A bit of a click bait title, but this is
a serious discussion. Dude had a nice run when he had the previous regime’s core to lean on, but now they’ve fallen off and he has failed to supplement them with future assets to keep the wheels turning. Not only that, but he proceeded to sign two lumbering, swing and miss dudes well into their 30’s along with a catcher who is already in his 30’s, despite literally everyone being aware of the risks of doing so. The farm is completely barren aside from pitching, all of it raw, with realistic ceilings of 3 or 4 starters given repertoire. There are zero position players to speak of. This is unacceptable, I don’t care where he’s drafting at.
That’s not even to mention not just giving Freeman an extra year and instead opting to trade a bunch of valuable assets for a lesser 1B. A move which is now proving disastrous due to his seemingly inability to draft. And don’t even get me started on giving up a young, cost controllable AS catcher for a catcher who was already about to turn 30, which was rightfully critiqued at the time it happened.
All that to say, I wouldn’t fire him this year. That would obviously be a knee-jerk reaction. I would give him this year and next year to see if these next two drafts bear fruit and shore up the future of this organization. Because right now that future looks incredibly bleak, and he’s got himself to blame for it.
AA is looking like another in a long line of professional sports executives who have a great run of success and then fall off. That’s why, as much as I think JS screwed up himself, he’s in the hall of fame. Even when he was making questionable decisions, he kept the farm loaded to keep the MLB team relevant. AA needs to prove this is just an aberration.
That’s all I’ve got.
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Originally Posted by CrimsonCowboy
