The hot take brigade desperately needed some new material.
Maybe Zack Collins will be able to provide it.
You can‘t say waste of a top 10 pick with a straight face in baseball when you check how much career WAR the average first rounder outside the top 3-5 provides.
Limited myself to the last decade
C Ramon Castro - probably my favorite backup catcher ever
1B Conor Gillaspie - cromulent
2B Jayson Nix - A guy who murders lefties and plays the middle infield? Sign me up
3B Brent Morel - I thought he was going to be a star after hitting like 8 homers one September
SS Brett Lilllibridge - That one year was incredile
CF Alejandro De Aza - He was awesome when he got here but got progressively worse
Then it‘s kinda difficult:
Washed up Juan Pierre - Eh.
Dewayne Wise - He did make that one catch I guess
Writing off Rutherford after struggling in his first stint in AA despite him being 1.7 years younger than league average was always dumb and a. stupid reactionary hot take.
He has shown good on base skills in Charlotte this year and throughout his minor league career.
He also has shown the ability to hit a baseball really fucking hard.
What does someone like Charlie Tilson bring to the table offensively? Or Cordell?
On one hand Yonder was dealt a tough hand here. He was seen as the embodiment of the failure to sign Machado.
On the other hand, I would let 20k people boo me 3 hours straight for less than 9mil.
As far as road trips go, having to go to Wrigley, to Arlington against a Texas team that has some dark magic going on right now to be 8 games over and to Fenway and come away 3-5 is not the worst thing in the world.
Hoping that bad things happen to the Sox just that you can win an online messageboard argument is the saddest shit ever.
You must be a miserable and petty man.