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Honey! Put on your Sunday finest, we're going to Sizzler!
Red Sox fan? Thank you for Fajardo, Clarke, Dobbins, Fitts, and Aita. Really appreciate it!
The IL stint for Rutschman? Yeah, I'm going off of what your own GM said, and quoting him verbatim: that his timetable is "unclear", which means he's likely not coming off of it any time soon. It's never good or confidence-building when the timetable is "unclear"; if he was close to coming off, they'd say so, and it would be fine. Also, he had an awful year last year, and that was plagued with injuries as well. Will he return to form the next year?
Extension? I'll believe it when I see it, especially with his injury, and especially with the possible lockout.
Witherspoon is still really talented with a four or five pitch mix. I have not heard anything about him being a "head-case"; just that he's struggled, which is fine and absolutely natural for a pitcher in his first year in the pros who is still only twenty-one and will only turn twenty-two on August the 11th. If you have insider info, though, do share it. Azocar, as I said, has the chance to be really good. He's a nineteen-year-old who has plus raw power at 6'2", 195 lbs. (which means that when he gets bigger with more muscle, that power's going to grow), and will likely be a solid defender in right field. He was #5 ranked in your system before the trade; in a now-superior Orioles system, he's #8. You also dealt Narvaez - an offensive minded catcher who will not be a free agent until 2031 and could eventually be dealt for a haul later on, if not flat-out kept if he does well taking the catching/DH job - who is not exactly "nothing either".
As for Mayer? You dealt him for a relief pitcher. A former #4 overall pick, who was on numerous top-100 prospect lists, and you dealt him for a single twenty-eight-year-old relief pitcher (albeit one who has solid stats this year, but there is no such thing as a consistent relief pitcher; those guys are flat-out voodoo, can be good one year, horrible the next). Mayer grew tired of the Red Sox organization, from his own quotes, because of how they treated his development and treated him, and he welcomed his new team. His words, not mine. Your track record of developing a lot of hyped young players (Mayer, Kristian Campbell, Triston Casas, Roman Anthony when he's injured, which is a fair amount, etc.) and, at the very least, getting value from them if/when you trade them is a very concerning trend.
OH, and let's not forget the Curtis Mead trade. You trade one of your best young lefty starters in Connely Early for Mead straight up, and Mead immediately goes on the IL with a broken hand injury (hands and wrists are as voodoo for hitters as shoulders are for pitchers).
Your GM sucks, and he fucked up a lot. Point blank.
Nope. Breslow great. World Series, in-coming.Red Sox fan? Thank you for Fajardo, Clarke, Dobbins, Fitts, and Aita. Really appreciate it!
The IL stint for Rutschman? Yeah, I'm going off of what your own GM said, and quoting him verbatim: that his timetable is "unclear", which means he's likely not coming off of it any time soon. It's never good or confidence-building when the timetable is "unclear"; if he was close to coming off, they'd say so, and it would be fine. Also, he had an awful year last year, and that was plagued with injuries as well. Will he return to form the next year?
Extension? I'll believe it when I see it, especially with his injury, and especially with the possible lockout.
Witherspoon is still really talented with a four or five pitch mix. I have not heard anything about him being a "head-case"; just that he's struggled, which is fine and absolutely natural for a pitcher in his first year in the pros who is still only twenty-one and will only turn twenty-two on August the 11th. If you have insider info, though, do share it. Azocar, as I said, has the chance to be really good. He's a nineteen-year-old who has plus raw power at 6'2", 195 lbs. (which means that when he gets bigger with more muscle, that power's going to grow), and will likely be a solid defender in right field. He was #5 ranked in your system before the trade; in a now-superior Orioles system, he's #8. You also dealt Narvaez - an offensive minded catcher who will not be a free agent until 2031 and could eventually be dealt for a haul later on, if not flat-out kept if he does well taking the catching/DH job - who is not exactly "nothing either".
As for Mayer? You dealt him for a relief pitcher. A former #4 overall pick, who was on numerous top-100 prospect lists, and you dealt him for a single twenty-eight-year-old relief pitcher (albeit one who has solid stats this year, but there is no such thing as a consistent relief pitcher; those guys are flat-out voodoo, can be good one year, horrible the next). Mayer grew tired of the Red Sox organization, from his own quotes, because of how they treated his development and treated him, and he welcomed his new team. His words, not mine. Your track record of developing a lot of hyped young players (Mayer, Kristian Campbell, Triston Casas, Roman Anthony when he's injured, which is a fair amount, etc.) and, at the very least, getting value from them if/when you trade them is a very concerning trend.
