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Britton - "Hey Mike how about Westburg?" Elias - "Good player, can't wait to watch him lead the Tides to the Championship"

I expect them to override it just like with every other scrub player

Out of curiosity who is the third ? Not disagreeing or agreeing or whatever. Cowser, Westburg …

So what do they have to do then? Or should they just stay down there so we can get off to BA prospect rankings

The probablem with Mateo and Fraizer providing bench value is while they are here they will never be bench players they will always start and be run into the ground no matter how bad they get

Lester and Mateo should be gone. Fraizer soon to follow them

More likely minor league system ratings

Also means another 2 months in AAA for Cowser and Westburg

Don’t they need another bullpen arm now or was the bench short one ?

Norfolk has too many infielders now. Usually means Elias send up a third catcher.

Ortiz needs play more than 5 abs a week

Dann it I keep forgetting about his NTC

I don't know but one would think the NL MVP is going to cost more than DL Hall or Connor Norby or other prospects people just want to give away

I think you have to give up Cowser or Westburg to get Goldschmidt

And they will still say the see him as a big part of our rotation

Because Ortiz doesn't play, and when he does he plays for 2 abs and then Hyde lifts him from the game. And that slash line is still better than Mateo which is who he should be replacing

I don’t think he’s a busts, I think he’s a relief pitcher and they are just plain naive at this point thinking he’s a starter

So we should never promote them and let them sit in Aaa? They have to come up sometime. What about Corbin Carrol not everyone struggles. And if they do who cares. They can easily be better than Frazier and other scrubs we run out there

Is Justin Verlander or Garret Cole available this year? Because I don't see any pitcher of their talent available. The Astros got a bit lucky with the right player available. Trading for Jordan Montgomery at the trade deadline is not the same thing.

No one is to blame. They were dominant until they got injured that is the problem. Hell where is that thread that’s called “they all break” If people want to blame something they should blame Elias for completely ignoring drafting pitchers and putting all the eggs in the Grayson and DL basket which was a problem form day 1. we don’t sign pitchers except for the Gibsons of the world, we don’t draft pitchers, and we have yet to trade for any and I doubt we get some big time ace. No idea how they figure out the pitching issue, they just seem to want to kick the can down the road

You can’t hurt your minor league system ratings they are important

Mullins Adley Henderson Santander Hays O'Hearn Urias Westburg Cowser

My issue is NY and Toronoto are up our butt and Houston and even Angels right behind us in the WC standings. 2-3 teams are going to fall eventually and when the AAAA guys go back to playing like AAAA players I am worried they will be too infatued with them to cut them loose. You can only ride out the Tim Beckams and Alejandro de Aza's so far. Imagine we win 90 games but miss the playoffs like the Jays did a few years ago. At this point missing the playoffs is a huge dissapointment.

I have a feeling that will happen with most guys. They won't promote them unless they are forced to by the rule 5 or they turn 25. They obssess over 40 man spots even though their are still several guys that can go and won't be missed. They keep all these scrub picthers on their who never come up or come up and then don't picth and are sent down a day later. They seem to just want to hoard prospects. People can say we will trade for picthing, will we though? Are we really going to trade Westburg for the Jordan Montgomery's and Rich Hill's of the world?

The “tHeY WiLl StRugGle” excuse is just as stupid as the they will lose their trade value excuse