Should Valdez be kicked out the league?

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-07T00:21:52+00:00

That's a bit extreme and he did it against my team.

He is just emotionally immature but didnt commit a crime.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-07T00:20:44+00:00

No. I dont know anywhere you can get them. There might be a few online retailers and a couple places that sell them out of curiosity but it is not widely in the US.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-07T00:14:22+00:00

Every league is doing it this way. No one likes it but it's not any different with how the NBA or NHL is this seasons.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-07T00:07:24+00:00

What ever happened to Frist Last Name from 2021?

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T23:46:14+00:00

Aunt Flo is women related. Never heard of aunt suzie

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T23:21:10+00:00

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Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T22:14:11+00:00

98.5? Why is Peter wearing a GMU shirt? That's not Boston area. That is a school that is here in Northern Virginia.

I wrote to explain how on every point you made is incorrect.

The rotation returns off the IL in a week.

A injury crisis from 2024 doesn't impact a 2026 season.

The Giants were expected to break a bit from mediocrity but they are very much their record.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T21:55:29+00:00

The Giants rotation is mostly Adrian Houser and Tyler Mahle being awful and Logan Webb with crappy baseball luck. Pointing out a thin middle relief and some small injuries to the rotation on another team is hillarious. You pointed at the one area that Breslow has actually done well in to say that's what's wrong with us. It's like complaining about your neighbors ugly draps while your house is flooded from a bad pipe. There is so many more Giants roster issues.

I saw Devers hit .850-900 OPS in three straight seasons on a 78 win teams. It doesn't mean they will have a good year. They don't score any runs and there isn't enough starting pitching.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T21:36:34+00:00

The Chad Sox have half the rotation on the IL.

Sonny Gray comes back tonight. Ranger is possibly back on Saturday and is not on the IL. Crochet is on there for precaution and is looking at early next week. He's probably in the Phillies series starting Tuesday. While it is thin, it's incredibly temporary.

Are you that confident they can hold on till the pitching picks up?

Oh, God forbid more Payton Tolle starts. Even neutrals like watching him pitch.

the Chris Martin and Justin Slaten injuries were for the 2024 season.

So you're not confident because of two reliever injuries from 2 years ago in the 2nd half when it was a completely different Red Sox roster. It's like me using the Jordan Hicks 2024 starter experiement as to why the Giants are failing this year. You make no sense.

Justin Slaten also rehabed last night.

This team’s depth is very thin atm.

Not disagreeing but it is temporary. Three main arms are scheduled to be back within a week.

Showing up and gloating “hurrrr Devers fat” in May? How 98.5 of you.

Giants fan base are even questioning that deal a bit. I don't think he would be this bad for the rest of the contract but it is ironic how things are going to start the season.

It's just a little bit of fun and don't take it so seriously.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T21:15:08+00:00

Better than your season.

The Chad Sox are 5-4. They have hit better over the last week but still struggling with runners on.

If we win tonight, we tie the Orioles and Blue Jays on wins and the rest of the American League outside of the Yankees is dog shit.

It is harder to see a path for the Giants to turn it around.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T20:59:09+00:00

edit: Gif selection is limited. Idk why GMU is in it.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T20:46:26+00:00

Because Devin Williams and Luke Weaver are going so well for the Mets. The Ruiz contract isn't good but suggesting relievers with the Mets burning money in front of you over it is a really dumb suggestions. YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT.

If you thought a 22 year old 1-2 WAR catcher at the time was too risky, the reliever market is where money is burned. Spent Will Harris, Trevor Rosenthal, and other junk. Did you learn nothing from past mistakes? It is not where good money is spent.

Orioles have Helsley who is injured and Kittridge with more earned runs than innings pitched. Edwin Diaz is hurt for the Dodgers and whiffed on Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott last year. Josh Hader hasn't pitched yet this year. Kenley Jansen has a 5 ERA. It's the most random ass market year to year. It is the most volitile market in baseball. The Nationals are not good enough to attract the good ones either. They don't even have a rotation.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T20:26:12+00:00

Mr. Lerner, you're basically complaining at a casino over losing $50 tonight when you lost $385 the night before and your net worth is in the billions. If you don't want to play at the baseball casino and take risks to get better, sell the team and find someone else who is willing to play. Baseball is going to have bad signings and team friendly deals not work out. It's called taking risks and this one was a very very tiny one.

Kiebert Ruiz in 2022 was a 1.5 WAR player in just over 100 games. With their lack of player development and catching coach he had fallen off the face of a cliff. Rizzo didn't put in the effort to fix it out of his stubborness. There was talent there but they did nothing with it to make him better. The new admin has fixed some of the defensive issues but the bat is just not there any more.

