dbackjon wrote:
Same team, different results.
BoMel needs to be fired...Players regressed during the year.
I disagree. I think they OVER achieved last year. How can he be manager of the year one year, then fired the next?
I think Rick Schu needs to GO. NOW. Our hitters SUCK big BALLS.
And I think Kirk Gibson needs to rip somebody's head off and shit down their throat in front of the whole team.
Only TWO guys on this team improved this year----Stephen Drew and Webbie (and even Webbie was not an all-star in September). Young looked better in the second half, and I guess we can hope that's the Young we'll see next year from the beginning.
The Eckstein experiment was an abject failure--he's an absolutely horrible ballplayer....as was the Adam Dunn experiment. If we were willing to sell the farm to go get a big bat in right field, why didn't we just keep Troy Glaus a few years ago?
The biggest mistake this team made was giving huge contracts to Byrnes and Young. Byrnes may be the next Russ Ortiz contract....Young better perform like he did in the second half, and Haren better stop with the second half pedestrian performances (it's become his modus operendi).
They need to get RID of Tracy and Eckstein, move Reynolds to 2nd (where he hopefully won't make 35 errors), move Dunn to 1B (assuming they resign him), give Upton another shot at RF,
and go get a big fvcking bat for 3B that's also a hoover. I'm PRETTY sure Reynolds lost us more games with his glove than he won with his bat.
Webb
Haren
Scherzer
Johnson (if he's willing to come back @ $5 mil)
Petit/Davis
Not a bad rotation....but we'll have huge offensive holes in LF, 2B, 1B and RF unless something changes dramatically in the offseason.