If they truly want to give young players the time, why bring Nolan Jones back?
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“Seeking a reunion” before letting someone walk for 1/5 is absolutely insane
Rolling the dice with a bunch of cheap, young players in hopes that they reach their full potential. Wow sounds familiar and literally the same crap they pull every season.
God forbid we actually bring in legitimate major league talent instead of filling a roster with AAA hitters.
One the on hand: ABOUT DAMN TIME, this is what I’ve been begging them to do for years.
On the other hand: are you fucking kidding me? The time for “let’s take a year and see what we have” was before or immediately after we signed Jose to an extension, not as he’s entering what’s likely to be one of his final elite level seasons. If there’s ever a time to make a trade for or sign an established everyday bat, it’s right now while we still have Kwan and high-level Jose.
1 Rosenthal doesn’t know anything
2 Jones is cheap and we need outfielders. It’s unknown how spring training and the early season plays out. Having him for $2MM is a no brainer. It gives us options with almost no cost
As far as affordable righty OF bats go maybe Rob Refsnyder?
The idea that Lane Thomas got $5.25M just confirms that we will never acquire an impactful bat via FA ever again
Let the young guys play! Valera and DeLauter both have pop in their bats. Manzardo is coming off 27hr this year. I would love to see what Brito can do. Maybe Bazzana impresses in the WBC so much he gets an early call up. Who cares if we got a lefty dominant lineup. Play the guys that can hit
Did I just get “6, 7”’d by Ken Rosenthal?
I have zero faith that any of these young hitters we bring up will ever hit anything above .225.
Looks like they are looking for a strictly platoon rightie OF. Which means a high end bat is off the table. Hopefully these young bats are healthy the whole season.
Far be it from me to defend the FO, but they’re in a weird spot here.
The team as currently constructed will probably project to win around 80 games. The farm is deep, but doesn’t have the star power that’s going to get anyone excited on the trade market. So even if they push all of their chips in, package a few prospects for an established big leaguer, and make a splash in free agency etc what do they get?
A team that projects to win around 85 and still isn’t even favored to win the division. Kind of makes it a hard sell to burn the farm and the cash.
Sad we’ve just wasted Jose’s prime with all these sub .200 batters.
Anyone who expected different from the Dolans is delusional.
Translation: they were given an impossible budget to make any meaningful right-handed hitting upgrades in the outfield because “small market” fifth wealthiest owner in baseball bs. So they must resort to pulling rabbits out of hats to field a winning team, manipulate service time as much as possible without being completely eliminated from the pennant race, and rely on their elite pitching development to at least make the playoffs and try to recapture that once in a generation 2016 magic. Hmm, never saw this coming.
15 comments
“Seeking a reunion” before letting someone walk for 1/5 is absolutely insane
Rolling the dice with a bunch of cheap, young players in hopes that they reach their full potential. Wow sounds familiar and literally the same crap they pull every season.
God forbid we actually bring in legitimate major league talent instead of filling a roster with AAA hitters.
One the on hand: ABOUT DAMN TIME, this is what I’ve been begging them to do for years.
On the other hand: are you fucking kidding me? The time for “let’s take a year and see what we have” was before or immediately after we signed Jose to an extension, not as he’s entering what’s likely to be one of his final elite level seasons. If there’s ever a time to make a trade for or sign an established everyday bat, it’s right now while we still have Kwan and high-level Jose.
1 Rosenthal doesn’t know anything
2 Jones is cheap and we need outfielders. It’s unknown how spring training and the early season plays out. Having him for $2MM is a no brainer. It gives us options with almost no cost
As far as affordable righty OF bats go maybe Rob Refsnyder?
The idea that Lane Thomas got $5.25M just confirms that we will never acquire an impactful bat via FA ever again
Let the young guys play! Valera and DeLauter both have pop in their bats. Manzardo is coming off 27hr this year. I would love to see what Brito can do. Maybe Bazzana impresses in the WBC so much he gets an early call up. Who cares if we got a lefty dominant lineup. Play the guys that can hit
Did I just get “6, 7”’d by Ken Rosenthal?
I have zero faith that any of these young hitters we bring up will ever hit anything above .225.
Looks like they are looking for a strictly platoon rightie OF. Which means a high end bat is off the table. Hopefully these young bats are healthy the whole season.
Far be it from me to defend the FO, but they’re in a weird spot here.
The team as currently constructed will probably project to win around 80 games. The farm is deep, but doesn’t have the star power that’s going to get anyone excited on the trade market. So even if they push all of their chips in, package a few prospects for an established big leaguer, and make a splash in free agency etc what do they get?
A team that projects to win around 85 and still isn’t even favored to win the division. Kind of makes it a hard sell to burn the farm and the cash.
Sad we’ve just wasted Jose’s prime with all these sub .200 batters.
Anyone who expected different from the Dolans is delusional.
Translation: they were given an impossible budget to make any meaningful right-handed hitting upgrades in the outfield because “small market” fifth wealthiest owner in baseball bs. So they must resort to pulling rabbits out of hats to field a winning team, manipulate service time as much as possible without being completely eliminated from the pennant race, and rely on their elite pitching development to at least make the playoffs and try to recapture that once in a generation 2016 magic. Hmm, never saw this coming.