PatAg said:It's not national media when you have our manager saying it verbatim in an interviewBunk Moreland said:
what Tatis did wasn't an unwritten rule. National media just wraps it up into that narrative and it's lazy.
Ok, my statement was an exaggeration. Yes, spending money to target proven stars is critical to winning playoff series and potentially a championship. But out of a 25 man roster, you must be able to evaluate and develop talent.TXAggie2011 said:Payroll is not "irrelevant." If you look at who is around in the playoffs more often than others, its the teams with larger payrolls. Meanwhile, its been years since the Athletics, Rays, etc. won a playoff series.South Platte said:The payroll is irrelevant. The issue is our lack of ability to evaluate, draft, and develop talent. A number of teams with smaller payrolls have proven that it really isn't that difficult. With Texas, in our 49th season, we claim that it's nearly impossible.AccidentProne said:
Well ownership flat out lied about what the payroll would be, so there is that
Will our franchise ever fix this part of the organization?
I don't think anyone thinks they need to be the LA Dodgers, but on the whole, I think it is pretty clear money helps.
And......South Platte said:Ok, my statement was an exaggeration. Yes, spending money to target proven stars is critical to winning playoff series and potentially a championship. But out of a 25 man roster, you must be able to evaluate and develop talent.TXAggie2011 said:Payroll is not "irrelevant." If you look at who is around in the playoffs more often than others, its the teams with larger payrolls. Meanwhile, its been years since the Athletics, Rays, etc. won a playoff series.South Platte said:The payroll is irrelevant. The issue is our lack of ability to evaluate, draft, and develop talent. A number of teams with smaller payrolls have proven that it really isn't that difficult. With Texas, in our 49th season, we claim that it's nearly impossible.AccidentProne said:
Well ownership flat out lied about what the payroll would be, so there is that
Will our franchise ever fix this part of the organization?
I don't think anyone thinks they need to be the LA Dodgers, but on the whole, I think it is pretty clear money helps.
Here are our "top prospects" over the past few years:
Ronald Guzman - total failure so far
Odor - complete joke
Mazara - total washout by 25
Profar - zero
Calhoun - injury prone, zero HR so far this season
Gallo - maybe we have a long-term player here, but could be a Chris Davis
DeShields - decent, but finally had to give up on the guy
IKF - too early to tell, but appears to be a nice utility player but unlikely star; that's fine, guys like this are great to have
I can barely name a starting pitcher that we've even tried to develop. Martin Perez? Mendez? Both garbage.
Traded away Kela, Clase, Kyle Hendricks.
Can someone explain away any of this? We are simply the worst run organization in professional sports and most of us are incredibly sick of watching this crap for 40+ years with literally 2 stretches of decent baseball.
Grapesoda2525 said:And......South Platte said:Ok, my statement was an exaggeration. Yes, spending money to target proven stars is critical to winning playoff series and potentially a championship. But out of a 25 man roster, you must be able to evaluate and develop talent.TXAggie2011 said:Payroll is not "irrelevant." If you look at who is around in the playoffs more often than others, its the teams with larger payrolls. Meanwhile, its been years since the Athletics, Rays, etc. won a playoff series.South Platte said:The payroll is irrelevant. The issue is our lack of ability to evaluate, draft, and develop talent. A number of teams with smaller payrolls have proven that it really isn't that difficult. With Texas, in our 49th season, we claim that it's nearly impossible.AccidentProne said:
Well ownership flat out lied about what the payroll would be, so there is that
Will our franchise ever fix this part of the organization?
I don't think anyone thinks they need to be the LA Dodgers, but on the whole, I think it is pretty clear money helps.
Here are our "top prospects" over the past few years:
Ronald Guzman - total failure so far
Odor - complete joke
Mazara - total washout by 25
Profar - zero
Calhoun - injury prone, zero HR so far this season
Gallo - maybe we have a long-term player here, but could be a Chris Davis
DeShields - decent, but finally had to give up on the guy
IKF - too early to tell, but appears to be a nice utility player but unlikely star; that's fine, guys like this are great to have
I can barely name a starting pitcher that we've even tried to develop. Martin Perez? Mendez? Both garbage.
Traded away Kela, Clase, Kyle Hendricks.
Can someone explain away any of this? We are simply the worst run organization in professional sports and most of us are incredibly sick of watching this crap for 40+ years with literally 2 stretches of decent baseball.
Our most recent draft was widely ridiculed and laughed at by MLB experts all over the country.
My big question is when are some people going to be made uncomfortable? When are people going to be benched? Fired? Demoted?
This kind of **** is long overdue for a ball club that has resembled the walking dead the last few seasons.
AccidentProne said:
I have no problem with Tatis swinging away on a 3-0 count. In fact, I would expect Gallo to do the same thing. Hey pitcher, don't want to give up a grand slam? Don't throw a damn meatball right down the middle to one of the hottest hitters in the game.
You play to win the game. Quit whining about the "game within the game." Put your big boy pants on and come back out the next day ready to play again. It's a 60 game season, and EVERY game matters way more when you're trying to make the postseason.
xjrayx said:
Hindsight is always 20/20, but really wish Minor had been traded last year. Hasn't been the same since that trade deadline. And something is really off this year. His velocity is way down...
Lynn needs to be traded during a full 162 game season with no pandemic threatening to shut down the season.Proposition Joe said:
Not sure how much we realistically could have gotten for Minor at the deadline. At the very least the addition of Kluber and the hopes of a Kluber/Minor/Lynn top-3 made not trading him acceptable in hindsight.
Lynn needs to be moved as soon as possible, for whatever we can get. Offer Gallo a long-term deal and if he's wanting to wait it out, add him to the trading block as well. Foolish to have value guys on the team that won't be on the team when it's a contender again (2022+).
Were you talking about the infield or the team?Ranger #007 said:
Did they overwater the infield or something? Looks like mud.
