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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Well, it was fun talking Cardinals with you all for the last almost 20 years, but I think I'll be taking a break from this bull**** for a while.
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Yeah - Lynn was a back of the rotation piece that on his face does no damage. Gibson, OTOH, is a trend.
It's now clear what they're going to do. "At least two starters" has been handled. And frankly, it's PREFERABLE to a lot of alternatives (i.e. giving Snell $28 million/season for 6 seasons to save his job while hamstringing his replacements).
These are 1-off guys who are likely to be gone by the time Mozeliak is replaced. They can absorb some bullets from the young arms. When it turns out that Graceffo/Hjerpe/McGreavy and the whole slew of mid/back of the rotation arms we've assembled in our system prove to be about as capable as Matz/Lynn/Gibson by 2025, at least you don't have many resources tied up in redundant arms and new leadership could potentially make something of the freed up resources.
And maybe by then one of the Hence/Roby higher upside arms can step in as a legit 2/3. Maybe Davis or Scott are looking like real OF options. Maybe Saggese has put himself in as a fixture at 2b that allows you to move Gorman over to 3b or full time DH and get leaner/younger still.
At least this demonstrates that MAYBE they understand that there's no 1 year path back to relevance and that we're looking at 3 years here.
Because there's something fairly scary about them signing a 31 yr old 'top of the rotation' arm for 6 years and pretending like that actually makes us matter.