But we'd have hope for a dynasty. A future to look forward to.
But instead we are faced with the future of a big payroll and nothing from the farm in the next few years. A Marlins/Astros future is incoming, more painful years of rebuilding
Beeston and JPR did it and hired Gaston and the Toronto "fans" (by fans I mean the loud homers) went with it and agreed it was the right move and it bought JPR a few more months
If we could only develop pitching like the A's, we could have used the developed pitchers as trade pieces for batters that we can't develop.
But nope, we can't develop anything at all.