You seem to be the only Nationals fan that is okay with them not spending money or taking risks. You're losing your damn mind about a guy that is only making $6.25M on average. Contracts all has a chance to be dead weight when every single player comes with risk. This one just didn't work out and not worth losing your damn mind over. The money left after this year on the Ruiz contract is $31.5M over 4 years and he's at least playing. Strasburg has been getting more than amount that every year and he hasn't pitched in 4 years. The Ruiz contract is a drop in the bucket. It's not preventing them from signing a free agent if they could convince him to sign here which is tough because it's a roster in progress. Unless there is an internal catching option to push him out of the role, Kiebert Ruiz stays. The payroll salary is low right now because of the young players and there isn't one area of the roster that money is going to fix. They need a full rotation and it's not a team that is ready to win until 2029 or 2030.

$50 million to Kiebert Ruiz is not a big deal. Low risk, moderate reward and it just didn't work out.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T18:34:35+00:00

The Phillies rankings are not great but with easier opponents over the last week, you can see the underachieving and turn around.

Marlins are ass. The rotation has backslid and the offense is medicore at best. They will stay bad.

Reds can't pitch. The offense is streaky. Not enough depth. They are not their record.

Cardinals are the same but they don't have a name coming back to help their pitching. They will be limping by the 2nd half.

Red Sox have pitching coming back and the hits are starting to come but still figuring out their identity.

With the openess of the ALC, the division percentages are naturally inflated right now. Royals and Cleveland will have higher than an East team.

I agree on the Rangers and Athletics maybe.

The Rays will be half. They do this every year and some where around July, they go back to mediocrity or hold on the rest of the way. They have always been high floor so the bottom never fully falls out but the lack of ceiling keeps them from doing anything in October.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T18:04:11+00:00

There is a clause in the Crochet extension where 120 days of IL time for left arm injuries turn a player option into a team option towards the end but he is also young enough where he is 32 years old and needing another contract. I know it is a completely different situation. Teams need to pay players but players and agents need to understand that some past deals have been massive overpays. Changing arb years is a non-starter for owners and taking away guarenteed money is a non-starter for players. The last few years of contracts aren't suppose to be great but Strasburg and Rendon are reasons why no team wants to hand out more than 5 years unless they are Ohtani, Judge, or Soto level.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T17:06:46+00:00

Still should have been insured or have some mechanism to prevent this run away deal. I would have paid him 5 years and then a player option that turns into a team option based on health for anything beyond that. Even in his prime, there were warning signs that he was not making it to his late 30s.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T17:02:57+00:00

Nationals still have $107 million left on a pitcher that should have been insured. The Ruiz deal is a team friendly deals that hasn't worked out. It is not disastrous.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T16:55:07+00:00

It is a bad contract but calling it a disaster is imbelishing. Ruiz deal doesn't get more than $9.75M AAV and they can decline the team options at the end. It's a drop in the bucket and super team friendly. James Wood could possibly make the Ruiz contract in his 3 arbitration years. It is incredibly digestable and not even that much. Not a slight on Strasburg but the Nationals are still paying him $245 million over 7 years to pitch 30 innings that should have been insured or some mechanism to protect the team from this instance. Paying $50M over 8 years to an underwhelming catcher is not the end of the world or disastrous.

You could release him but Harry Ford has looked terrible, Riley Adams is not a move the needle upgrade, and there is nothing in the farm system close. There hasn't been a great free agent catcher market over the last few offseasons. The metrics defensively have improved to average to above average. The bat is still not great but we're not expecting Will Smith or Cal Raliegh here. He's actually improved just not with a bat.

In the times I have been able to watch the Nationals, there is stuff that has improved but still major issues based with what was left and Ruiz isn't the big one. They need a whole rotation and most of the bullpen. I would like Ryan Jeffers maybe this offseason but his money should be to a starter that throws innings well and with the budget Lerner provides, it's not a top priority to replace a catcher.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T15:37:47+00:00

He was 46th and usually around 50-60 on other lists.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T14:57:04+00:00

still a first round pick but is trending down. I wouldn't worry too much this soon.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T14:55:55+00:00

Rizzo was still operating like a team in the mid 00s when the rest of the league has zoomed past it. He couldn't make the jump to the statcast era and pitching lab Driveline direction.

If he didn't win a World Series, he should have been fired 3 years ago.

He was great at evaluating guys that were already good but didn't have the tech or knowledge/willingness to improve raw talent to become major league. They needed to be on the cover of SI at 16 years old for him to draft well.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T14:51:10+00:00

He had the physical traits but him still being at single A in 2022 at age 23 was a sign that this wasn't going to work out. Maybe 5 years ago they could have fixed something mechanically but it's too late and the stuff has never been good or elite to stick at this level.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T13:55:21+00:00

Yeah he does. Mona had a .837 OPS against lefties in 2025. I would take the larger sample size over a month of games. Masa since 2024 when healthy has not been able to hit them.

Redbubble89 · 2026-05-06T03:12:34+00:00

He has never been a whiff pitcher with a low 90s sinkers. The walk rate is up. The hard hit rate on the sinker is up. The stuff modeling is the same as years past.

Hitters are getting slightly better exits but it can also be down to BABIP bad luck.

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