I think I was pretty clear that the ONLY thing I didnt agree with was that Bloom has lost 95% of his trades. I CLEARLY stated I feel he won about 40% of his trades. Several of the trades you posted were insignificant and it is not worth judging those. Everything else in that post I agreed with. Is that clear enough?? Perhaps you would like to re-read my post.
This was posted on X today and I am posting it word by word:
The Chaim Bloom plan:
!} Sign the worst starting pitching imaginable
2}Lose 95% of all trades made
3} Historically undersvalue defence.
4}Draft one or two decent prospects every summer
5} But never Pitching
6} Set the bar at the third wild card
7} Wait 5-6 years
8} Get destroyed by the Bastards of Boston podcast on a nightly basis
I don't know the answer to the last question but I'm not sold on Crawford at least as a SP and as for Houck and especially Whitlock if they could stay off the DL we would have a better idea. Both should be relievers IMO
i don't think we are that far apart on our views but I think it is a stretch to go back to the Schilling, Pedro, etc days. And who is to say that Bello doesn't turn out better than some you mention. i think he will. So does Pedro who should be our PC and Varietk our manager.
you are bang on with your first sentence. Bloom was supposed to fix that. The days of 200 inning starters is quickly going away. Bello is still getting better and has made big strides this year.
we should have gotten Sonny Gray 3 years ago. He is about to turn 34. I looked at the other FA SP and besides Nola the only other decent one I see is Snell but again he will cost more than I would be willing to spend at this point of his career. I'd be ok with Gray on a 2-3 yr deal at about 10-12 million per but he will probably get more.
Bello is on his way developing to be one. Yamamoto should be the other and if Bloom had been doing his job we would would have another young SP on the cusp.