Its hardly "spin". YOU might be satisfied with a good effort; I am not. If we do not make the playoffs this year, a very real possibility, then this team will have completed the FLOP and can join the long list of other FLOPS teams that choked down the stretch.
Lowe needed a change of scenery. Its hard I would imagine to get motivated to play for a team that is just playing out the string. My guess is that it would have been the same with Ryan. There is no way you can say that Breslow achieved his goals at the TD. He WHIFFED.
Success and failure in baseball are TEAM EFFORTS, from the owner to the GM to the coaches to the players. If they FLOP, which is a very real possibility, the entire team flops.