Buchholz had just gone down and they needed a starter. Probably not much else available at the time. I guess you could call him Desperate Dave on that one.
We laughed at the Rangers when they signed Seager and Semien for $500 mill.
We laughed some more at them when deGrom went down.
But they've also added Eovaldi, Montgomery and Scherzer. I don't think I've ever seen a team go all in for starting pitching like the Rangers did this year.
I'm quite sure JH isn't bad in the way Snyder was bad.
But JH's impatience and ever-changing philosophy are real issues, and it's not surprising some qualified people aren't interested in the job.
Our issues at shortstop this year had a chain of blame.
-You can blame Henry for not shelling out to extend Bogaerts.
-Blame Bloom for signing Story with his injury red flag.
-Blame Bloom for not signing Andrus or Iglesias when Story went down, leaving Kike as the #1 option.
-Blame Cora for playing Kike at shortstop too much.
It was a team effort.
Pot calls kettle black!
See second post down on this page.
https://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/20614-A-Realistic-View-of-2023-Part-II?p=1539710&viewfull=1#post1539710