When it comes to Henry, the biggest thing that concerns me is the bipolar thinking Lack of consistent strategy,
1.) we dump Theo. We hire Ben and henry says we need to start the process of building a minor league feeding system that can crank out quality players and with some free agent augmentation, we can build a sustainable program that can compete every year. We get lucky and win a World Series!
2.) two-three years into the rebuild, we have several last place finishes, but the number 1 ranked farm system in baseball.
3.) Henry nuts up from the pressure from several last place finishes and puts lucky Larry in charge of over seeing Ben. Lucky Larry signs some really bad contracts in an effort to speed up the rebuild. It fails. Lucky Larry is booted.
4.) Henry then changes direction and pulls the plug on the rebuild and boots Ben while hiring desperate Dave. Henry tells desperate Dave to win now. Desperate Dave guts the minor league system in trades. Desperate Dave gives out some huge contracts. Desperate Dave has the most expensive payroll in baseball. Desperate Dave runs off all the best and brightest from our baseball operations department and our analytics department.
5.) desperate Dave wins a World Series, but his scorched earth tactics has left us bereft of any talent in the front office and minor league system and we are left with huge contracts and many sore armed pitchers.
6.) Henry reverses course yet again and dumps desperate Dave and brings in hang’em Chaim. He gives hang’em Chaim an executive order, get under the salary cap and get a reset. Hang’em Chaim trades Betts and price! People get upset that we can be competitive in 2020.
Henry please pick a lane and strategy and stick to it!!!! Henry your bipolar decease is treatable!