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Look at what happens to a fanbase when the team stinks for a decade.  It’s an ugly time.

“Not landing a high impact player through trade or free agency really shouldn’t be seen as treading water because the team will be significantly better with full seasons from Rendon and Trout.”

14 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Fixed

This could be the dumbest thing you have ever posted.

4 hours ago, Jeremiah said:

I don’t understand the fascination with Bauer. He’s made, according to Spotrac, over $100M in career earnings. That includes $23M last year when he didn’t even play. He’s not suffering. I imagine many of the people championing Bauer’s cause would agree that the world doesn’t owe you a living, right? They would also likely agree that a private employer can contract (or not) with whomever they choose, right? MLB and its member clubs have decided they don’t want to work with him any longer. It would seem they are well within their rights to do so. Otherwise the MLBPA and his agent would have filed a grievance ages ago.

Maybe some people have opinions about what’s right and wrong absent a look at how much money some has?

1 hour ago, Taylor said:

It's a Family Guy clip. Lighten up, Francis.

You forget to tell him this is a Wendy’s.  You are off your game.

9 hours ago, jsnpritchett said:

...yet they're not signing him, which tells you that there are other factors that outweigh what teams think he can contribute on the field. Call it cancel culture if you want, but you cannot force a team to sign a player. Period. 

 

Isn’t it just as believable that the commissioner’s office has somewhat made it perfectly clear to the teams that it will be very “frowned upon” if they sign him?  It would be pretty believable to me that Bauer really, really pissed off the commissioner somehow along the way and the commissioner (human) has a serious personal grudge.

Then the individual clubs analysis is comparing how much he will help their pitching staff versus the impact of their signing decision has on that club’s relationship with the commissioner’s office.

I am not saying this IS the case.  We don’t know.  Just saying if we are going ask what is hard to believe and what is not hard to believe. . .  Then it isn’t hard to believe the commissioner has made his wishes clear and teams are staying in line.

I would like to see a lawsuit filed by Bauer against MLB.  At least it would suss this all out.

Maybe. . .
a). we find out some additional specific stuff about Bauer that justifies him being basically blackballed.

Or. . .

b). maybe we find out that, regardless of him being set up and extorted, MLB just doesn’t feel like dealing with the PR project that would go along with having him sign with a team.  Which you can at least understand but then you gotta settle up with guy.  If this is the case, he shouldn’t be tossed aside out of PR convenience to MLB.

With either outcome, at least it would be resolved.

Very oddly, I really don’t even care about this entire story.  I have actually tried to understand exactly why I don’t care.

All I can come up with is there seem to be exactly opposing forces in my interest of what I hope is true.  Maybe they just cancel each other out, leaving me in an apathetic shrug.

Ohtani was my favorite contemporary Angel (Bobby Grich), so I hope he is entirely innocent and continues to have a significant legacy.

Yet, he now IS a Dodger.  And obviously fuck the Dodgers.  So in that way, I hope this scandal really screws the Dodgers somehow.

So I am so stuck in purgatory, that I find myself not really even interested in the details.

It’s a weird, weird story top to bottom.

OHoppe can’t play every day.  I get it.  But Thaiss is hard for me to watch.  I actually like that he seems to be a scrapper, but I don’t like his game offensively or defensively.

2 hours ago, samwum said:

 

• 3 failed efforts to add frontline SP in Syndergaard, Anderson, Giolito
• Long list of awful relief pitching signings
• Bad extensions for Stassi and Fletcher, who weren't even free agents at the time
• Consistently acquiring players who predictably regressed after previously outperforming their peripheral and advanced stats or coming off career outlier seasons -- like Tyler Anderson, Ryan Tepera, Aaron Loup, Lucas Giolito
• Usage of most players in the league multiple times due to having to shuffle through wildly incompetent depth signings like Kurt Suzuki, Juan Lagares, Tyler Wade, etc.
• Failed to adequately apply platoons to mitigate production drop off when players sustained injuries
• Lost Ohtani
• Coaching staff was a shitshow during Ohtani competitive window
• Rushed Silseth, Bachman, O'Hoppe, and Neto's development and all suffered significant injuries
• Had public falling out with one of the most successful and well respected managers of the recent era
• Flip-flopping organizational values year-in and year-out
  • One year he hires driveline guys and emphasizes stuff+, the next he gets rid of them and emphasizes fastballs and throwing strikes
  • One year he gives Raisel Iglesias one of the richest RP contracts of all time, the next he trades him for nothing in a contract dump 
  • One year he hires Phil Nevin with no managerial experience to be Ray Montgomery's analytics puppet, the next he hires the oldest manager in the league

At this point Minasian's only redeeming quality has been moderate success in the draft -- by drafting the consensus most "pro-ready" collegiate players and rushing through the system. Is this really some sort of rocket science strategy that another GM couldn't replicate?

