Lot of work to do. The main reason I was not for signing Yu with the terms he wanted because time would run out for him to help us before we will be ready to contend.
The Fielder deal is the one that killed us even more than the Choo deal. Had the Choo deal been done without the Fielder deal then the Choo contract wouldn't seem as bad. Folks lump them together and rightly so. One was bad, one was really bad and put together they were disastrous.
There’s a lot of risk there. JD’s butt on the line big time. And with a new stadium, it’s a hard time leaving a lot on prospects.
Will the difference in what Hamels can prove outweigh what a team gets from him over the course of a whole season versus a half of a season though? Then there is the chance he has another bad month or so early in the season and his value slips even further. I think you can assume another team would be willing to pay $17-19 million for him and we would have to pick up the rest. That is my guess anyway.
I just think that by far he was our best chance to sign an ace in free agency. We never have in our history. Now we pretty much have to wait on Ragans and hope he develops into an ace. Even if he pitches here in 2021 it will take him at least a couple of years to pitch like an ace once he gets here.
I have been hoping so, but you never know. Then again, if it is, will there be a true ace available in free agency and will our bad record in the preceding years negate the difference in stadiums as far as making us a favorable spot for an ace to sign.
It isn't an exact science for sure. Either you spend enough to win or you build through your system. You can't refuse to spend and trade away prospects. That much is close to an exact science. The not adding an ace until the final piece theory was not utilized when trading for Hamels. He was not going to be a final piece.
It was the final piece we needed to get to the WS. The point is that that was a team that was a lot further along on the path to playing in a WS than the team we had when we traded for Hamels or Lucroy. That is the way I saw it anyway. That is why I was elated when we traded for Lee and very disappointed when we made those other trades.
it would be fun if we started out with our kids having the chance to show what they have but our ownership has sat on their hands loading up the roster with players who have nothing to prove except to add money to their pockets. we are not going to see anything from our young players this year unless we unload players blocking them by the trade deadline. the leadership has chosen a path of inactivity that is going to slow their development to a crawl and add 2, 3. 4 maybe 5 years to the team's emergence from mediocrity.Most of this coming year will be interesting and fun to see how we here build the new team.
