And they did sign an innings eater, but he won't throw a pitch for us this year, so they might want to think about signing another innings eater to take his place...
And in spite of this a lot of people seem to be buying into the idea that you have to be "ready" to take a run at a championship, and totally overlooking the massive crapshoot factor of the last few seasons. Teams winning less than 90 in the WS while the Dodgers win 100+ and watch the Series on TV.
To me that's self-fulfilling prophecy stuff. "There's no point trying to get better because we still won't be good enough."
Projections still have us around 80 wins, I think.
Boras seems to have overplayed his hand on Snell, Montgomery, Bellinger, Chapman and JDM.
Teams just weren't as much in the mood to spend this offseason. I think there are some numbers spooking them.
Can't get much back without eating some of his $16 million salary.
Best to save him for a possible deadline trade, IMHO.
Who knows, we may actually "compete" this year?