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#4681 |
Special Teams ACE!!!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Where the hell is SNR
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I get that the Royals are far from contenders, but who the hell do you want instead of Whit? He's here for a few more years, and he's a very valuable player.
Sure, I'd take a young ace starting pitcher over him, I guess. But you really think you're gonna get one of those in a trade? More and more I think we should just keep Whit. Trade him as a rental if he's in the last year of control and the Royals still suck. |
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Stay positive, don't give up
Join Date: Dec 2001
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#4683 |
Better than Nelson
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Fantastic year!
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Posts: 17,356
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#4684 | |
Inmem 2.0
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: My house
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#4685 |
The Insider
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Lake of the Ozarks
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#4686 |
M-I-Z-Z-O-U
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Kansas City
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Yost has a proven track record with developing young players, and it’s the things that drive us nuts about him - his patience and loyalty - that make
Him effective in that role. He did it with the Brewers and he did it with KC. He’s fine for 2019. As for trading Merrifield, I think the strong finishes by Mondesi and O’Hearn and some of the young SP probably push that trade viability to the back burner, at least until midseason next year. If Mondesi can be what he was over a full season, you can see a path to being pretty good by 2020/2021, in which case it makes some sense to keep Merrifield. They’ll inject some youth and power arms into the pen, hope for health from key younger players (Soler and Mondesi chief among them), and see what happens in the first half. |
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#4687 | |
World's Best Boss
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bronco Country
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It didn’t matter. Under their leadership players were fistfighting in the dugout, not talking to each other on the team planes, and constantly fighting with management. Clubhouse issues are often cited in Oakland’s failure to win it all too - so much so that even Billy moneyball Beane cited team chemistry as a major focus during his current rebuild. Even if you think the locker room stuff is overblown, I’d then point to the data that says that ultimately, managers either factor in +3 to -3 wins per year at most. |
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#4688 |
Better than Nelson
Join Date: Mar 2003
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#4689 |
Better than Nelson
Join Date: Mar 2003
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#4690 |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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I think it's gotten to the point nobody likes their manager. It doesn't matter how good you are. Read Andy McCullough's mentions on Twitter every night and people are just killing Dave Roberts. Same thing with Joe Maddon... you can find plenty of Brewers fans killing Craig Counsell. I'm not sure there's a fanbase that actually likes their manager. I guess maybe the Indians and Francona.
I'd rather have Ned 10 times out of 10 over Mike Matheny though. |
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#4691 |
MVP
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: HERMOSA BEACH,CA
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#4692 | |
Inmem 2.0
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: My house
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#4693 |
MVP
Join Date: Mar 2013
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#4694 |
I’m a Mahomo!
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Mid-Missouri
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#4695 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Feb 2004
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