The 25-man needs to be purged of s*** that probably should have never been retained in the offseason: I never want to see any of Colabello, Smoak, Thole or Carrera after this season.
There are guys available every offseason. Just last year Flowers signed for cheap, Kratz and McKenry signed MiLB deals, and Conger was almost free via trade. It's so goddamn frustrating to be chained to Thole.
Won't happen as long as Dickey is here, but yeah, he's not an MLB player. I don't buy the narrative that none of the many serviceable backup catchers available every offseason are capable of catching a knuckleball.
I'm gonna be a wet blanket here, but this forum does that all the time. Every sack of s*** AAAA hack who comes up and hits a few homers might be the next Edwin/Bautista. Every stuff guy with no command is the next Carpenter/Halladay. Every GB control guy with no Ks is the next Halladay.
I don't think anyone thinks this is a stuff issue. He should and most likely will be a 7/2 K/BB guy with elite GB rates. He just needs to make adjustments, because the current game plan isn't working.
He's thrown 28 innings with 15 strikeouts and a 6.6 swinging strike %. Nobody is losing their minds, but the results matter a bit, and they've been poor.