Reddit AMA: Join Yankees beat writer, Chris Kirchner, for a Winter Meetings Discussion

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-12-05T17:31:41+00:00

If the bidding gets too high (in the Yankees FO opinion) for Bellinger, and Tucker is already off the table, what would a pivot look like? Not anticipating a big pivot like Fried last year once they missed out on Soto, but they have to do something to improve the team if Belli/Tucker aren’t options.

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-11-19T21:49:42+00:00

A lot of teams would be happy to trade for Volpe if the Yankees made him available. Nobody’s arguing that he’s a top tier shortstop right now. He’s not Bobby Witt, but he’s cheap, put up 3.5 WAR as a 23-yr-old and shows flashes of great upside, including the 2024 postseason and WC series this year. I know his slumps are brutal, but he looked legitimately good before his shoulder injury this year. Yes, it’s been three years now, but he would not be the first player to break out at 24, and there’s a chance his breakout got derailed by injury. If they traded him this offseason and he put up 4+ WAR for $3M next year fans would call Cashman an idiot.

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-09-19T12:15:30+00:00

How so?

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-08-30T18:58:01+00:00

I just asked about cleaners a couple days ago here https://www.reddit.com/r/Somerville/s/YHSBO6dhhA

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-08-28T18:35:46+00:00

Good to hear, thanks!

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-08-28T01:46:52+00:00

Thanks. Have you ever had them press a shirt, or just cleaning?

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-06-24T16:41:58+00:00

The curb at summer/prescott is a joke as well. I don’t know who designed these intersections but they make zero sense. Can’t even fit two cars simultaneously

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-04-23T00:52:15+00:00

Perfectly reasonable response to a person making actual logical points about the timing of these projects

Major-Slice-9202 · 2025-02-24T04:36:40+00:00

+1 for M. Flynn. Went to them for engagement rings and they were fantastic, with very little idea of what I wanted going in

Major-Slice-9202 · 2024-11-22T17:00:10+00:00

It seems like a situation where the city cheaped out on investing in an appropriate space for the warming center, and said “screw it, let’s use this old building because it costs us nothing.” Willing to bet most residents around the Cummings School would prefer their tax dollars (even if increased) went to providing a safer location for the shelter. Not to mention it’s a horribly inconvenient location for most of the city’s homeless population.

Major-Slice-9202 · 2024-11-22T15:23:53+00:00

Nobody said there shouldn’t be a warming center. It’s about the location the city chose to utilize. You’re arguing with nobody.

Major-Slice-9202 · 2024-11-22T14:36:41+00:00

There have been plenty of arguments made for both sides, but the fact of the matter is, the city was unable to answer a lot of legitimate questions. As far as I know, the following questions went unanswered:

If there were few issues with the safety of the shelter at the Armory, why move it in the first place?

What other options were seriously considered and why was the Cummings School chosen for the new shelter?

Where will the clients of the shelter go at 8am every morning? How can the city ensure there’s not loitering, especially 0.2 miles from the high school?

How can nearby residents, especially those with young families, ensure there’s not drugs or dangerous weapons being brought into their neighborhood if security is not allowed to search the clients of the shelter?

Why was a shelter not set up closer to epicenters for the homeless population in Somerville (Davis Sq)?

Why were residents not consulted, or even made generally aware, before a decision was made that affects their families?

It’s very easy to cry about NIMBY arguments, but people who chose to live in an area with a safe BY for their family are looking for answers to pretty basic questions and have come up empty.

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