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Originally Posted by jd1020
Lets give Sierra his defensive shout out for the day. Thanks bud.
It's a wonder why these two teams are struggling.
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Well when you go into big league camp with only 4 OFers on the roster and your GM is so paralyzed by fear of losing another player off his 40-man after getting de-pantsed in the rule 5 by the Padres the last two years, you have to make due with a guy that wasn't exactly tearing up A ball before getting promoted all the way to the majors sometimes. I mean afterall, if he put Bader on the 40 man, he might screw up and end up losing another guy somehow. He's taking the same approach to roster management as I take to an angry wife - "I think I'll just go to the workshop and pretend this isn't happening..."
Jeremy Hazelbaker had a .900+ OPS before being demoted to AAA where he's putting up an OPS of 1.050. He was a very solid pinch hitter and versatile defensive OFer for us last year but we friggen cut the guy outright to make room on the 40 man for Anthony Garcia, who we have since DFA'd. Also of interest is that we lost Cordoba in the Rule 5 for the same reason and we're somehow playing with only 38 guys on the 40-man right now.
Because this entire organization is run by ****ing reeruns.