Hasselbeck
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Sgt. Largent":srrstmgs said:But if we're handing out indictments on the Jack Z regime, it isn't philosophy, it's his failure at drafting and development, two things he was suppose to be a genius at.
It's really two fold IMO.. they drafted terribly yes, but they also made some very weird trades and overpaid incredibly in FA. When you greatly miss in those areas, you find yourself in baseball purgatory.. where you're not quite awful enough to reload with prospects like a Houston or KC did .. and you're not good enough to contend. You're consistently in that 75-80 win area and thats a bad place to be in MLB. It's like being the constant 5-8 seed in the Eastern Conference of the NBA.
To truly fix this they're going to have to start selling off assets in the coming years, something that will be hard to do without ownership willing to bite the bullet on some salary (Felix, Cano, etc)