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  1. Longgone
    That would be expected of something named JustBaseball.
  2. Longgone
    Need to see how severe the tear is. If it’s a partial, it could only be a few weeks, if severe, six months.
  3. Longgone
    It’s true prospects often don’t work out, but what people fail to mention is proven, veteran ball players that you acquire often don’t work out either. Baseball is a cruel mistress. Which underlines the fact that sustained success likely comes from a deep pipeline that can overcome the inevitable failures.
  4. Longgone
    Or maybe you both are just throwing out wild ass, baseless assumptions.
  5. Longgone
    You can say a lot of things about Tork, but lazy and lackadaisical are definitely not among them.
  6. Longgone
    Sure, but he’s not “Tork insurance”. As a catching prospect he’s rated very highly, if he were first base only, he’d be ranked very low.
  7. Longgone
    They traded four guys, including one who was maybe the best player available, and got three decent prospects. I think they can do better. I love their drafts, the development system, etc, but this aspect seems to need a little work.
  8. Longgone
    He has the power, not the hit tool.
  9. Longgone
    Liranzo doesn’t have value as a first baseman, except that he can play there if you need him, he doesn’t have that kind of bat. His value is if he can walk, hit a few bombs, and stick behind the dish. He’s the main get, Sweeney’s probably a utility guy.
  10. Longgone
    I’m not a Harris slappy, I wish he could have capitalized on Erod as much as anyone. I’m just not not going to make up fake reasons to blame him, and then repeat them ad nauseam.
  11. Longgone
    It would just be nice if you would stop repeating the same false, baseless points.
  12. Longgone
    You keep saying this and it’s bull. No one in the front office blamed anyone or put any “spin” on the deal. Second, no one is going to give up leverage and amend a contract, so just stop throwing these things out there.
  13. Longgone
    It’s probably not totally fair to blame erod either, players are consulted of course, but generally stay out of negotiations. You depend on the agent to represent the player and act with integrity, and apparently this didn’t happen.
  14. Longgone
    What you are saying is if Harris was a total idiot and didn’t do the bare basics of his job that a third grader would understand , then, yes, he deserves our scorn.
  15. Longgone
    Yes, it was a fail. Yes, it’s wrong to blame Harris.
  16. Longgone
    The hopes rest with Greenberg, this year.
  17. Longgone
    Yes
  18. Longgone
    His first name is Francis, bad enough
  19. Longgone
    Arias, Pereira, Selvidge…
  20. Longgone
    Not sure Detroit would be all that interested in Kjerstad or Norby, kind of redundant to Greene/ Carpenter and Jung/ Keith.
  21. Longgone
    Jansen is not “way better” than Kelly, offensively or defensively, so just stop with that. Kelly was inhibited in the past by his injuries, but he is at least as good, right now, as Jansen. And while I would never say any kid can’t make it, they all have a shot if they keep developing, this was a poor return and I would prefer they acquire players with more developmental upside.
  22. Longgone
    Toronto managed it just fine.
  23. Longgone
    Not sure what your point is, they added very little value to the farm system, and you don’t, ideally, flip assets simply to create space. I surely didn’t expect any kind of haul for Kelly, but I did expect a little more upside, not basically organizational filler.
  24. Longgone
    The whole raison d’etre for rehabbing these veteran players and flipping them at the deadline is to add to your pipeline. This failed to achieve that. The accomplishment of restoring him to a valuable asset was wasted.
  25. Longgone
    I’ll give him a C; A for acquiring and fixing him, F for the return he got flipping him.
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