Kind of like Harbaugh just needing one more functional brain cell to be taken off the spectrum.
Sounds like it’s not much but it is.
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Kind of like Harbaugh just needing one more functional brain cell to be taken off the spectrum.
Sounds like it’s not much but it is.
JohnnyCockfight
Beer is God's proof that he loves us.
Hunter Greene makes his return tonight. Hope the Reds don't F it up.
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Greene will pitch a near shut out for 6-7 innings, they will be up big and the pen will blow it. Maybe a couple of late inning defensive gaffs just for fun.
Elly strikes out with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, their comeback bid falls short 8-9.
Lather, rinse, motherfucking repeat.
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Zem
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Cubs make solid contact and work the counts at the plate. Reds, in contrast, are clueless. Swings and misses, ground balls and lazy flies. Hayes should have called off Espinal. He could have just leisurely trotted in to make the easy catch on that pop up Espinal dropped in the 7th.
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You are always pretty safe assuming they will lose.
Plan your day according and sometimes be pleasantly surprised they win.
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They will never do it because it takes balls and imagination that come from a desire to win instead of a desire to put a .500ish product on the field that will generate predictable revenue BUT...Boston is desperate for a 1B, Steer is showing signs of life. I say trade him now if you can.
Then trade anyone else on the edges of the roster:
-Martinez, Rogers and Pagan are all FA so they can be flipped at deadline as rentals if they are healthy.
-Same for Austin Hays on the offensive side. He's having a nice year so far. Trade him before he gets hurt and is worthless.
-Of the guys still under arb control, it's probably time to trade Stephenson, he is only under control for one more year and is good and at a premium position so he could fetch a return. Lux is in the same situation but not near the player.
Everyone else is either pre arb, on LTC (Greene) or is well worth the arb money they are being paid (Singer).
You have a very good to semi great pitching core. You have some offensive talent (mostly in the infield) but will need to buy the rest that you need (outfield) because there is fuck all on the way from the minors.
We are in the same spot we have been for the past couple of years. Look at the Reds and Baltimore as the downside to trying to build exclusively through the farm. Even when you amass a big number of very promising guys (which is hard to do in and of itself and the Reds have done this) health and development are hard. It has to be supplanted with some proven veteran, MLB caliber players and those require money.
So we need the kids to develop and the owners to spend money to fill the gaps. Neither one has, is, or will happen on the scale needed to produce a winning team.
Football season is less than 100 days away.
Then trade anyone else on the edges of the roster:
-Martinez, Rogers and Pagan are all FA so they can be flipped at deadline as rentals if they are healthy.
-Same for Austin Hays on the offensive side. He's having a nice year so far. Trade him before he gets hurt and is worthless.
-Of the guys still under arb control, it's probably time to trade Stephenson, he is only under control for one more year and is good and at a premium position so he could fetch a return. Lux is in the same situation but not near the player.
Everyone else is either pre arb, on LTC (Greene) or is well worth the arb money they are being paid (Singer).
You have a very good to semi great pitching core. You have some offensive talent (mostly in the infield) but will need to buy the rest that you need (outfield) because there is fuck all on the way from the minors.
We are in the same spot we have been for the past couple of years. Look at the Reds and Baltimore as the downside to trying to build exclusively through the farm. Even when you amass a big number of very promising guys (which is hard to do in and of itself and the Reds have done this) health and development are hard. It has to be supplanted with some proven veteran, MLB caliber players and those require money.
So we need the kids to develop and the owners to spend money to fill the gaps. Neither one has, is, or will happen on the scale needed to produce a winning team.
Football season is less than 100 days away.
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