Dan Gilmore

Other than that, juusst a bit outside. 😎

Seven years is an arbitrary cutoff. The rankings would shift around if another timespan was chosen. Not a good look for Miggy either way, just noting the construct.

Needs more fiber

I assumed it was going to be about the young players wardrobes. This is good too. 😎

Are there paper towels to be tossed to relief workers?

Just a guess, but I think they will try and thread the needle with Miggy’s playing time next year. Not release him (mostly for PR) , hope he rests up and can have enough health to perform at a low, but not awful, level. Limit his games, with Carpenter and/or Meadows able to DH. See if that keeps the knee healthy enough to produce close to what he did for a short stretch earlier this year. But be ready to DL him (60 day?) if he falters to the level he’s been on for the last couple moths. There are roster composition problems with carrying him that way. Maybe he gets 200 ABs and sits a lot. Maybe he objects and it all blows up. I just don’t see them cutting him loose to start the season, or going forward with the idea he’s the regular DH. How big is the eye of the needle?

That has been on my mind too, and beating the Sux is always good, but thrice so no.

Also, not someone who might be out of baseball after a cup of coffee, but will still want to be able to say “yeah, I struck out Albert Puhols”. Conversely, the old guy might think, here’s my last chance to get some fame, as the guy who served it up.

Thanks for the awesome landing spot when we had to bail out.

SOC

We’re all pissed to some degree about the team, and venting is probably a good thing on a personal level. It’s a forum, so let the opinions flow. Speculation about the search, or CI’s motivation seems ungrounded in factual info and more so in individual disgust.

Did Quintana have a NTC?

Everyone? Name two.

Viña, it was all about Viña. 😎

Thanks for the snippets.

It certainly worked with Stan. What a dolt.

Maybe the boat had an open window.

Agreed, one solid SP (not a flawed one) is all I think is reasonable to hope/expect for that part of the team. A BP arm or two. Getting a RH RF with power (not easy to find) would be high on my list. And moving Meadows to a DH role primarily. If they can really limit Miggy to no more than 300 ABs, maybe he’s slightly healthier and not an empty SLG hole for months at a time. Other than that, roll with Kreidler, hope Turnbull is back, and generally better team health. Oh, yeah and a good GM.

I have a Ministry of Silly Walks teeshirt from the seventies. 🥸

I think it’s fine to admire QE, and think the rest of the family are duds. And not pay much attention to them, while respecting her.

Oye como va

Happy Hutchday.

While it doesn’t really explain the widespread failure of most of the current teams hitters, I think minor or chronic injuries account for some of it. Candy had his wrist injury a few years ago, and couldn’t hit until it got better. Is it back, in a lesser form? We know about Miggy. Do enough of the other players experiencing power outages have lingering issues that account for down years? Schoop is one we have talked about-the thought was that he is still fielding well, so he’s okay. Hitting is different. Since athletes tend to want to keep playing and “work through it” coupled with a long season, getting them to let things heal isn’t going to happen that often. We had the reduced Spring Training this year, and maybe poorer conditioning/more injury as a result. A good team with depth could overcome much of that. A poor team without depth…

I remember thinking the same thing, back in the brief Spring Training, when they rolled out a series of photos of the players. Who? Read a little about him and thought, he’s not worth keeping an eye on. Good for him, though.

I have seen a number of comments, here and elsewhere, that start out with “I didn’t watch the speech, but…” and then proceed to bring up all sorts of outrage and some dire warnings. Maybe those folks could spend a few minutes to find out what was said before jumping to some pretty radical conclusions. Maybe the outrage is the goal. Maybe the speech never included them in any condemnations.