 

At this point I am at a total loss for why this guy is still here. Drafting Zach Neto and trading Marsh (a top 10 CF in the league) for Logan O'Hoppe do not compensate for the overwhelming incompetence this guy has demonstrated the past 3 years. I'll be surprised if he makes it through July.

 

 

 

I would congratulate you on being so comprehensive but you failed to cite/criticize his BMI.

40 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

The bigger point I'm making, which I feel you're ignoring, is we are unnecessarily deep in the OF resulting with JA on the bench, and not a lot of options at 1B if Nolan struggles. 

It's less about the players and more about the depth. Belt instead of Cron would be a fine option. 

 

The Angels have lots of depth at OF, so sign Cron?

How about just play Taylor Ward at first?

26 minutes ago, T.G. said:

 

He’s not “just” sitting there.  He is technically dining.

Eric Hosmer is just sitting there.

4 hours ago, stormngt said:

Ok, my bad on the typo.  

 

My point still exist.  We are not tring to get published and these are not graded.

Or do you suggest that we run our commebts through AI first.

I guess I do expect some basic amount of competence in communication.  Sure, this is casual so the bar is low.  But that doesn’t mean somebody can’t notice a major trend like the one I talked about.

I think it’s perfectly fine to (what amounts to here as) rarely bring something random up and offer an opinion on it.  It’s not like I chase people around correcting them.

Just now, stormngt said:

Many needs to realize we are not trying to get published for tenure or write the next great novel.

Just deal with typos.  Mind is a powerful thing.  You should be able to interpret the meanings.

And If I wanted to be grammar police, everybody would fail.

Where did I say that I can’t deal with typos?  The conversation moved into another direction where somebody else corrected grammar and I said the misuse (not a typo) of the word “myself” is annoying.

You should be able to follow the meanings of these posts.

1 minute ago, stormngt said:

Do we really need an English lesson?

Many do, yes.

Opinionated

10 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Ha!  Check this out.

My two friends were in a Wendy’s ages ago, decades before any meme.

The Wendy’s employee took their order and then asked them, “Will this be for the dining room?”

And my friend said, “Nah, we’ll just eat it here.”

In my mind, that is the ultimate “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” where Wendy’s is the buffoon.

57 minutes ago, Taylor said:

*were

The mistake I wish everyone would correct is the misuse of the word “myself.”  It has essentially just replaced the word “me.”

”If you have any questions about the presentation, just contact Dave or myself and we will help you.”

No, it’s just “me.”  “Contact me. . .”

I don’t even get how anybody can get this wrong when the word “me” is so basic and easy.

”Myself” is a reflective word.  It is only correct when “I” is the subject of the sentence.

“I always give myself at least 20 minutes to get ready.”

“I view myself as a solid employee.”

“When I sprained my ankle I took myself to the doctor.”

Anyway, it’s a bit of a curse to notice this one because it is rampant and widespread and, for me, it’s cringy.  I kind of think people using “myself” in place of “me” think it sounds more intelligent or something.  I was at a college tour presentation and the presenter said something like “After graduating, this was clearly the best role for myself.”  This coming from someone selling the value of the education they got there.

Nails on a chalkboard.

If I ask MYSELF how I feel about this post, I would say it was too long and possible pathetically boring.

So feel free to hit ME with the “lighten up Francis” meme.

Just now, jsnpritchett said:

Don Slaught.

Nice!

I once interviewed for a job at Upper Deck.  Part of the process was to take a visual test of looking at photos and being able to identify the player.  No team names or logos would be in the photo.

I got two wrong.  One inexcusable mistake was I spelled Bob Welch’s name wrong.  I know how to spell his name but I somehow choked and wrote “Bob Welsch.”  That one will bug me forever.

The other one I got wrong was this guy in the photo (I just grabbed a face photo here, not the photo I was tested on).  I didn’t know so I guessed John Wehner.  Wrong, but they laughed at my guess.

Who is this player?  No cheating with image search.

What colleges are your kids going to or considering and why?

My youngest is in the final stages of deciding on a school.

Just curious. . . .

Whiner

1 minute ago, jsnpritchett said:

*Imagining.

Typos suck.  I bet I have to go back and make typo corrections on 80% of my posts.

6 minutes ago, Taylor said:

My thread title was hyperbolic. Clickbait. I don't actually think Washington has something personal against Adell.

Yeah, but come on Taylor.  It didn’t take long for you to end up talking about a BLM shirt.

You have made it very easy to view your takes as a bit contaminated by your way of thinking.