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  1. Hank Chinaski
    Hahaha ”The sips’ mediocrity has been slightly more mediocre than our mediocrity since 2010!” Put it in the wall, I guess?
  2. Hank Chinaski
    100% this. If he isn’t better than the other guy in any sort of measurable way when he plays - any at all - then it’s all make-believe. I have no doubt that they like him. Hell I wouldn’t argue that he hasn’t helped them become better players. None of that has anything to do with playing him over Diaz in 2023 when every conceivable metric demonstrates that Diaz is the superior player in ways that can be directly linked to actually winning baseball games. Make him the backup, keep him around. If all his value is unobservable anyway, then let him hang out in the dugout 4 out of every 5 games.
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  4. Hank Chinaski
    Well, circumstances changed. Garcia and Urquidy are out. LMJ never came back. This attrition was an unknown variable during the winter. So it isn’t better. But that doesn’t mean either decision (to pass on signing JV and trading for JV) was wrong.
  5. Hank Chinaski
    I guess it depends on how much $$ the Mets would eat on JV’s contract. If they’ll pay down some of it, I’d expect them to ask for Gilbert and/or Clifford.
  6. Hank Chinaski
    Again, not preseason. FG updated ratings has him as a 50 FV. That was the only point that was being made. And yeah, I’d rather have Clifford than Lee.
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  8. Hank Chinaski
    Yeah, that is almost certainly the best roster we’ll ever have. It goes to show that short postseason series are essentially coin flips because it’s baseball and sometimes Howie Kendricks hits a home run on a pitch located in a spot where he never hits home runs. Which illustrates the importance of playing as few series as possible to maximize your odds of advancing. Which in turn illustrates why you should maximize your odds of winning every game, at least within reason.
  9. Hank Chinaski
    Every regular season game matters because there is an enormous difference between having to win 3 playoff series versus 2. The bye matters a lot, and thus the regular season matters. If we are edged out by the Rangers by a game or two and have to play an extra series - well, you can reasonably conclude that Dusty’s insistence on playing Maldy so much more than Diaz (and all the games he sat Chas for no reason) was the difference. And that’s not hindsight, as most on this thread have been screaming this all season long.
  10. Hank Chinaski
    Yeah, the “luck” part was the failure to secure the interception that would have ended the game. 100% agree that Texas was fucked by other coaches intentionally.
  11. Hank Chinaski
    Yup. Dusty has been actively costing the club games all season and everyone seems OK with it. Also, it’s difficult to believe that Dusty is this fucking clueless about Maldy and Diaz. I’m sure he disregards plenty of meaningful metrics, but literally any metric or just simple observation obviously demonstrates the chasm between the two. He can’t possibly be this dumb.
  12. Hank Chinaski
    Hahaha yeah one game. Tell me you don't know oSu football without telling me. But yeah, that was likely as close as we'll ever get. Texas has had and will have many more. Texas may have been 2 plays from winning 3 titles in a 5-year span (Gideon dropped INT and Colt injury). You’d have a hard time convincing me that Texas wasn’t the country’s best team in ‘08 and that the ‘09 team wouldn’t have beaten Bama with Colt (obviously we’ll never know). Testament to the role that luck and randomness often play in deciding these things.
  13. Hank Chinaski
    Disagree on Jake. He’s a good 4th OF.
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  15. Hank Chinaski
    Here’s the thing, the pitchers like throwing to him! Intangibles!
  16. Hank Chinaski
    The write ups are updated with input about 2023 performance. Their updated list still has Lee as a 50 FV, so he wouldn’t have dropped. It’s one list, not saying it’s infallible, but he hasn’t dropped at all, at least to them.
  17. Hank Chinaski
    Someone asked if he was top 5. Someone else said he wasn’t. I added to the conversation. Stop being dramatic.
  18. Hank Chinaski
    It’s from 6 weeks ago.
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    https://blogs.fangraphs.com/houston-astros-top-38-prospects-2023/
  20. Hank Chinaski
    That would be smart on their end. They’re in a position to pay for better prospects. If that’s the case, it’ll be interesting to see what teams are willing to give and exactly how much the Mets would pay.
  21. Hank Chinaski
    Because the Mets want out of his contract and would be willing to take less in prospect capital if they can foist it on someone else? They may be able to get a better deal from the Dodgers, but the Astros could pull it off if they want JV badly enough.
  22. Hank Chinaski
    This is a ridiculous exaggeration; in both instances, I was reasonably happy the next day too.
  23. Hank Chinaski
    You’re being intentionally obtuse. You know that’s not what people are saying. Get fair value.
  24. Hank Chinaski
    Yes, exactly. Both. It can be done. That’s the whole point.
  25. Hank Chinaski
    People who assess prospects for a living disagree that he’s unlikely to be good. They are sometimes wrong, of course.

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