OH, and let's not forget the Curtis Mead trade. You trade one of your best young lefty starters in Connely Early for Mead straight up, and Mead immediately goes on the IL with a broken hand injury (hands and wrists are as voodoo for hitters as shoulders are for pitchers).
Your GM sucks, and he fucked up a lot. Point blank.
Thank you. Needed the laugh.
Your team ain't winning any playoff series, let alone the World Series, any time soon. Not with all of the shit trades your GM is making.Of course, my team ain't winning any playoff series any time soon, but it's something I definitely expected. Your team had the expectations, mine had none, and they've still managed to surprise me and a lot of the MLB.
The Mead trade was panned by scouts already. They said that the Nationals got a steal. The Rutschman trade has been said to be "the most ridiculous trade in the last thirty years" by a lot of scouts.
Yeah, WS incoming. Sure thing, whatever you say.
As an Oregon State baseball/football fan - as well as a Red Sox fan -- AND -- a 49'r hater, this outstanding!!!
Thank you. Needed the laugh.
Of course, my team ain't winning any playoff series any time soon, but it's something I definitely expected. Your team had the expectations, mine had none, and they've still managed to surprise me and a lot of the MLB.
The Mead trade was panned by scouts already. They said that the Nationals got a steal. The Rutschman trade has been said to be "the most ridiculous trade in the last thirty years" by a lot of scouts.
Yeah, WS incoming. Sure thing, whatever you say.
My team had the expectations? Thanks for the laugh....
I see you like to listen to "scouts" mainly. Is that how you ALWAYS formulate your opinions?
I subscribed to The Sporting News back then and remember reading an account of a RAMS practice where ED ran a route downfield and had a collision that left him feeling numb in his extremities for a few moments. After that, he was very limited as a pass receiver, perhaps owing to him telling the coaches he didn't feel comfortable running downfield routes after that experience.
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I remember that. Scary as hell.
BTW, amazing how we, who werent local to LA, had to wait for that tiny paragraph for Rams news and that was it until the next edition came out.
BTW, one of my early football cards was of David Ray. I don't even remember him as a kicker for the Rams but I had this card.
You're the ones who thought they had a chance at the playoffs before everything turned to shit. You had Crochet, a lot of good young outfielders (Rafaela, Abreu, and Anthony), traded for names like Sonny Gray, Willson Contreras, Johan Oviedo, and Caleb Durbin, were bringing up a lot of good young prospects like Peyton Tolle and Connely Early, traded away dead weight like Jordan Hicks, re-signed Jarren Duran and signed Ranger Suarez to a five-year deal. You were expected to compete for the playoffs before you fell apart and then resurrected your hopes.
My Cardinals? We traded away all of our "good" players, including our lone All-Star last year. We had no expectations other than last place in the Central and a bottom five finish, if not the worst team, in Major League Baseball. Jordan Walker was expected to have been sent down to Triple-A or dealt to another team for peanuts. Wetherholt was expected to have no shot at NL Rookie of the Year because of names like Nolan McLean, Sal Stewart, and Konnor Griffin. Burleson, Winn, and Herrera were maybe supposed to be the best players on our roster, and even they had/have doubts. Our pitching staff was supposed to be the worst in the league because of how completely unproven/bad all of them were around last year. And the less said about our bullpen before the start of the year, the better - because there was no more Helsley and a bunch of hopes and prayers, Romero aside, the aforementioned who everyone knew would be dealt around the deadline.
Who had the expectations, again?
A lot of times, listening to people who are wiser than you, much more experienced in their field than you, and get paid more to do this shit than you are good things. I'm admittedly not as versed a baseball or hockey prospect follower as I am an avid college football watcher (and know a fair amount about the game, but again, I'm not perfect, I get things wrong, and I don't pretend to be perfect and right all the time), where I'm able to form my own opinion with complete confidence.
