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It’s a tough call, mostly because Cowser’s hit tool isn’t quite as good as I expected, though he may make more contact with experience. I like both players and they bring different things to the table. -
I don’t think I said exactly two top 100 guys but yes, I’d do something like Kjerstad, Norby, DeLeon for Crochet. I may have mentioned a slight variation on that previously. Crochet is one of the best, most talented pitchers in baseball. A difference maker. -
Unhappy with 3-3 would be an overstatement. I’d be a little disappointed. I don’t “expect” anything - I’m hoping for better.
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In less than the last 12 months, we have lost FIVE really good to excellent major league pitchers. Doubt we'd be having this conversation if that hadn't happened. It's been obvious for several years, Elias & Co. valued drafting position players and using that asset plus waiver wire to get pitching. Of the five lost, only one was drafted by us. The trade deadline will be a hard time to make up for the loss of those five. Hopefully we can do enough betwween now and August to continue our trajectory. IMO, the next 8 months will tell a lot about Elias & Co. and our new ownership. Re the OP. IMO, there is no fool proof strategy. To many variables with each. It's almost whatever works and gets you there. Elias & Co. have gotten this far with an Angelos' ownership. I'm anxious to see what changes if any occur in the next eight months. Come next February, I'll have a better feel for our direction and how we are going to handle pitching in general going forward. What we enter 2025 with re pitching will be the telling time for me. But sometimes even the best of plans do not work out because of circumstances beyond your control. Such is life and baseball. -
Not as short as I thought. According to this chart, he was here from 1984-1996. I definitely didn’t realize he was here that long. Funny, I barely remember what he was like. I mainly remember him being a good foil for John Lowenstein.
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