Pickles

He pitched 11 innings in the second half last year. It's a fair question.

You can't just dismiss risk with a generic "everything has risk" statement. I could get hit by a bus tomorrow, I shouldn't start smoking cigarettes tonight. This goes for @Sports Guy as well. His K rate has almost HALVED since 2020. HIs performance is basically going in one direction. He missed time with an elbow injury this year in July. He made two starts after that. That's a lot of red flags. They can't be ignored and just waved away as "everything has risk" just for the sake of doing something.

I said I didn't like Snell's risk profile. I was right about it 2019-2022, and wrong about it 2018 and 2023. Bieber isn't Snell. So you're on the record then for Bieber being more valuable next year than Santander. Duly noted. Odds don't seem in your favor.

He doesn't keep trending downward?

I don't even need the closing experience. I just want a late inning bullpen arm and that almost assuredly comes through trade.

Who is likely to produce more WAR next year? Santander or Bieber? Santander seems the easy choice.

What are the odds that Kremer is straight up better than Bieber next year? Not insignificant. Bieber isn't really a worthwhile target.

Is any franchise in their right mind going to give up a Coswer for Bieber?

So? Did you not want to tender one of them? They both clearly should have been tendered imo.

Show me somebody who has turned either Mateo or Urias into a line in the sand.

I've said I believe we are a playoff team right now. We should still improve our roster.

When have I said what?

That's fair and we all agree. Literally, nobody is saying, "Stand pat." Now we have different takes on what that means, and we have different risk profiles, different targets, different desires, etc. and when the conversation is within those parameters it is constructive and interesting. But to come in here in 2023, talking about f-ing "percolating", which is from like 15 years ago, as some critique of the current regime, draws my ire. LOL.

You must have me confused with somebody else. I almost never post in game threads. Because of the endless crying.

Amazing how 100 win season couldn't keep you from crying for more than three seconds. But cry babies gonna cry.

Guess we'll just have to be satisfied with another 100 win season.

No, I'm not criticizing us discussing it. It's fun. I like it. I'm saying I don't legitimately have the expertise to criticize what Elias does or doesn't do other than in broad strokes. I'm not going to say black and white what he should or shouldn't do.

If this team had been run by you and your principles, they'd still be winning 55 games a year. And we can check the transcript on that if you'd like.

Right, but losing Kremer and Gibson, even if we get Cease, doesn't really give us better players.

It's like listening to the dude at the local pub rip out a song on the guitar. It can be nice, and we all enjoy it, but it isn't a professional performance.

We're probably going to have to make prospect for prospect trades. That's going to take insight and knowledge that is well beyond anybody on this board.

He's thought provoking enough, but extremely myopic.

You still have 162 game season. This micro focus on the playoffs, and again, false narrative, that we lost because we didn't "upgrade the rotation" is silly and fool's gold.

Your eagerness to trade Kremer while insisting we "upgrade the rotation" and improve the margins is really inexplicable. If we lose Kremer and Gibson this offseason, and gain Cease, it's very possible the starting rotation is worse next year.

You know the slurping talk you should really lose from your vocabulary. It's nice to say such things on the internet but in the real world such statements are highly frowned upon. I've conceded I'm willing to give pieces like this up. I'm just not sure if Dylan Cease would be my target.