@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds Absolutely. My whole point was that the way to build off 23/24 success was by moving those top prospects when they had enough value to bring back impact arms, since FA was clearly a struggle.
@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds I appreciate your perspective. Hopefully he’ll finally win a playoff game and salvage his legacy. Or maybe he’ll get fired and the fans will be put out of our misery.
@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds Most guys don’t live up to the hype. That’s why you have to make the hard choice sometimes and trade prospects you believe in, knowing others believe in them too, to address other needs. Elias is a notorious prospect hoarder bc he’s only traded guys he clearly doesn’t believe in.
@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds They still haven’t committed. Holliday is on the bench today. I’ll put it to you this way: If Stowers, Mayo, Heston, Mcdermott and Grayson (among others like Holliday himself) have all lost value in our org, is it more likely that they all suck or that Elias can’t manage assets?
@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds The supposed reason we held onto all those guys, and why Basallo/Beavers were kept down, is for the sake of the future. Well we’re in the future and it hasn’t worked. Blame the players all you want but it’s on the front office to evaluate who to play and who to trade.
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@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds Because we made no trades and the pitching was atrocious. I’m not saying all prospects have to play, I’m saying you have to commit one way or the other once they mash Norfolk. Play them or trade them to someone who will (like Stowers)
@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds You’re close to getting it now. When you play vets who aren’t part of the future over top prospects, you are 1) stunting their development and 2) devaluing them in the trade market by choosing not to play them. The options are play or trade-we chose “platoon with McKenna”
@Bmoresports00@BaltimoreTOY@imagine29028@BeerAndBirds We had a positional logjam on a dominant regular season team that remained unproven in the playoffs, leading to a bunch of young players not fulfilling their potential. Shouldn’t we have moved more of those prospects when the team was good instead of hoarding their surplus value?
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