The rebuild began with Darvish, then Baez/Bryant/Rizzo trades. PCA is the first return to touch the majors. *If* Hoyer's rebuild succeeds, some of those guys might be part of it. If you fire him next winter, you may be firing him just as the plan is set to click. A farm-based rebuild takes some time.
I'm the optimist outlier, but could it be that the rebuild *is* going to click? That a bunch of the guys from the PCA-Caissie-Shaw-Triantos-Ballesteros-Alcantara-Cam-Horton-Brown-Hodge-Little-Birdsell crowd are going to end up being winning players? PCA and Hodge are just the first fruits of the harvest, but more is coming.
It's not just Koolaid to expect so. I think it's objectively realistic to figure that we've got some good players coming soon. Obviously it's Koolaid to think they'll *all* work out, or that even one will become a *star*. (As Blue has often noted, what we've got are good prospects, but it's not clear that any are *star* prospects.)
But harvest time is impending, and it could be a pretty rich crop. Don't give up just before it's about to blossom and pay off? And don't sell the farm just before harvest time?
Home
Chat
Login
Register