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Gohara's improved control in the minors and majors has been really nice to see for sure. If he can develop an average change he could be a legit TOR for us with the control he's started to show.

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I really only read the first line of the post and saw who he was responding to, so figured I'd give him the heads up. But you are really one of the last posters on this board that should be calling anyone out for statements lacking in "convincing discussion". You just recently were trying to...

Yeah, I have those moments myself even though I've been trying to do the same. Typically it's thethe that drags the WTF dude comments out from me despite myself, even though I think he's been a tremendously better poster since he came back and I know it's just thethe being thethe with the...

You are arguing with a person who thinks the Tex trade was the right move, even with the benefit of hindsight, and doesn't believe the players we gave up in that trade would have made much difference for our team in the years following that. It's really not worth your time to try and discuss and...

I think that was the biggest issue people had with both the Soroka and Riley picks, at least I know it was for me and from what I remember for most posters at the time. At the time I was miffed we didn't go with a bat with Soroka's pick and grab Soroka with the next pick. Obviously in retrospect...

Nice to see all that swing analysis you used to do as a middle/high school student back in the day paid off.

There is going out on a limb, and then there is diving off the top of a Redwood tree with no parachute. Clv typically falls in the latter category. Everyone says stuff they regret or makes claims that make them look dumb from time to time, it's when you do it over and over again and never learn...

Yes, it's semantics. He should be untouchable for any realistic deal. He's a guy who could legit be a 4-5 WAR 2B for us for quite some time, you don't trade that unless you have a very good replacement (we don't) and are getting a legit Ace or middle order bat signed long term at a position of...

Wouldn't really matter what we did with Kemp, Tucker wouldn't be up until 2019 sometime anyway most likely, around this time next season at the earliest.

LF would be a pretty obvious choice, not sure how this is confusing. Not that the Astros are trading Tucker mind you, they wouldn't even give him up for a top tier pitcher this past deadline, much less in a trade for freaking Folty.

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Pretty much. Though I suppose if we hired Washington and sucked in 2018 we could just fire him after the season and hire a real manager for 2019, could think of it as proactively getting Washington out of the way.

I have zero issues with one year deals or one year with an option like Dickey, my issue was with long term signings like Cobb. He will be a 3-4 year commitment.

Agreed on that, but there is a big difference between guys on 1 year deals compared to guys on 3-4 year deals like Cobb as far as that goes. Guys on 3-4 year deals aren't able to be pushed out of the way as soon as the prospect shows he's ready, or at least not easily.

See, Blair is a perfect example of what I'm worried about. He got 3 starts in AAA, got called up, only got 6 starts in the majors, got sent down, got one start in the minors, got called up, got another 6 starts and then got sent down again. Blair may have never made it, and likely won't with his...

I agree 100% about what you are figuring about the pitchers likelihood to make it, but you are ignoring two factors here I think. One is you aren't including Anderson, Wilson, or Wentz in the discussion at all, and with as aggressive as the Braves have been with promotions at least one if not...

It's really encouraging to see his walk rate come back down.

Without a doubt. And it's completely baffling that all these posters want to fill up our pitching staff with pitchers from outside when we have to find spots for Gohara, Soroka, and Allard to pitch at the major league level next season some time, and that's not even going into the pitchers that...

9th currently, but the Padres are still playing and could pass us with a win.