Some say it's a good day for Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

One element of the 2022 team I always forget is that Corey Knebel was closing games for us until his injury.

I remember him nearly driving me insane the game Vierling and Bohm hit back-to-back HRs off Hader and then he almost coughed up the game- which ended up being an astronomically important win

I don't want Marcus Semien to get old

I guess you could note that he won AL MVP in 1985, perhaps it being the 40th anniversary?

Colorado has doled out notable contracts to free agents over the past several years, and they've failed because they were mostly poor baseball decisions, but also you need some of the league to just not be very skilled at this sort of thing to balance layers of competence throughout the sportt

I hope to God that we don't get that timeline

Oneil Cruz is statistically overrated past the loud exit velocity and his own throwing velocity

Even better, technically it was .663 since that was his SLG with the big league club

Meant to reply with these this morning:

I suppose. Ironically I just felt like Franco was a massive defensive and offensive upgrade over Cody Asche, whom certain Phillies writers labelled the next Chase Utley immediately. I didn't realize defensive metrics were negative for him till 2017/18

Yea, it felt like Rafael Marchan played 3 times a month

At the time sure, but they knew the writing was on the wall after 2014. Amaro was dreadful at adding role players after all his mega moves for aces/Pence and the lack of any talent drafted from 2004-2012 reared its head. Even for just 2012, a bad May/June tanked them, Jim Thome/Ty Wigginton were meh

No it wasn't, that was in 2011. Roy Oswalt became a free agent after 2011. They won 102 games in 2011

Being in high school during this whole era, I always thought Franco seemed to have solid instincts but poor range, and a strong arm. I don't miss those teams performance wise, but man are they nostalgic to look back at.

Always wished he could learn to use his opposite field power more

but, genuinely, when did we stop being able to actually analyze baseball and talk about whether any of this is a good idea?

^^^This big time^^^
I keep hearing many Phillies fans hope that we extend Bohm and Stott and Realmuto (re-sign in his case) fully thinking about it in terms of "I like the gang all being together" and "It's Middleton's money" and not "Do you want the Phillies to be strapped to Bohm long term?"