Quote (Wine @ Jul 17 2013 09:54am)
Hi Moofs,
I would like to respond to your post.
First of all, I would not sell either Buerhellel or JJ. Especially JJ. If you look at the starting pitchers available in the free agent market in 2014...the best available guys: Garza + Lincecum. Those guys will likely not come for cheap either, especially if they have strong second halves; and as we have seen with Lincecum, they can be just as shit as either of those two guys you want out.
I hope we do give up prospects to make a push. Regardless of whether that push is for next year or the year after, I believe we have a 2-3 year window to have a good chance at the playoffs. We should take advantage of this opportunity instead of delving another few decades of mediocrity.
Bullpen:
Yes, it has been great. We are obviously going to regress however. It is inevitable we will see more hits given up...a lot more. I do like the core going forward though.
Position Players:
I would like to rid of JP, I personally think everyone else has performed as expected.
Starting Pitching:
You summed it up well. I am starting to become a believer in Rogers, he definitely is a serviceable pitcher long term. There has been shit thrown around about the Jays getting Garza. I hope that happens. Even though Garza becomes a free agent at the end of the year, I would like to give this team a glimmer of hope that they are playoff-capable for next year.
If we just 'unloaded' what will that be saying to the teammates who wanted to win this year? Bautista and Edwin will off-the-bat be upset and angry. That psychological stuff can backfire longterm.
Think about it.
I'm okay with keeping buerhle, but what's the point in keeping johnson when he will likely just walk this offseason and I don't see us resigning him.
I would also like to get Garza, but I don't understand the point in giving up prospects to rent a player for a few months (assuming we don't resign him), just to make a 'try' and make a push that likely won't happen
On another note, I would like to applaud our management for the contracts we have given EE and Bautista, we got 2-3 years with our core players left.. so I also hope we keep pushing and getting better