Schad wrote:Cyrus wrote:
I don't get this kind build we are doing, we are essentially in the last couple years getting thise fringey type middle infielders /outfielders, like below avg to solid types, and same goes for the middling arms, and hoping for what, to get by? At some point we will need a big wave of elite arms to come through, is it just nate and parhadino?
I'm not in love with the fact that we've been more focused on near-ready over upside, either. But if we're going to make moves in that direction, I'm happier when they're more marginal deals like this, where there's no likelihood of us peddling the player for a high-upside sort.
We have no shortage of depth at this point, though...having shored up that weakness (and then some), I'm hoping that they'll move on to lower-minors targets, if for no other reason than because we can't roster all of these fringy players for an extended duration.
That's my point schad, we can only take so many of these fringe roster types, our 40 mans is so full of them, that we gonna expose a bunch of these 24-26 year old minor leagues to rule 5. They need to consolidate this "Depth" with some high A, double AA arms who could end up being somebody/blue chip but 80% chance to flame out. At very least, we won't need to protect so many.