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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
He said his job is to make Dewitt money. He's putting huge piles of cash in Dewitt's pockets. He's going no where.
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This is what happens when your organization targets 90 wins. That's their
goal.
There's no rope there at all. When you get 3 win Goldschmidt instead of 5 win Goldschmidt, then your entire starting staff fails to show, you end up with an 85 win team in pretty short order. And that's IF you finally figure out a solution to the rotation rather than just continue to ride flagging pitching.
This is why championship teams don't sit there thinking "eh, we're fine at 90 wins..." - no, they go trade for Gerrit Cole. Or they sign JD Martinez. They don't just target the minimum of what they need to do to make the post-season; they give themselves room for that potential stumble so they can either pull past it or flat out exceed it.
The Cardinals simply aren't as committed as the teams that are actually winning things right now.