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  1. sneakypower
    i really dislike the way he formatted his ordering there
  2. sneakypower
    maybe they'll hold the line and he'll be forced back to Michigan for another year 😁
  3. sneakypower
    and the problem is Jed's terrible at actually spending efficiently; all the avenues for doing so have proven mostly fruitless amateur draft: seemingly getting better last few years but just Steele ('14) and Nico ('18) are really the only significant contributors from 2014-2023 drafts, which is just such an abysmal performance from the org. in that dept (not including Happ here anymore who's already expensive) rule 5 draft: [file not found] IFA: Assad (ZiPS-U: projected 0.9 WAR), Morel (0.7) and Amaya (0.3) is basically all there is despite plenty of monetary efforts trade: Busch, PCA, Brown reclamation projects/bargain bin FA: Tauchmann, Leiter Jr., T. Miller unproven/risky FA: Shota i'd probably argue all but #4 are downright awful compared to the average org and then the rest of our biggest performing players (currently nobody is even projecting for 4 WAR) are all basically being paid market rate values it all amounts to a FO who have performed capably at paying sticker price for some established decent players and more or less failed miserably at the rest of their job for about the past 5-6 years
  4. sneakypower
    ownership presumably gives GM/PBO a limited budget of finite money and of course the goal for FO is going to be to maximize the dollars their allowed to spend i mostly dislike Jed but this line of argument doesn't really make any sense
  5. sneakypower
    oh no how can we prevent tom from reading that write-up
  6. sneakypower
    i mean it's always made apparent the implied or explicit qualifier is, if they hit their maximal ceiling they could resemble a certain archetype, for whatever that's worth to the casual observer every hard throwing righty in drafts for a few decades got Clemens > Wood > Verlander comps, it should be intuitively clear we're not being actually promised HOF talents all throughout the eval process
  7. sneakypower
    nobody did this
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  9. sneakypower
    really odd their '22 top-100 prospect SS currently has the best wRC+ of any 20yo in his league (and only two younger players are hitting better) and that has somehow free-fallen him to outside org. top-20 they really badly missed the mark on one of these evals also still rating McGeary as a prospect makes me think you're no longer paying attention
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  11. sneakypower
    56 runs of offensive value difference the last full year between Willson Contreras and Yan-maya is just bad luck, sad to say, nothing can ever be valued or foreseen in a sport full of such randomness as this
  12. sneakypower
    "he had no idea that a player developed from start to finish entirely under his leadership was gonna suck" oh in that case he can be excused
  13. sneakypower
    i feel like i keep asking this but if the PBO can't even be held responsible for explicitly deciding to expel the currently best hitting C in baseball and replacing that production with intangibles guys, then.. who is
  14. sneakypower
    worst record in the NL since April ended and you're totally undaunted, as usual impressive amounts of blind homerism on display here
  15. sneakypower
    hell yeah juice up that trade value
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  17. sneakypower
    Klansby with the hapless K to end the rally, you can set your watch to it
  18. sneakypower
    nah he realizes Swanson is lurking behind him so it'd be total waste anyway
  19. sneakypower
    it's certainly possible he was merely letting out all his pent-up rage/emotion from 2+ months of total team suckitude but also he needed to record like 6 outs that half-inning and that alone would fairly warrant any normal pitcher halfway losing his head like that
  20. sneakypower
    the Brewers were perfectly willing to sell off the best closer in baseball without meaningfully affecting the near-term future, and in the process obtained the centerpiece for acquiring William Contreras & Joel Payamps a few months later; similarly again they also parlayed their ace into a lineup fixture and top-100 P prospect it's uninspired thinking to want to cling for dear life to your stable of 2-win whatever vets bc you're too afraid of whatever's behind door #2 not meeting that same standard, imo
  21. sneakypower
    i made direct reference to his 2 oddly out of character years following 5 seasons of established mid, what are you even on about rhapsodic paeans for a .293 OBP & 8 HRs is certainly a choice
  22. sneakypower
    his outsized statistical defensive value in '22-'23 was anomalously high and is already showing signs of dissipating, reverting to average performances in both major phases of the game that characterized his career prior
  23. sneakypower
    ok ok it seems you've heavily invested in his baseball cards i'm sorry for dogging on a below-average hitter with horrid WPAs
  24. sneakypower
    this is really funny when you see who was 6th during that span, should've just let the Braves pay him then as thanks for his services, getting served meatballs in the middle of a stacked lineup wasn't repeatable, i thought everybody kinda realized this
  25. sneakypower
    per fg Dansby Swanson is pacing to be the 27th-best SS-capable player paying $177M with a finite budget for a decidedly average player starting his decline phase is inexcusable; Jed has always been afraid to shop in the superstar aisle and this is what we're left with, at the midway point 1/4 of the entire payroll put into just Bellinger & Dansby has produced lower combined WAR than Josh H. Smith some people will cheerlead anything i suppose
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