Jose Abreu

But he's a talent evaluator. Not a coach. Just doesn't make sense to me

I still find it so weird that Capra went from the top farm guy to third base coach. Like, how are those roles in any way related? How is he qualified for that?

Giolito took so long on that DP turn... gave Yoan no shot to get Altuve at first

A Moncada... B, not so sure

Anderson

Shields was having a very good season aside from one bad start (2 IP, 10 R) which inflated his stats. He had a 3.06 ERA outside of that one start.

Some of your blame for Shields could also be placed on Padres GM AJ Preller. He hid some of Shields' medical info from us at the time of the trade. For whatever reason, the MLB investigation concluded without giving us the option to undo the trade.

It's weird because he's actually a pretty good poster for the most part. Just such an odd hatred for Abreu that clearly extends beyond his performance.

Yeah, message board posters are much more reliable

I agree with the premise of the article but that was really poorly written at some points.

Tyler Clippard too

Bregman is so good

If Abreu goes to the DL I really don't know who would represent us at the ASG. Anderson is the most logical but SS is stacked in the AL. Garcia doesn't have enough games. Might have to be one of Soria/Fry

Again, that's not how it works. Every first basemen is automatically at a negative number of runs due to the Fangraphs positional adjustment. Abreu is not 15-20 runs below the average first baseman defensively. The real number, as of now, is about 4.

You can put down the 2005 season as a massive failure too. Utterly awful season for us.

Meh, he deserved it last year and didn't make it so now he's square.

wow two

That was one of my favorite Yoan ABs this year. Excellent patience and got a nice single out of it

Can't even blame our hitters for these ABs. Morton is just that good

Angel Hernandez is the worst (for both teams, but still)

https://chicago.suntimes.com/?post_type=cst_article&p=1213650

Morton is nasty

You really think this is a bad thing? Those trades were wins for us, or washes at worse.

Kyle Tucker's MLB debut

JOSE ABREU