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Chris Getz's idea of a rebuild is to get older at every step of the way. Truly big brain.

Ortega was hitting .241 in Charlotte. Just keep Pillar dear lord, if only for his defense. The OF defense is going to be all-time bad. Getz is flailing like a dying fish.

lol even Merk is joining in on the fun

Something something budget something something saddled with bad prospects something something it's not his fault

Yeah - the annoying part is they did have those prospects. Moncada was coming off bad debut, but still had hype. Eloy had hype, and everyone bought into the Robert hype. But Tatis obviously makes everything better. Or just signing Machado/Harper. Or both, cause they could have. Jerry being a cheap fucker is how this was doomed to fail.

Lmao no he didn't. Tatis was a highly ranked prospect, while the Sox had a cabinet of highly ranked prospect. He signed with them because the Sox were trying to haggle him on a contract and then San Diego was like "$300M guaranteed" so he signed with them.

Tray would filibuster the debates about a new stadium for months on end, never leaving the podium.

Pedro is so. fucking. stupid.

While is AA --> AAA adjustment period wasn't as long as it was the prior levels, Sosa's MO was always: Move up a level, struggle hard, figure it out and start crushing. Pedro's coaching sucks, so he basically gets called up and never gets to work his way out of the struggle step. Then he goes down.

Getz would have taken Joe Alt at #1 and JJ McCarthy at #9

he knew

It was destiny once Rome said his favorite player was Hester

All roads (should) lead to ROme

Penix!

Someone pls take McCarthy

Unleash the Chappy

Yeah, Eloy and Moncada were hurt last year, so they should be a net zero. Losing Cease hurts, obviously. And Robert. But Getz decided to keep the med staff (and a lot of minor league coaches). But Chris "Baseball Man" Getz completely overturned the pitching staff from OD last year (Kopech and Clevinger aside) and they're hot garbage. I fail to see why Brebbia deserved $4M (I know someone is about to blabber about Hahn, but tough s%*#, he shouldn't make the same mistakes), Maldonado getting $4M, or his other worthless pack-the-roster moves. He's burning cash on dog s%*#, like Hahn did, dumping prospects for dogshit, and didn't improve in defense like he boasted he would. And if he takes until next year to make a change, then there was truly no point to hire him over an actual baseball executive. He also decided to get a 29-year-old reliever for Cease. If Wilson isn't dominant, then they missed out on getting something else in the Cease trade.

Played for Grifol in KC, plays FASTs

Watching the end of the game last night my wife asked why they were so bad and I told her it was a combo of the owner being cheap, but the nepo-GM having a lot of hubris as he stepped into his new role assuming he could build a roster of a bunch of players that played like him, which was not a very good player.

Yeah, as a former Hahn apologist it's ridiculous to hear it get repeated. The man had two skills (in my opinion), which was teardowns and extending young players. But he couldn't develop players, sign good free agents, or trade for veterans without devastating the farm system in some stupid manner.

Yes, this excuse was used for Rick Hahn and the general response was that if it was so bad, he could just have not taken the job. GMs with tighter leashes were able to build rosters that weren't on track to be the worst team in major league history.

As someone who loves Duke Ellis, it'd be insane to have him skip AAA for anything short of having him as an emergency bench guy. The team needs to let all of their prospects go up through the normal cycles.

Can't make Chris Getz's premiere free agent hitter sit out games, can we?

I still like Jake Burger and now the thread has made me sad. Go back to eviscerating Maldonado!