well lately but man he sure has been the victim of some shoddy umpiring during that stretch. I don’t see what the big deal is. A decent hot streak puts him well over 2 fWAR at the break. Would that be so bad?

Well then maybe we should just sign 9 .300/30/100 players on short one year deals and use our prospects to push them out as they develop. Once Gavin Sheets develops into his natural .330/50/150 in two years, he will be able to replace Abreu’s middling .300/30/100. Same for all positions. Once Robert starts popping off .350/45/125s in a year or two, we can easily trade the .300/30/100 STOPGAP center fielder we signed for a below market one year deal. Maybe get a top 150 prospect if we’re lucky, but probably not because those guys are everywhere. Almost every player is flawed somehow man.

I’m of the opinion that this is not a big deal at all. Clearly people are going to be passionate about their 2018 vote. Well they have tons of time to make sure they are set up correctly. This will impact zero people passionate about voting this fall. AKA the blue wave. I think you should have to bring your ID, recent mail, and SSN on the holiday election day and then you can vote. Isn’t it that simple. Prove you are a citizen, prove where you live, and use the SSN and photo ID to ensure no fraud. One vote in one county.

I bet Reylo can hit 100. 97 is not his max by any means.

Fuckkk. I hope he’s awesome but he could end up flaming out as one of the worst picks ever taken in any draft in any sport in the history of earth competitions

Kelenic

Hoping for a Kleenex outa nowhere

New Shields is a beast. Team has to be fired up after that. 5/150 extension?

I know how it works, I’m just saying getting impact every day vs every 5 days is something worth considering heavily if you are in the enviable position of having your choice between the best hitter and the best pitcher.

Yea it makes sense for sure. I guess I’m just rooting for a curveball draft day where Mize falls to us.

I don’t understand why Mize is almost consensus 1. I guess taking a pitcher #1 seems like you’re giving away the chance of 4WAR every day for 4WAR every 5th day. If I had the first pick every year I think i’d always take the best position player. 2nd pick is a whole different story. Just not sold on Detroit going pitcher with the state of their rebuild.

Yea it’s really odd. TA is a pretty electric SS. He can make all the plays. This is a good thing.

Platoon him for sure

A year ago, one could argue 8/9 should have been in AAA!

Yes they are all pieces of shit playing “Gotcha!”.

I’ve always been the same way but check this out: if we stack up the losses now we can root for more victories when Kopech n Eloy come up later!

I’m wondering what it takes for him to pass Yrizarri. Can’t promote yrizarri to Bham right? Laz is demolishing low A.

It’s hard to imagine anybody being worse than Engel but Tilson might just be that guy.

Anybody else kinda feel like we don’t need to acquire any more moderate prospects? We already don’t have room for all our guys to play down there in the outfield and we got another top class about to come in, and likely ANOTHER top class after that. Abreu mashes for us and until Gavin Sheets becomes interesting I think we need The Brew.

Can we all just let the mega superstar outfielder be a mega superstar outfielder for us for the next 6+ years? He’s not Kyle Schwarber out there.

I do like the idea of one big entrance, metal detector and a SEAL team. Nobody is getting through that with a pistol.

He’s our boy. He stays.

I mean it wouldn’t be the worst thing for us as fans. I’ve personally never set money on fire but maybe Jerry would get off on that, he’s getting older.

I agree with all of this except for the Andy Gonzalez part. I’ll never forget that 10 or so pitch AB against Zumaya. Anybody else remember that?

Yes it does man. Opinion is free. Look at CNN or Fox. It’s full of opinion now. They report the news but you can definitely detect the approving or disapproving tone in every article. Everyone has to admit that. Most CNN articles will report what Washington is doing and hint at why it sucks. Most Fox News articles will report what Washington is doing and hint why it is good. Always been that way depending on control but now you can definitely detect more fervent agenda. So to say these crazy left and right wing outlets are more damaging or unacceptable brings up the issue of where to draw the line. Some opinion is acceptable but some isn’t? Since it’s all opinion now how can you even draw a line? Trump wishing the news would go away is fascism. The MSM suppressing conservative thought is fascism. Colleges throwing out conservative speakers is fascism. It’s all fascism. And your suggestion is the definition of fascism for sure, and very condescending to the human brain in general. People can say whatever they want no matter what, that’s America. Just because CNN & Fox have billions of dollars behind them, their opinions don’t cross this invisible line of trying to twist the reader’s mind? Jim Acosta has an agenda and the biggest of platforms. Isn’t that kinda sick when you think about it?