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During this 1-9 stretch that started July 9, team ranks (per FanGraphs): Runs scored: 30th since July 9 (through July 8: 6th) wRC+: 30th (7th) ISO: 30th (6th) BABIP: 22nd (6th) Batter K%: 27th (23%) Batter BB%: 11th (16th) Baserunning: 5th (6th) Defense: 15th (15th) Runs against: t-29th (4th) Pitcher K/9: 1st (13th) Pitcher BB/9: 22nd (5th) Pitcher HR/9: 25th (9th) HR/FB: 28th (13th) ERA: 30th (3rd) FIP: 22nd (6th) xFIP: 4th (5th) As bad as things have been, there are some underlying bright spots in that we are still doing some key things as well during that stretch as before it. We're still taking walks and running the bases. The defense is holding up. Our pitchers are all of a sudden striking out guys at a league-leading clip. and not just Tarik Skubal. The home runs we're giving up may be due at least as much to bad luck as bad pitching. Putting it all together, this looks less like a massive soul-crushing correction than it does a stretch of some really bad luck. Seeing this before/after comparison actually made me feel a little better. We may not exactly be a legit 100-win team, but I think we're going to be OK, and remember, we are not in a ring-or-bust situation. We have an bright immediate future as well.

lol, no, really, serious question for ATF. Who of those five get squeezed out if we commit to Freeman in right for three years? I want to understand the thinking.

FWIW, Freeman has the wing for right, but his range is crap. If we're going to commit to Tyler Freeman in the outfield for the next three years, who out of Riley, Parker, Wenceel, Carpenter, and Max get the other two slots and who gets squeezed out?

I'm with some other poster who suggested as much earlier: I think that nerve issue might still be affecting him.

Insiders really respect the ethereal and presumably transitive qualities of superstardom.

Throw in Max and McGonigle and you got a deal! 🥴

I don't think many singles-hitting major leaguers are over 60! 😉

I can see why you like it!

We pretty much know how this is going to go, don't we? Maxwell will claim she too was a victim of Epstein and was coerced into sexually abuse girls along with him; and also, Trump never came near any of it and they severed their relationship decades ago.

Greene, Tork and Carpenter are under control until 2029. If we can’t get Max, McGonigle, Liranzo et al here and contributing before then, then something’s gone horribly wrong! 😉 I do think Harris will make at least one move, but I wouldn’t be surprised that it will be a move nobody thought of before, nobody thinks much of at the time, he gets criticized for not going bigger, and the return turns out to be good solid contributors.

He seems nice.

Maybe it was code for “keep your ****ing mouth shut, bitch”?

Compartmentalization?

Trump is there to create the distractions about stupid **** while they gut government in plain sight so the can loot it and sell it off for parts.

Which leftists do you believe are inside the administration deep enough that they would be a “source familiar with the discussion” in which Bondi told Trump he was in the files?

I think Skubal is the only one we are in danger of losing soon and that’s not even next year, unless you’re also thinking of Gleyber and Javy and Casey and Flaherty. Given the team we have, I can’t envision what the one big fix is that would snap us out of a 1-9 funk and put us on track to being a .667 team again. We could liquidate Pipeline Top 100 guys for shiny top trade targets and still stumble our way to the finish line and go splat in October. Making a big move that fails risks Scott Harris’s plan to build the core he has said his goal is, not to mention putting his job at risk. He’s in a very different situation from a Jed Hoyer or Jerry Dipoto, so I’d be surprised to see Harris blow up his longer term plans for a ring-or-bust move next week.

Not wrong. I’ve been wondering whether something medical about Riley comes out after the season.

If the benchmark for Scott Harris is to get players along the lines of Suarez and Bednar and Clase and Keller and Cade Smith and do so without giving up any of our top five players, I think we’re going to have a lot of disappointed posters here on August 1. Although I do think we could get Taylor Ward at a cost of guys in the 6-20 range, if Taylor Ward were a guy Harris wanted. Not sure what would we do with Riley in that case, though.

This strikes me as a low-key brilliant move since they obviously don’t want to release anything and now they can blame the courts which they knew would block them from doing so.

All this makes a lot of sense. That doesn’t mean they won’t try it, especially after Trump primes the pump by claiming Obama and Biden administrations themselves changed official documents to cover their own crimes.

Nothing wrong with wanting what you want. I don’t think Harris sees it that way.

Speaking of Mannarino, what on god’s green earth is this guy even talking about??