1984Echoes

Powerball numbers for Saturday please...?

Lot of good starts this year for Wilmer Flores.

we'll be looking for some shooters so I see him as best fit, at least at this point...

The upside is does this close the door on DeAndre Ayton...?

Yeah, definitely better than Hayward's 2 years at $30 Mill per...

What a complete and total misrepresentation. Seriously? Wanna try again?

It's looking like a 3-way trade with Detroit getting Duren & Walker (who's a lot less expensive then Hayward); and we send the 2025 Milwaukee 1st pick to Charlotte. Not certain what else between Knicks & Hornets... So Jerami Grant for 2nd's and Kemba Walker at 1 year $9 Mill and Jalen Duren at # 13. Yeah, I'm good with that.

Just guessing but... Not enough.

All right... welp... we added our superior athlete to the mix!!!

It won't let me delete so I erased it...

United States of America.

Sedition against the United States of America. Simple answer.

But if you're just going to get a 1-year stopgap guy... which is basically not much more than nothing... Then trading "nothing" to get him is not a "Fail", it's a "Pass" - not in the sense that you are getting anyone "really good", but that you are just filling an MLB hole that needs filling for a year. It's like getting a C- or a D+... Yeah, you pass, but it's barely over the finish line of passing. It was just enough to "get by". That's how I view Barnhart.

I totally forgot those names but now that you mention them... Yeah, now I remember Danrys and Wilken... But I think there was a large gap between those signings - nothing but small-dollar signings - until they went back into the top-30 International Prospects again... and signed Wenceel in 2016. IIRC.

Maybe I was reading other articles but I never saw either one of those: That AA was a genius or that he (Barnhart) was expected to be anything other than a 1-year stopgap. My own expectations, starting from when Rogers went in to Tommy John, and have never changed since that time, were that we need only a 1-year stopgap to get back to Rogers after he recovers. Barnhart certainly was not someone taht was going to change that for me. And I'm pretty certain I argued that on the old board... "Barnhart's a crappy option, but we only need him for one year." It doesn't take a whole lot of research on, like, you know, the internet, to see that Barnhart is a 31 year old "meh" catcher not any different than as described: a crappy 1-year option just to get by until we get Rogers back.

It's so simple. This.

Never mind...

And that's not even the issue. The only correct issue here is that we needed a 1-year stopgap MLB catcher. Barnhart probably should be a #2 catcher. But he was a #1 catcher previously, and even if he SHOULD be a #2 catcher, we got him for THIS YEAR ONLY to be a #1 stopgap catcher. Listen (not to just you G2, but addressing this to everyone), there may be a lot of issues with this team, starting with health and a lot of failed expectations... but why is everyone making Barnhart out to be something more than what he is? Pure and simple: a 1 year stopgap. I could care less about Barnhart... I think there are bigger fish to fry... IMO.

That's next year's question, not this year's.

??? Barnhart hype? What exactly was that supposed to be? And Buddha is calling this a "failed trade". What are you guys even talking about? There was "Hype" associated with his name? Barnhart is exactly what he was supposed to be: NOTHING but a 1-year stopgap. Nothing more than that. Rogers is out for a year after surgery so we went after a guy who had MLB experience, was good with pitchers, and had a small amount of pop in his bat but a known/ expected low BA. We traded almost "nothing" for him. We need nothing more than 1 year out of him. (This does nothing to answer the future of the position, but that isn't what we traded for). And Barnhart has proven that he is exactly what we traded for: a catcher with MLB experience, good with pitchers, and a crappy bat. What exactly were (sorry for the Jersey here:) you'se guys thinking he was going to provide?

Wenceel was our 1st foray into actually spending money in the international market instead of spending only low dollars on as many players as we could. Our first high-dollar international signee... I think it was something like $550K. I don't remember spending higher than $125K on any one guy prior to that...

Has Javy decided that he needs to go on a smokin' hot run for a little while...?

And Baez makes it 2-0.

No I'm glad AJ is pushing him up there. I'd rather he get acclimated to where he should be in the lineup - and I think AJ should be doing the same thing with Tork like, right now - and go through his ups and downs. Especially this year. Here's your spot... figure it out.

Baddoo has power. I'm fine if the OF is Baddoo-Daz-Greene and Hill/ Reyes sprinkled in as defense and/or RH'ed bat for a Baddoo-platoon. I think Meadows shifts to primarily DH after Miggy decides to retire this offseason (conjecture), or is offered a "retirement plan". But if he still isn't getting power back (Meadows) then it'll need to be someone else. Can we get Paredes back for DH?