Football is different than both baseball and hockey, for that matter; you only have to follow the well-scouted players who are confirmed to enter the draft, disregard the ones you sour on after watching them enough, and eventually, follow those players your team drafts and signs (about thirty or so players every year, if you're looking at the players on your own team, which is a very minor thing to the players a baseball team signs. There's international signings of teenagers - who are absolutely notoriously hard to see what they can do and project as, and that is all around the Caribbean, sometimes South or Central America, Taiwan, Korea, occasionally Japan, and more rarely, from other European, Asian, African, and Oceanic countries, all of kids around sixteen-to-twenty years old - drafts where there's at least two-thousand, give or take, potential players that can be picked, players that are signed as undrafted free agents out of college who aren't drafted, or even signed from independent leagues. The prospect pool as a whole of a baseball team, plus the minor league affiliates, ranges in the 135/150+ player range and constantly shifts with signings and releases - and those are just the ones your team drafts and signs, and doesn't include trades, and again, that is only your team that you pay attention to.
But no, that is not how I always form my opinion. I paid attention to the Red Sox prospects, in particular, because they were the main team Chaim Bloom came from (Rays start aside) and traded with three times with (Steven Matz for Blaze Jordan, Sonny Gray, and Wilson Contreras), and because I liked Eyanson, Witherspoon, and Marcus Phillips (Phillips, I thought would be an acquisition because of the Cardinals recent Tennessee connections: they have drafted three Tennessee pitchers, the Tennessee Gatorade High School Player of the Year last year, and our first-round pick this year was going to commit to the University of Tennessee), in particular. I also paid attention to the Mariners' prospect list (amongst others) because Brendan Donovan was being rumored to go to those teams - and was eventually dealt to the Mariners. I researched the draft picks that were supposed to be around #13 overall and #32 overall based on where we were picking. I don't claim to be some savant, and there's always someone smarter than me. I'm not so arrogant as to claim omnipotence around sports scouting.
But even I know that trading away a potential #3 left-handed starter for an infielder who hasn't been as productive as that pitcher in more at-bats than the pitcher throws innings - at a position of need, no less, since Crochet, Houck, and other pitchers of yours went on the 60-day IL - is a bad move. Even I know that trading away two of the top two pitchers on your prospect list, a damned good teenaged outfielder already in High-A, and a solid offensive catcher under control for four more years, for a catcher on the IL, not knowing by even your own GM when he's coming back and knowing you only have one-and-a-half more years of him without a guaranteed extension - if that even happens and he plays like you think he will - is a bad move. The fact that scouts are confirming what I already thought is good enough for my thoughts.
Could I be wrong? Sure as shit, I could; I'm wrong a lot, and I admit I'm wrong a lot, but if I'm wrong or right, it's on my own merits, because I do my own research into things that interest me, even if I do listen to numerous scouts in baseball, hockey, and yes, occasionally football about numerous things. Do you wish to admit you're wrong when you are? That's my question to you.
Interesting. I never heard about that. I always wondered why his receiving totals fell off a cliff. I always attributed it to Robinson.
When did the Sox hurt you???
Oh yeah, 2004 and 2013.
Dont worry, Willson will win a Ring for St. Louis!
They won on their own merits, and congratulations for that after 80+ years of misery. We still have far more rings than you or anyone but your hated Yankees.
And I still have every right to say that your team made some shitty ass trades around the deadline, and there are many, many people around the sport who agree that they were shitty ass trades.
That's all I need to say. If you want to talk baseball or talk shit on my team, go to the Cardinals thread on the General Sports forum. I'm more than willing to talk to you there. But
Fair?
EDIT: Correcting the forum where the Cardinal thread is.
Youre the one who started Baseball talk in a Football Forum. I merely posted Adley Rutschman tackling Christian McCaffrey since it was Football related.
Congratulations by the way for Stan Musial and Bob Gibson bringing you those past Titles.
I was lucky enough to see the GREAT Cardinals teams of the 80's. Keith Hernandez, Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee, John Tudor, Jack Clark managed by the Great Whitey Herzog. Great times.
I'm actually not the one who started it. Someone posted a meme of Rutschman on the football field. You even stated "We have our next Varitek" one post before mine.
And I'm glad that Raja, Dizzy, Ducky Medwick, Stan the Man, Gibby, Brock, Boyer, Cepeda, Simba, Carlson (for a time), Ozzie, Willie, Vince Coleman, Bruce Sutter, Jack Clark, Albert "The Machine" Pujols, Yadi, Waino, Edmonds, Rolen, Holliday, Berkman, and even Beltran, to an extent, brought us glory. We'll get it back because we're not going to be bad forever, not with the prospects we've gained/will gain, not with the surprising fight that our team showed this season.
We'll see you in
Sounds extremely fair. Dont have the strength or the want-to to do it, at least not right now. Willie McGee is in my Top 3 all-time favorite Baseball players, along with Orlando Cabrera and Thurman Munson.