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Trout's already had at least one other slump like this. He will be fine once he adjusts.

Dazed and Confused? I mean there is a party at the moon tower.

Dazed and Confused? I mean there is a party at the moon tower.

Dazed and Confused? I mean there is a party at the moon tower.

Jo Adell looked like a big leaguer there. Dude was working every righty low and away with that two seamer and cutter. Adell went up there looking to drive a ball to right and did it.

Dazed and Confused? I mean there is a party at the moon tower.

I think it's weird but cool that Dana Delany just comes over to your place to watch movies.

Honestly, with this feeling like a lost cause of a season already I'm ok with Adell getting worked over in his first shot at regular playing time. Obviously it sucks for him and the team, and in an ideal world he'd be going through a lot of this development in AAA. But I'm all for him playing in real games and hopefully working through these challenges without it eroding his confidence too much. Hopefully the vets are telling him it's a hard adjustment for everyone and to just keep his head up and put in the work.
 

Honestly, with this feeling like a lost cause of a season already I'm ok with Adell getting worked over in his first shot at regular playing time. Obviously it sucks for him and the team, and in an ideal world he'd be going through a lot of this development in AAA. But I'm all for him playing in real games and hopefully working through these challenges without it eroding his confidence too much. Hopefully the vets are telling him it's a hard adjustment for everyone and to just keep his head up and put in the work.
 

I think it's weird but cool that Dana Delany just comes over to your place to watch movies.

A bunch of white guys saying there's no systemic racism is absolutely on brand for this forum.

Young aspiring photographer experiences the development of a slum and a gang war in 60s-80s Rio de Janeiro.

Young aspiring photographer experiences the development of a slum and a gang war in 60s-80s Rio de Janeiro.

This is what happens when your approach to pitching for 5+ years is “Screw it, we’ll figure something out.”

Yep. Firm agree.

I’m not typically one for hyperbole, but this is freaking embarrassing.

Ya I’m with you on that. My point is this team didn’t acquire any arm worth a shit this offseason except Bundy who won’t be turning this club around either. It was truly a pathetic offseason. Something is severely wrong with this team’s scouting and signing ability when it comes to pitching. 

I’m not typically one for hyperbole, but this is freaking embarrassing.

I’m not typically one for hyperbole, but this is freaking embarrassing.

Young aspiring photographer experiences the development of a slum and a gang war in 60s-80s Rio de Janeiro.

I mean I saw their plan, and to be fair it has been derailed by injury and death. They felt they had two good number twos in Heaney and Scaggs. Then Canning and Sandoval coming up with a large ceiling. And finally, Ohtani was the big signing of the ace-type pitcher. The problem is that all of these guys are over-rated. Heaney and Scaggs were both 4-5 guys at best with as many bad days as good. Canning and Sandoval are probably 3-5 guys at best and as said Ohtani cant stay healthy. The people evaluating talent just plain suck.

The organization has kinda screwed up and/or been unlucky in pretty much every avenue a team can use to build a staff. We haven't developed a top level SP (think major league 1/2) starter in quite a while, which either means we've been incredibly unlucky with drafting/international pickups, or we're just crap at developing pitchers, or a combination of the two. We've also been bad/unlucky with signing/trading for big name guys, which is either because the big names just don't want to play here or our front office couldn't swing the moves. So now we're left with trying to find the proverbial "clean peanut" every year, which is really the hardest way to build a staff. It just takes some ridiculously good scouting and coaching, plus good injury luck. A couple teams have managed to do well with that in the past (it seems like the Cardinals have been consistently successful with that sort of thing for like 25 years now), but it's by far and away more difficult than doing it through the draft/development or sign/trade method. Basically we've been relying on the third best option for building a staff for several years now, and we're crap at that approach too.

The organization has kinda screwed up and/or been unlucky in pretty much every avenue a team can use to build a staff. We haven't developed a top level SP (think major league 1/2) starter in quite a while, which either means we've been incredibly unlucky with drafting/international pickups, or we're just crap at developing pitchers, or a combination of the two. We've also been bad/unlucky with signing/trading for big name guys, which is either because the big names just don't want to play here or our front office couldn't swing the moves. So now we're left with trying to find the proverbial "clean peanut" every year, which is really the hardest way to build a staff. It just takes some ridiculously good scouting and coaching, plus good injury luck. A couple teams have managed to do well with that in the past (it seems like the Cardinals have been consistently successful with that sort of thing for like 25 years now), but it's by far and away more difficult than doing it through the draft/development or sign/trade method. Basically we've been relying on the third best option for building a staff for several years now, and we're crap at that approach too.

That's a fair point, and I'd have to assume there was some sort of yelling coming from the dugout after that second one behind his head. If there wasn't, that suggests a bit of a problem for sure. As for Maddon not saying something... I mean maybe he actually thought it wasn't on purpose? Still though, you've gotta say something like it's unacceptable for a guy to be up around his head, that has no place in the game, etc...

That would definitely make them think twice about throwing at one of our guys again.