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renostl wrote: ↑24 Mar 2025 13:52 pm

Melville wrote: ↑24 Mar 2025 13:33 pm

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Melville wrote: ↑24 Mar 2025 13:13 pm

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Melville wrote: ↑23 Mar 2025 12:40 pm

82birds wrote: ↑23 Mar 2025 12:25 pm

Melville wrote: ↑23 Mar 2025 12:13 pm Once again, the team does not make roster decisions based on honest competition to identify the best players.
Instead, players are anointed by the front office well in advance and gifted jobs.
TOXIC CULTURE continues.

agree

Makes no sense for the team to open with no backup SS given how Winn has struggled - and how the lack of a backup at that spot severely limits the ability to make specific late game decisions.
It further makes no sense to construct an outfield with 5 LH hitting options (Scott, Siani, Mootbaar, Donovan, Burleson) and just one RH bat (Walker), particularly since that one RH bat may well be the biggest question on the team currently.
I am not endorsing Fermin as being anything more than a bench player, but the fact is he had a vastly superior spring compared to Siani, has more defensive flexibility which is strategically important, and is a RH hitter with a team overloaded from the left side.
On the pitching side, it is inexcusable for Super Slo Mo to have failed to make the roster adjustments needed over the past 6 months to ensure roles were available to young pitchers such as McGreevy who have earned an opportunity and who have the potential to improve the team.
Pre-selected, anointed, bubble wrapped veteran players (regardless of the basis on which that was gifted) who remain on the roster are nothing less than a message to all players and staff at every level of the organization that performance does not matter, true competition does not exist, and winning in not the priority.
TOXIC CULTURE.

Well stated IMO.

Appreciate the kind words.
I do not see how anyone could disagree with such self-evident reality.
One can only hope the team is working on a move or two between now and Thursday.

Makes one wonder if Fermin was seen making it rain somewhere in FL after he got the
word that he made the roster.

Nice!
Humor aside, there is nothing more TOXIC for any organization than the words of "leaders' not matching their actions.

Agree on that statement.
Appears as low confidence in themselves.

The position side of the roster is a headscratcher.
In their efforts of providing protection on the 26 they have
consistently hindered it.