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How about Michael A Taylor? They already saw Waters perform well in Sept and knew he’s free and controllable. Same with Isbel Oliveras and MJ. There’s simply zero - zero - reason to protect him or Ohearn. Idiot shit


They dumped Taylor and Mondesi middle of January. Knowing they wanted neither, why the hell were they protected?

I didn't realize they had rights on Taylor and Mondesi.

Ouch - yeah, that's dumb. They had to know those were guys who were going to get non-tendered. Again - it's just basic asset protection stuff. Even if you think there's only a 5% chance Booker ever does anything in the bigs - it don't cost you nothing to find out.

Really bad resource management.

fyp

Garcia is better defensively at SS and it isn't even close. But he's struggling a bit more from the plate than I hoped...so far.

Taylor was under contract via an extension he signed in 2021 for 2022 and 2023. He wasn't under any arbitration negotiations.

Mondesi was though. They re-upped him in December to avoid arbitration then traded him to Boston for Josh Taylor.

Those guys weren't exactly guys to DFA.

They gave ROH $1.4M just before the 40 man declaration. Then outright cut him a month later. It wasn’t enough that his last 4 years he OPS 68. (For a 1B - DH no less). Or that the team ditched him a month later during the winter, apparently because he wasn’t performing well when games aren’t even being played


Meanwhile they dump the 1000 OPS guy who is free. Picolo is a dipshit for that

They knew they wanted to dump Taylor so they should’ve done it in Nov. what, did they suddenly change their minds in January? That makes no sense. If you just want to ditch salary you could easily found a partner after the season.


The only way this makes sense is if Shermanator ordered it in January for salary reasons and Picolo had to do it

Or you make a trade after free agency has been pretty much over which is what picking up Taylor would be. You are just being your obtuse self over nothing.

In fairness, they DFA'd him but then traded him for cash considerations.

So, y'know, some small chunk of the contract they'd signed him to. It wasn't smart.

They dealt Taylor and Mondesi, so they got a return on them, but the players weren't any better/worse than Rooker as prospects (probably worse given Rooker's ML track record) and again, they just made so many odd decisions at the fringes.

They were at 40 men for the Rule 5 (they didn't participate in the big league portion) but they...suck. The roster is bad. How can you look at 40 guys and say 'nah, no room for a guy who's done nothing but hit in the high minors' then keep overaged minor league relievers with no notable pedigree?

It's just a series of bad decisions.

I don't know why you keep spouting this. Witt Jr showed GG defense in the minors, so why are you so certain Garcia is better defensively? Just your normal contrarian bullshit?

The difference is Bobby Witt passes the eye test. He LOOKS like he SHOULD be a good defender but isnt. Hes athletic. Great arm. Good build. Doesn't make you automatically good at it. Its projection.

Rooker: .351 9hr 1200 OPS

This is the part where you tell us what you think of that.

Yeah, he was part of the 5-year rebuild plan when we drafted college guys in 2018 (Bubic Singer Lynch Heasley Bowlan etc). We were told college pitchers would be the answer. Just be patient and 5 years from now we will finally produce good pitching


Now that they all suck farts, we are told: we can compete after the next 5 year plan

Are Danny Duffy and Yordano Ventura still the best starting pitchers GMDM ever developed?