“We didn’t expect this. We thought we’d be in a better spot.” - GM Ross Atkins
Posted Jun 5, 2019, 9:35 PM UTC
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I know this comment will be met with an eye roll, but I think it's a fair thing to say. Obviously the front office didn't expect to be competitive this year. I don't think Atkins is suggesting that they expected to be an 85-win team. But I also believe that they didn't think that they would be on pace to lose 103 games. Nobody who assessed the team beyond the "they're going to suck fire shatkins" crowd pegged them to be this bad. So while it might come across as being out of touch, I think it's an honest assessment
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I told people at work pre season I expected 70 wins and got scoffed at. Turns out I bet the over.
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I guess they expected us to have SOME** pitching and consistency but didn't think it would be this bad. They expected a train wreck but didn't expect it to explode.
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People really got to stop taking single sentences out of larger answers. All it does is falsely change the narrative.
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Seems you took a pass on the opportunity to include the rest and put it into context.
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I'm just going to pass the buck right along to the next commenter.
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"We expected a lineup with Alen Hansen, Socrates Brito, Brandon Drury, Jonathan Davis, Luke Maile and Billy McKinney getting major at bats to rake"
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A certain level of badness is one thing, and to be expected. But c'mon Ross, you didn't expect that you'd have to put a full team on the field?
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Ugh.
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This is the one thing I hate about Shatkins is they continually insult our intelligence by lying straight to our face.
We know exactly what is going on.
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This is a really dumb take.
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Sorry you feel this way.
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Care to explain how you think they are "lying straight to our face" then? Because they are 100% right, no one was expecting the team to be this bad this year.
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Clayton Richard and Clay Buchholz were brought in to be our #5 and #6 starters. Our #4 was some guy with no major league experience, our #3 a rookie and our #s 1 and 2 two guys with extensive injury histories.
Our lineup gave guys like Brito who have been nothing but giant failures in the bigs significant at bat's, and Brito is just one of like 5 bad players who we've played so much they've combined for -2.5 war.
Betwen scrubs like that, some rookie prospects who are always up and down and zero pitching depth, it wasn't all that hard to see us being awful if a few guys got hurt.
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Well the mishandling of the starting pitcher situation, or lack thereof, was the indication for me.
It's a smart decision by them to tank this year when your roster is turning over so aggressively. I'm not against trying to secure a top 5 pick this season, but don't go in front of the media and tell me the sky is green.
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They're not lying to us, they know we're smart enough to know this team is not a contender. He's playing charades with Rogers.
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5 years from now: "We didn't realize giving $50m to an awful hitter would be a bad decision."
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Who's the awful hitter?
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The only player they’ve given $50m to? And you can throw in $33m to an even worse hitter, and that’s like $83m to two very medorocre hitters, at best.
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Grichuk isn't an awful hitter though...
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Career OBP: .296.
Can you imagine one of the current playoff contenders signing a guy with that OBP to a 4 year extension?
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Grichuk
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But he isn’t an awful hitter
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He thinks you only need to look at OBP to determine how good a hitter someone is and also thinks $10 mil a year is a detrimental amount of money to give one player.
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He’s the only guy they gave that kind of money to, so that was my guess.
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The twitter comments are usually gold.
“Who would have thought getting absolutely nothing for Bautista, Encarnacion, Tulowitzki, Donaldson, Osuna, Martin and Price would have led them to this place?”
Lol all those guys were done though. They fucked up with Donaldson, but they deserve a pass on pretty much everyone else.
I know some people just don’t have a clue.
Lol sorry, I misread your comment. I genuinely thought that was your argument 😂
No worries I wanted to figure out how to link the twitter directly but I don’t have twitter and it wouldn’t let me
also i feel like we did just fine on the Osuna trade, especially considering the circumstances. if they trade Giles at the deadline, they'll get a kings ransom at this point.
Oh ya, I really feel like we have the potential to do very well there. Osuna had to go, that was obvious, and anyone who disagrees is an idiot. But Giles could fetch a very good prospect, potentially better then either of the prospects we got for Osuna.
Not to mention Vernon Wells. Fukn Shatkins!
Still can’t believe we let Alex Rios go on a waiver claim. Unbelievable of shatkins
I did, and I was vocal about it. I got nothing but downvotes for it smh fam ;_;
Probably because it’s a stupid take.
It really is.