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    Quote Originally Posted by Tapate50 View Post
    DBags backside still sore it seems
    So are the Diamonbacks rebuilding or trying one of those fake accelerated rebuilds that usually turns out horrible?

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    I'd love to get Bauer. Bauer, Folty, Gausman, Newk, Julio/Touki/Etc looks pretty stout.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBrave View Post
    So are the Diamonbacks rebuilding or trying one of those fake accelerated rebuilds that usually turns out horrible?
    Losing Pollock and Goldy will kill their offense. They might as well trade Peralta.

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    Wow. RIP.

    Former LA Angels infielder Luis Valbuena was killed in a car accident with former Pirates 2B Jose Castillo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBrave View Post
    So are the Diamonbacks rebuilding or trying one of those fake accelerated rebuilds that usually turns out horrible?
    Good point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBrave View Post
    So are the Diamonbacks rebuilding or trying one of those fake accelerated rebuilds that usually turns out horrible?
    The only teams that can do accelerated rebuilds are teams like the Red Sox, Yankees, or Cubs who have twice as much money as God.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UNCBlue012 View Post
    Wow. RIP.

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    damn, that's ass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    The only teams that can do accelerated rebuilds are teams like the Red Sox, Yankees, or Cubs who have twice as much money as God.
    or the Braves who had godlike drafting ability of Coppy

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    or the Braves who had godlike drafting ability of Coppy
    Our rebuild was hardly accelerated. It wasn't the decade long slog some teams deal with but also wasn't the two year turnaround big budgets allow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    Our rebuild was hardly accelerated. It wasn't the decade long slog some teams deal with but also wasn't the two year turnaround big budgets allow.
    Golden Wrens

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Golden Wrens
    finally some good drafting and finally some pitching, thank god
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    Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
    Our rebuild was hardly accelerated. It wasn't the decade long slog some teams deal with but also wasn't the two year turnaround big budgets allow.
    three years is pretty fast

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    I tend to think that AA will make a couple of deals that are not on anybody’s radar. Something out of the blue. The guys that are being talked about have multiple teams engaged and that causes the price to go up. He’s smarter than that. So, any guesses?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    three years is pretty fast
    It's fast but still fits the traditional rebuild mold. Mass selloff, wait for youngsters to mature, become competitive when they do. Ours matured quick making it a shorter rebuild.

    The accelerated rebuilds, at least to me, is a team with a goal of becoming competitive after one or two years down. It requires you to force the issue at some point. Teams with money can sign FAs and do it. Teams without tend to make dumb trades.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thewupk View Post
    three years is pretty fast

    It was. Probably can thank holding on to Freddie Freeman rather than trading him more than any other move for the relatively short time frame. Perhaps that's what the Mariners will get out of Ryan Haniger.

    Every team just isn't going to burn it all down and commit to being awful for five years. That seems to be what everyone thinks is the obvious plan for anyone that isn't winning 95 games, but it's not realistic at a lot of places.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Golden Wrens
    It prods me to think: maybe we should be super worried that the only prospects left behind by Wren were all internationals and now we almost literally don't have an international department any more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Southcack77 View Post
    It was. Probably can thank holding on to Freddie Freeman rather than trading him more than any other move for the relatively short time frame. Perhaps that's what the Mariners will get out of Ryan Haniger.

    Every team just isn't going to burn it all down and commit to being awful for five years. That seems to be what everyone thinks is the obvious plan for anyone that isn't winning 95 games, but it's not realistic at a lot of places.
    Plus the Oliveira trade helped a lot by ultimately resulting in the acquisition of Charlie Culberson.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Southcack77 View Post
    It prods me to think: maybe we should be super worried that the only prospects left behind by Wren were all internationals and now we almost literally don't have an international department any more.
    Well some of them were draftees who were traded by the successor regime. Wood. Simmons. Gattis.
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    Indians open to dealing Yandy Diaz. Would've been a good try at 3B a year or so ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nsacpi View Post
    Plus the Oliveira trade helped a lot by ultimately resulting in the acquisition of Charlie Culberson.
    Well you certainly wish they'd have targeted somebody better than Oliveira.

    The Kemp trade on the other hand worked out really well. It did bring back Culberson eventually and ended up "saving" the Braves two or three years of dead money. I forget how many exactly.

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