Recent content by MadduxFanII

The author himself acknowledges that the question is clickbait and they're obviously going to pick up the option -- even if Albies just ends up being a 1.1 or 1.2 WAR guy this year, you don't mind paying a few million bucks for that, and that's without even getting into the other stuff.

If you go player by player you can find reasonable explanations for just about everyone. Strider hurt his elbow, which happens to pitchers. See also Smith-Shawver. Iglesias is having a terrible first two months of the season, which has been known to happen to relievers. Albies is approaching 30...

Haven't used a first-round pick on a position player since Shea Langeliers in 2019. Also, I had completely forgotten that we once used a first-round pick on someone named "Ryan Cusick." Didn't wait too long before trading him.

I know no one here wants to believe, and the reaction after every win is "Blah, it means nothing," but just to note, the team has won nine of its last 13 games.

If it gets bad enough I suspect they'll find a way to replace Snitker that doesn't involve firing him. Promoting him to "Super-Duper Heckuva Guy Old-Timer Advisor Dude" or something.

Peak Bobby Cox was a different beast than Bobby from, say, 2000-2010. Peak Bobby was a solid, even occasionally innovative, in-game manager. Late stage Bobby was pretty set in his ways, but he still managed to squeeze great results from his teams due to his people management skills. Though I...

Sorry, I was going to respond to this earlier, but I rolled my eyes so hard they fell out of my head and I had to go track them down.

That's not a "Huh, he might be useful" huh. It was a "Huh, that guy is still around" huh.

Huh. Garrett Cooper.

If Acuna hits a deep fly ball tonight, I hope he walks to first base like he's taking a pleasant autumn stroll.

There's plenty of time to figure this out. We'll have more data on Acuna's post-surgery defense at the end of the year and a better sense of how we feel about Ozuna as well -- he's 34 years old. He might struggle the rest of the year, end up with mediocre numbers and that'll resolve that issue

Kent Mercker cracks open his daily bottle of champagne.

Beating the Freeze doesn't seem to mean much these days.

Did you guys know that Nick Allen is married to Bret Boone's daughter?

Huh. We won a Coors Field game started by Bryce Elder in which we didn't hit a home run.