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Longgone

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  1. 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.
  2. He has the power, not the hit tool.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. It would just be nice if you would stop repeating the same false, baseless points.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Yes, it was a fail. Yes, it’s wrong to blame Harris.
  10. The hopes rest with Greenberg, this year.
  11. His first name is Francis, bad enough
  12. Arias, Pereira, Selvidge…
  13. Not sure Detroit would be all that interested in Kjerstad or Norby, kind of redundant to Greene/ Carpenter and Jung/ Keith.
  14. 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.
  15. Toronto managed it just fine.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. I’ll give him a C; A for acquiring and fixing him, F for the return he got flipping him.
  19. Jansen was better than Kelly when Kelly was injured. He is not better than Kelly now. In any trade, try to get some upside, even if they are far away, not org fodder.
  20. That is a very weak return, very little upside, especially compared with what Boston gave up for Jansen.
  21. How did a major league club ever employ him as their GM? Or Dan O’Dowd for that matter.
  22. I’m not commenting on the equity of the proposed deal. I am saying a prospect the caliber of Holliday (and there are very few) must be included and you can’t just substitute quantity.
  23. Baltimore has a lot of good prospects, but Holliday is in a class above and would be a superior get.
  24. Navigato is basically an org guy, he goes where they need him, and if he has any chance to make the show, it will be as a utility player, jack of all trades
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