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Originally Posted by Mecca
The more this plays out the more I think DM is a bumbling stooge that lucked into a championship because he had years of high picks from unintentionally tanking.
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Of course it was luck. Sorta.
I mean he had a super bullpen before super bullpens were cool. And then teams went about trying to purchase or even trade for pieces to build super bullpens of their own.
But you CAN'T. You just kinda fall into stuff like that because reliever volatility makes that sort of thing impossible. The idea that there is any amount of money or trade capital you can throw at the market to get a bullpen that pitched like that set of !@#$ing cyborgs pitched for a couple of years is laughable.
Just as laughable as the notion that DM set out to
build a bullpen like that. It just sorta happened when a 10th round pick, a cheap international flier and a failed starter went OFF for 24 months. The bullpen was a happy accident. Most truly excellent bullpens are. Because there's just so little consistency/predictability in bullpen performance.
Now where he does deserve a ton of credit was his realization in '14 and '15 that he HAD a super bullpen and he needs to do things to capitalize on that. Y'all don't win the championship without Cueto and Zobrist; Moore deserves a ton of credit for those decisions.