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A rebuilding NL club wanting a vet “presence” makes sense.

I do too. Just a gut feeling. What it means for who fills the other spots, that I can’t tell.

I don't disagree, just reading the tea leaves. Grifol sure hasn't sung Leury's praises this spring, but I could be reading too much into it. We shall see. I'll be surprised if they actually do cut him.

It sure does seem like he is pushing to cut ties with Leury behind the scenes.

THANK YOU Very well said and really nails it. Yes Moncada needs to be better offensively. We know it is in there somewhere. If his WBC performance is an indicator of anything, I think he has a monster year. Will it be enough for some? Probably not, but honestly who cares any more. Some dudes are just gonna hate because of the music video, or his rumored party life off the field. Or that he doesn’t put on enough of a tough guy face when dealing with pain on the field. None of that s%*# is really relevant. If Mondada performs like we all know he is capable, his play will drown out the childish noise. Or at least that is my hope.

A little Bogata in your Burgcata?

I will go out on a limb and opine that the posters champing for Burger at 3rd and or moving Moncada off 3rd do so for other than rational baseball reasons. Both the eye test and the stats say that Moncada is quite good defensively, and that Burger isn’t just bad, he is abysmal at the hot corner. We also don’t know if Burger’s bat or body hold up over a whole season at 3rd. So the idea espoused by and argued for vehemently by a select few is not based in anything substantive or provable in the data. It is both farcical and fantastical. If Moncada is not the answer at 3rd, Jake Burger sure as hell isn’t either.

Burgcata

I haven’t seen much of him but he doesn’t look like a lumbering oaf that can’t pass for a LF.

9 days feels like an eternity between Joe Kelly meltdowns

Whatever floats your boat?

Also, its 2023, how do you not have an ad blocker??

Be afraid...

If Romy or Colás can play a passable CF to spell Robert, I could see Billy making it as a defensive replacement/pinch running 4th OF, maybe. I sure don't want him starting and getting 4 ABs though.

More evidence that it's bye bye Leury? IDK.

yeah, uh, Monada's salary is as irrelevant as your hot takes. I'm sorry, I just can't take you seriously.

4-6-3!