Yet the FO has had a good track record of finding value in the past, so are you really worried that they've somehow forgotten how to do that? Of course not.
I count 11 of them as coming from outside the organization, including Hill and Lopez as re-signs. How many actually contributed a -1.0 WAR (or worse) on their own? Dolis, Germano, Volstad Clevenger, Vitters, Mather That's about what I expected.
I count 11 of them as coming from outside the organization, including Hill and Lopez as re-signs. How many actually contributed a -1.0 WAR (or worse) on their own?
There's really no excuse for Mather being on the roster: he'd been garbage for the two years prior to 2012. I wouldn't say it's a huge deal, because who the [expletive] is going to predict a -2.0 WAR? Offensively he was in line with his expected turdiness, but his defense apparently fell off of a cliff.
At some point, Epstein has to take the blame for either the 2012 Red Sox or Cubs. He can't dodge both. Hey, you want to hang three bad teams on the FO, champ. Reach for the stars!
Come on, who except the meatballs here isn't rooting for the A's? Regardless of the actual details, the narrative of "BILLY 'HE WROTE MONEYBALL, RIGHT?' BEANE MACGYVERS HIMSELF A WORLD SERIES WITH STRING CHEESE AND THE CHANGE HE FOUND UNDER THE COUCH" and the amount of dinosaur heads it would explode is too good to pass up.
HEY GUYS THIS THREAD DOESN'T HAVE TO ABOUT KYLE EVEN THOUGH HE SAYS REALLY REALLY DUMB THINGS SO HE CAN SAY HEY GUYS THIS THREAD DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ABOUT KYLE.
With guys like Castro, Rizzo, Soriano, and DeJesus, this team should beat the joke lineup the Astros are trotting out there. That's not how baseball works. Weird DeJesus shout-out.
You call the Astros the worst like the Cubs aren't within spitting distance of being the same. Bemoaning any loses this point as being any more "pathetic" is just trying too damn hard to be miserable.