Taylor WARd

[tdawg87]

22 minutes ago, Taylor said:

 

He looks like he tailgates you with his brights on.

I don't mean driving.

[Docwaukee]

12 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

It embodied everything that was Jerry Dipoto: He was the "smartest guy in the room". Ward was quite the overreach for a 1st round pick, but JerBear thought he knew something everyone else didn't. Just like he did with Baldoquin.

Ward's current success has nothing to do with Dipoto. It was started when Eppler moved him off the catcher's position so Ward could focus on hitting.

this a million times over.  this was all development process.  He stopped catching in 2018 which is when his offense took off.  He still had a bit of long swing then but started making adjustments the major of which came in 2020.  Trouble with pitches up in the zone and inside.  The impressive thing to me is that he was able to adjust without losing ground in other areas.  In fact, his swing change may have actually improve those other areas like his oppo power.  He was actually always really good at going where with the pitch so to speak.  I was high on him because I thought he could hit.  It was clear he had plate discipline and cold hit for average but the big surprise to me is the power.  And to both sides of the plate.  That was unpredictable.  

[Taylor]

Thanks, Eppler!

[failos]

8 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Thanks, Eppler!

He did some good stuff. Lots of bad stuff, too

[Blarg]

43 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

He looks like he tailgates you with his brights on.

I don't mean driving.

He looks like he was part of the Astronomy club. 

[tdawg87]

He's wearing a Rays shirt.

Traitor.

[failos]

1 minute ago, Blarg said:

He looks like he was part of the Astronomy club. 

He still is with all those moon shots

[Lou]

Taylor Ward's OPS is 412 points higher than Vlad, Jr's.

[Docwaukee]

2 minutes ago, failos said:

He did some good stuff. Lots of bad stuff, too

pretty damn bad at FA's for the major league club.  It was his downfall.  Can't begin to sing his praises for rebuilding the minor league and development infrastructure.  Both domestic and international.  And the rapport he built.  Which means we have to give props to Perry for the major league scouting network he added.  Alex Tamin ladies and gents.  We're gonna lose him to a GM position real soon and it's gonna suck.  Hopefully we recognize his value and maybe even elevate Perry to VP of ops and keep Tamin as GM.  

And to sing Eppler's praises again, he built an infrastructure and Perry has been able to tweak it here and there instead of having to start over which is what Eppler was asked to do.  I'm not sure people appreciate the level of scorched earth that Dipoto left and what Eppler was tasked with doing.  There is no way they're where they're at without what he did.  

Do you feel at least halfway bullish about where this franchise is at on a go forward?  That's because of Billy Eppler and what he did.  Minasian has been pretty solid on adding whip cream and cherries to the sundae.  If they had doubled down on Jerry and his 'vision', we'd be looking at epic catastrophe.  

[Angelsjunky]

2 hours ago, Taylor said:

 

Posted without comment.

[failos]

1 hour ago, Dochalo said:

pretty damn bad at FA's for the major league club.  It was his downfall.  Can't begin to sing his praises for rebuilding the minor league and development infrastructure.  Both domestic and international.  And the rapport he built.  Which means we have to give props to Perry for the major league scouting network he added.  Alex Tamin ladies and gents.  We're gonna lose him to a GM position real soon and it's gonna suck.  Hopefully we recognize his value and maybe even elevate Perry to VP of ops and keep Tamin as GM.  

And to sing Eppler's praises again, he built an infrastructure and Perry has been able to tweak it here and there instead of having to start over which is what Eppler was asked to do.  I'm not sure people appreciate the level of scorched earth that Dipoto left and what Eppler was tasked with doing.  There is no way they're where they're at without what he did.  

Do you feel at least halfway bullish about where this franchise is at on a go forward?  That's because of Billy Eppler and what he did.  Minasian has been pretty solid on adding whip cream and cherries to the sundae.  If they had doubled down on Jerry and his 'vision', we'd be looking at epic catastrophe.  

Agreed.

Eppler is great at forming relationships—he did everything right when it came to signing Ohtani.
 

I also think that’s a big reason WMA signed him as an agent before he jumped to the Mets

[Taylor]

7 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Posted without comment.

From my wife's senior yearbook.

[ten ocho recon scout]

6 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

Lifetime called me Inside Bitch.  I loled.

Lol. I like that because it meant he was pissed, and had.... to do... something.

[ten ocho recon scout]

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

 

He looks like an Island Boy (on the right at least).

[ten ocho recon scout]

38 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Posted without comment.

Lock it up

[ten ocho recon scout]

Since he's batting leadoff, what about Taylor Scored?

 

(Im just trying to steal @Taylors thunder)

[Inside Pitch]

28 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

He looks like an Island Boy (on the right at least).

Thats cold...  also HILARIOUS...

[tdawg87]

1 hour ago, Angelsjunky said:

Posted without comment.

Fuck. I knew he looked like someone from a movie but couldn't remember.

Well done, AJ. Well done.

[Angelsjunky]

Here's a big surprise: I think that guy now works at Walmart, or he did as of 2012 according to Wikipedia.

[tdawg87]

2 minutes ago, Angelsjunky said:

Here's a big surprise: I think that guy now works at Walmart, or he did as of 2012 according to Wikipedia.

I mean, of course he did.

[HeavenlyHalos]

7 hours ago, Dochalo said:

pretty damn bad at FA's for the major league club.  It was his downfall.  Can't begin to sing his praises for rebuilding the minor league and development infrastructure.  Both domestic and international.  And the rapport he built.  Which means we have to give props to Perry for the major league scouting network he added.  Alex Tamin ladies and gents.  We're gonna lose him to a GM position real soon and it's gonna suck.  Hopefully we recognize his value and maybe even elevate Perry to VP of ops and keep Tamin as GM.  

And to sing Eppler's praises again, he built an infrastructure and Perry has been able to tweak it here and there instead of having to start over which is what Eppler was asked to do.  I'm not sure people appreciate the level of scorched earth that Dipoto left and what Eppler was tasked with doing.  There is no way they're where they're at without what he did.  

Do you feel at least halfway bullish about where this franchise is at on a go forward?  That's because of Billy Eppler and what he did.  Minasian has been pretty solid on adding whip cream and cherries to the sundae.  If they had doubled down on Jerry and his 'vision', we'd be looking at epic catastrophe.  

This. I really hope we are considering something like this.

[Warfarin]

12 minutes ago, HeavenlyHalos said:

This. I really hope we are considering something like this.

I'm hoping Tamin will fly under the radar for now and that we can promote him / restructure the front office before another team is tempted to hire him.

That said, if Tamin finds his way onto other teams' radars, it likely is because we had a fantastic year.  That's the cost of success - other teams start trying to poach your front office. 

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Warfarin said:

I'm hoping Tamin will fly under the radar for now and that we can promote him / restructure the front office before another team is tempted to hire him.

That said, if Tamin finds his way onto other teams' radars, it likely is because we had a fantastic year.  That's the cost of success - other teams start trying to poach your front office. 

@Dochalo really needs to stop talking about him.

[Warfarin]

3 minutes ago, Lou said:

@Dochalo really needs to stop talking about him.

Agreed!

I do think Tamin's roots are in So Cal though, so perhaps that will increase the likelihood he'd stay, especially if we elevate Minasian to PBO and Tamin to GM.

[Lou]

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