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Originally Posted by Why Not?
I certainly don't disagree with the previous few posts, and there is certainly no acceptable reason for an MLB team to be on pace to win 47 games or whatever it is, but there are a few other factors as well.
A. Although it shouldn't be close to this bad, we knew they were in for a fall once some of the big guys left via free agency. The chances of having pipeline replacements right at the exact time was very slim(not having them anywhere near at all is a problem).
B. Ventura's death and the curious case of WTF happened to Danny Duffy?
C. I fear we may have seen the best of Salvador Perez come and gone. That guy was rode like a rented mule for years and it looks like that took a toll on him(this year could be an outlier)
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Having some holes is fine, not finding a worthwhile draft pick starting in the Christian Colon year is really unacceptable.
We're really talking about 7 years of not finding a good major league player in the draft when some of those picks were top 10, this narrative they are spinning of trading their prospects...those guys never amounted to much by the way except Manea I guess. Or the narrative of "we drafted lower so this is what happens" actually no, no it's not. The Yankees rebuilt their farm system without ever picking top 10.
This is why I will take everything Moore does in the draft with a grain of salt, he hasn't found shit in 7 years nor have they really ever been able to develop pitchers. This team had something like 10 arms that were well thought of at 1 time and none of them developed into anything.