03-30-2019, 04:18 AM
As I posted in another thread on this sorry state of affairs in San Francisco, the Giants can say they aren’t rebuilding all they want, but whether they like it or not, they are. They could have been proactive to address or reactive. They chose the latter.
The stupidly has already been baked in. They should have listened to the fan base two years ago, who was telling them they had to rebuild then. The only thing putting off rebuilding does is insure the rot goes deeper, takes longer to remove, which also extends how long there is no foundation to start building again.
They probably cost themselves at least one and possibly two major prospects by not trading Bumgarner two years ago. Maybe the Giants have Miguel Andujar at 3B and Machado is playing 3B for the Yankees now, had they done that. Posey too should have been dealt.
The fan base isn’t dumb. We saw the catastrophically bad farm system results in 2017. We saw the payroll obligations. It didn’t take a PhD in statistics to understand the situation.
The stupidly has already been baked in. They should have listened to the fan base two years ago, who was telling them they had to rebuild then. The only thing putting off rebuilding does is insure the rot goes deeper, takes longer to remove, which also extends how long there is no foundation to start building again.
They probably cost themselves at least one and possibly two major prospects by not trading Bumgarner two years ago. Maybe the Giants have Miguel Andujar at 3B and Machado is playing 3B for the Yankees now, had they done that. Posey too should have been dealt.
The fan base isn’t dumb. We saw the catastrophically bad farm system results in 2017. We saw the payroll obligations. It didn’t take a PhD in statistics to understand the situation.