Brinbe wrote:i never said rogers were cheap or that they wouldn't ever spend. so, you're missing the mark there. i'm saying they don't know what the hell they're doing. giving a directive of competing with a rapidly aging core is part of that. as well as running around aimlessly in this fa market.
I agree that a lack of direction has been a problem. I disagree that an unwillingness to throw big bucks at free agents is part of that problem. Impatience has been the hallmark, generally, and for once we seem to be willing to exercise a bit of patience...trying to acquire players that we believe make sense, but not throwing money that we'll later regret at lesser options if our targets are not viable.
and i think drafting high in baseball has become more of a sure thing. and they've done an okay to good job drafting (how much of that is cherington though?) and the arms on the way should hopefully be decent. but being a good gm means more than just drafting well. BC arguably drafted well too. it was everything else that was trash. same thing here too.
of course we gotta wait for this all to play out. but its a worrisome pattern.
But, I mean, they haven't drafted high. Our average draft position, taking out the comp pick, is 16th. By definition, in a 30 team league, we've drafted later than the average team.
Beyond that, while we've done well with our first rounders, our young major leaguers came from later picks: Bichette was drafted 66th overall, Biggio was 162nd. The degree to which that can be credited to others is certainly open to debate, as it is with every franchise, but it'd likely be Brian Parker (who has already moved on) and Steve Sanders, rather than Cherington, as they were the scouting directors.
