Originally Posted by cabletech94:
Is it too early to start thinking about next years #1 pick? We can’t be too far from that by now. ****.
Unfortunately for us the Arizona Diamondbacks have been having a historically horrific season.
But — we’ve gone 7-26 since June 4th, so perhaps there’s hope (and yet, somehow, Arizona has done worse).
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Originally Posted by petegz28:
This team went to 2 and won 1 World Series in spite of both Yost and Moore. Moore lucked into H-D-H and that's plain and simple. His pitching drafts, signings, trades, etc. have been complete and total ass.
And I say this as I watch the leadoff walk score.
He did good with Hos and Moose, etc. but let's face it, if it was not for that Pen and particularly Davis, we don't win a World Series or even go to one.
The Royals had a five-year period where they didn’t draft well enough and also didn’t hit on much in Latin America despite spending consistently there. (2011-2015).
But I can’t stand and won’t sit silently when people claim 14 and 15 were all luck.
Any championship team is going to experience some luck. So yes, there was luck.
But go look at those rosters. Home grown talent and centerpiece players up and down the roster. Key stars acquired via canny trades (Escobar, Cain, Shields, Davis, Cueto, Zobrist). A GM that didn’t sit on his hands when the opportunity to get the missing pieces popped up.
Moore and the front office can have:
1) absolutely succeeded with Wave 1
2) failed with Wave 2
3) have some big questions about their approach to Wave 3 and it’s likelihood of success.
Those things aren’t mutually exclusive. And they don’t mean that everything sucks.
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