I respect this position, but...
I think Ben really rolled the dice with the rotation. While it's true that 4 of the 5 are below their career numbers, all 5 of these guys had something scary in their numbers too. The only guy whose underperformance so far is genuinely shocking is Porcello. All these guys had a lot of downside risk. That's the way I see it anyway.
I'm still on the side that Ben used faulty reasoning in constructing the pitching staff. Short on talent, and our most talented starter was also extremely fragile.
Bogaerts has Old School Stats that stack up very well against All-Star shortstops over the years. A .304 BA, 41 RBI, only 5 errors. Those are outstanding Old School numbers for a SS.
The Jays have dropped 9 of 13 and are back to .500. Emptying the farm for Cueto sounds like a pretty bad idea. But emptying the farm for rental aces hasn't been the trend anyway. Just look at last year.
I think this is a fallacy.
The Sox have won 3 World Series with Ortiz as fulltime DH.
The Yankees have tried that rotating DH thing and gotten s*** production out of it. In 2013 they got a .583 OPS from DH. In 2014 they got a .662.
Iglesias was also being paid only about $2 million a year by us-it was a total commitment of $10 or $12 million I think.
With Rusney we're talking about a $72 million investment.