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ratboy
When are the dbacks going to face facts and rebuild?
goooooodiamondbacks
They have one of the youngest teams in the majors, how much more rebuilding can they do? The have their franchise player on a very team-friendly contract for a few more years. This is their time to go for it. They brought in the pitching to do it, but it’s just looked terrible! The injury to Pollock is a big one. They actually have a pretty nice core in Goldy, Pollock, Castillo, Lamb, Drury, and Peralta, and the back end of the bullpen is solid. It’s just not coming together right now.
As for O’Brien, put him in left with Tomas back in right and Peralta in CF. Drury at 2nd, Segura at SS. Losers here are Mr. 0-2 count Chris Owings and, unfortunately, Nick Ahmed. I LOVE watching Nick play shortstop, but the defensive drop off between Ahmed SS/Owings CF vs. O’Brien LF/Drury 2nd should be more than compensated for with the additional offense. There are 2 problems in Arizona right now: too many opposing homeruns, not enough timely hitting. Good defense doesn’t help either of those.
Phillies2017
The problem is that Dave Stewart doesn’t understand the value of low level prospects (including bonus money and draft picks). He’s exhibited this on at least 3 head scratching occasions and is setting this team up to be a perennial 3rd place team.
When are GMs going to learn that the huge offseason never works- citing 2012 Marlins, 2013 Jays, 2014 Mariners and Yankees, 2015 White Sox Red Sox and Padres. It just doesn’t work–
Its not about going all in- its about setting yourself up to compete while keeping the future in mind like the Cubs and Mariners did this past offseason.
RunDMC
Dbacks don’t need to rebuild. They have a lot of money to spend from a nice TV contract and some great contracts with controllable parts. And despite trading away some great prospects, they still have some nice pieces, like Cody Reed in A-ball, not to mention top prospects: Shipley, Bradley and O’Brien, among others. Supplement stars Goldy, Pollock, Greinke and Miller – after he rights the ship – and they will be there with SF & LAD. What’s more, they’ve avoided some bad contracts. Keep avoiding them and they should be competing for years.
chesteraarthur
Avoided bad contracts? They just gave a 32 yr old pitcher $206.5m. They also gave Tomas, what, like $70m?
chesteraarthur
That dbacks franchise is going to be fkd in a few years. Hope they win for their fans sake
chesteraarthur
So Tyson Ross probably has a trade value of ~0 atm.
SixFlagsMagicPadres
Pretty much.
The fact that he’s not even close to picking up a ball yet is pretty concerning. They should have traded him this past offseason.
chesteraarthur
Yeah, that’s what made me think that. He may not even be back by the time the trading deadline passes.
And yes! They absolutely should have. Dude has always had issues with injuries and his value was probably about as high as it’d ever get. Obviously, without knowing what offers SD got for him, it’s kinda hard to say they should have traded him. It’d be interesting to see what type of packages teams offered during the winter for him.
SixFlagsMagicPadres
Preller was probably looking for a pretty big return, something similar to the Shelby Miller trade. Yeah, I’m interested in seeing what teams were offering for him too.
AndThisGameBelongsToMySanDiegoPadres
He wasn’t going to get a similar return to Shelby Miller for Ross. For one, the Miller trade was a giant overpay to begin with. For two, Miller has one more year of control than Ross does. For three, Miller is a former top 10 prospect in all of baseball while Ross was once seen as a bust with the A’s. And finally, no team wants to get taken by the Padres. In their eyes we are the team that is supposed to get taken by others.
vinscully16
Shelby Miller’s problem is between his ears.
YKTD
DBacks cannot compete with LA and SF. The Shelby Miller trade was terrible and they would have been much better off holding their prospects and signing a proven Veteran FA starter, like Lackey or someone similar to a short term deal. They will need those prospects as trade bait in the future.