Very impressed with houck tonight. His slider had bite and his fastball had some movement!
I think bringing him for a few starts this year was a good move.
This is so true! And yes Hanley was also all on Larry as well.
Maybe one day we will learn just how much Larry interfered with cherrington, but most likely that day is not anytime soon!
And yes, these two bad Larry deals did screw the pooch for desperate Dave a little bit when desperate Dave was starting!
They used to say “you can shake any tree and good gloves will drop out, but rarely does one ever finds the tree with good bats.”
Dalbec is looking more and more like the next Sam horn!
I agree, I think hang’em Chaim will operate one the second tier for his one semi big signing. Then it is back to the “potential upside guys” for the next 5 signings. And then the final 5 signings will be bargain basement “wal Mart specials”.
Ps: Cherrington hit gold on the “upside guys” signings his first year. If hang’em Chaim goes 5 for 5 like cherrington did, we could have a better than expected 2021!
The trick for hang’em Chaim is to get us somewhat competitive next year while building a sustainable minor league system that can allow us to be playoff worthy every year. Take an annually competitive team and add an occasional top tier free agent signing and suddenly we have sustainable formula to be world series threats year after year,
I really think hang’em Chaim continues to sign tons of cheap pitchers this offseason.
But this offseason, he also adds a couple of quality arms for the bullpen.
I would like to see him bring pillar back after Bradley leaves.