It's his platform year. He had every reason to be a baby this year and sulk for a trade, but he can't do that next year.
I'd just hold him if the return isn't there.
All I can think of in recent history is the Jesse Winker trade to Seattle
He was coming off a good year but he was an obviously flawed player with a track record of injury problems, fringe power, platoon problems.
Exactly. "Unfixable" things on the player side are numerous:
- George's age
- Varsho's swing
- Too many hitters just don't have enough raw power (more of a team construction thing, fixable in that sense, but the specific players can't really just be different)
- So many RP don't have enough velo or swing and miss
- Rotation old and declining in term of stuff
- Manoah will never get it back
- Tiedemann is never coming
But he could just say that and it would have nothing to do with "protecting the players"
The only way to interpret that whole protecting the players part is if he was referring to talent of the players
Sorry, flat earthers
The only thing that he would allude to as "not fixable" would be player talent
He means the present roster was just lacking talent in certain ways but he does not want to get into the specifics
Of course that is also a criticism of the front office because they put the team together. But he wasn't saying the doom and gloom thing some of you are implying which would be something like "the front office is so dumb they can't be fixed"
They were separate points though
It wouldn't make sense for anything on the front office side to "not be fixable". You can always fire people or change procedures.
The only thing that should reasonably be read to be "not fixable" would be talent of certain players.
Change it to "an infusion of 45 and 40 FV players" and it is true
Certainly a few of them have a shot of being 50 FV dudes but it's more likely they don't end up there. Bloss, Clase, Macadoo, Wagner, Loperfido.