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New to the forum but the front office is gonna fail this team yet again. They did a solid job building the main components of the team but the surrounding pieces and bullpen construction has been god awful and is gonna be the reason why we are gonna fall behind the mets and pirates and cards in the wild card race.
The bullpen is so easy to fix and they just refuse to put any money into the pen this offseason. The fact that Mike Dunn coming off his injury is gonna be a huge addition is incredibly scary. Signing one guy to a deal for a few million to stabilize the middle relievers/set up man was so obviously necessary this offseason and they refuse to spend money. Instead we signed Craig Breslow to be our LOOGY and they clearly never checked his splits because lefties hit him just as well as righties have in his last 3 year splits. nothing in his career showed that he could be a loogy, but we weren't gonna spend any money. Narveson had no business being in a big league bullpen but because they foolishly thought small sample sizes from Ellington and Barraclaugh were representative of what they are, they put too much stock into them being good and after they stunk up spring training we had to blow multiple games in the beginning of the year because we were throwing retreads out there. And I'm not sure why Wittgren is being used like he is the last guy in the bullpen, he has been very good and has looked to be major league ready for like 2-3 years at this point. He is going to be our next Ramos if you look at both of their minor league numbers comparatively. McGowan and Edwin Jackson have no place in the majors. Koehler is so obviously a great bullpen arm as well.
But the bullpen is nothing compared to the disgrace that is the front office construction of our bench. How many guys are out there every offseason that are capable of being 4th outfielders? Yet we're content with Ichiro yet again being that guy for us? He's been good so far this year but if you expect that to continue you're going to be disappointed. Telis is the deserving backup catcher and yet we continue to have Mathis on this team simply because the pitchers like throwing to him. I understand he's great defensively but when you have Telis hitting over .350 and our bench being completely awful, we gotta do something. One good game of defense a week is not worth having him on the team, especially when anything he brings defensively is overwhelmed by his complete lack of ability to hit. Put 5 million into the bench for god sakes, we are 28th in payroll ahead of only the rays and the rebuilding Brewers. One of the reason we have been so completely terrible for 13 straight years now is the complete refusal to put any money into depth. ITs happened how many years in a row now? The best teams in the league have injuries too, they just know how to build teams behind their star players.
I love this team but man, the lack of money spent compared to other teams in the majors when we have a brand new stadium that was supposed to fix this issue can be so frustrating to watch. Just 10 million on a couple of bench guys and a few bullpen arms would do wonders not only for the major league team, but for when guys inevitably go down and we are bringing up Narveson, McGowan, and Edwin Jackson. God forbid you spend 10 million more to get all the way up to 82 million and still stay 28th in payroll. All star game next year can't come soon enough.
The bullpen is so easy to fix and they just refuse to put any money into the pen this offseason. The fact that Mike Dunn coming off his injury is gonna be a huge addition is incredibly scary. Signing one guy to a deal for a few million to stabilize the middle relievers/set up man was so obviously necessary this offseason and they refuse to spend money. Instead we signed Craig Breslow to be our LOOGY and they clearly never checked his splits because lefties hit him just as well as righties have in his last 3 year splits. nothing in his career showed that he could be a loogy, but we weren't gonna spend any money. Narveson had no business being in a big league bullpen but because they foolishly thought small sample sizes from Ellington and Barraclaugh were representative of what they are, they put too much stock into them being good and after they stunk up spring training we had to blow multiple games in the beginning of the year because we were throwing retreads out there. And I'm not sure why Wittgren is being used like he is the last guy in the bullpen, he has been very good and has looked to be major league ready for like 2-3 years at this point. He is going to be our next Ramos if you look at both of their minor league numbers comparatively. McGowan and Edwin Jackson have no place in the majors. Koehler is so obviously a great bullpen arm as well.
But the bullpen is nothing compared to the disgrace that is the front office construction of our bench. How many guys are out there every offseason that are capable of being 4th outfielders? Yet we're content with Ichiro yet again being that guy for us? He's been good so far this year but if you expect that to continue you're going to be disappointed. Telis is the deserving backup catcher and yet we continue to have Mathis on this team simply because the pitchers like throwing to him. I understand he's great defensively but when you have Telis hitting over .350 and our bench being completely awful, we gotta do something. One good game of defense a week is not worth having him on the team, especially when anything he brings defensively is overwhelmed by his complete lack of ability to hit. Put 5 million into the bench for god sakes, we are 28th in payroll ahead of only the rays and the rebuilding Brewers. One of the reason we have been so completely terrible for 13 straight years now is the complete refusal to put any money into depth. ITs happened how many years in a row now? The best teams in the league have injuries too, they just know how to build teams behind their star players.
I love this team but man, the lack of money spent compared to other teams in the majors when we have a brand new stadium that was supposed to fix this issue can be so frustrating to watch. Just 10 million on a couple of bench guys and a few bullpen arms would do wonders not only for the major league team, but for when guys inevitably go down and we are bringing up Narveson, McGowan, and Edwin Jackson. God forbid you spend 10 million more to get all the way up to 82 million and still stay 28th in payroll. All star game next year can't come soon enough.
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