People up in arms about what sports teams call themselves one way or their other need to direct their energy to something useful.
That being said Native imagery is fuckin wack dude.
I would like to go on record that I hate the idea of giving Bauer or Springer enormous contracts. In my mind they already missed the opportunities to add huge contracts where it made sense.
Machado was a fuck up. Wheeler was a fuck up. Bigger fuck up still was not targeting haper instead. These two though? Meh.
It’s incredibly unlikely that you would be comfortable going into 2021 with Dane Dunning as your 3rd starter.
hes thrown like 80 innings over two years and probably won’t get past like 140 this year.
He’s probably going to be a solid piece at some point, but they don’t have time to wait around and find out and there’s 10 other guys who could be just as good
6 years of control means almost nothing when
a: there is zero track record of success
b: at least two of those years will be spent ramping up durability.
Building a team you can project out to 95 regular season wins is almost literally all you can do and hope for the best in the playoffs.
The Dodgers odds of winning that World Series against a team with a payroll half that of the White Sox was still only a little better than a coin flip.
People are burned by 2015, which is fair, but fail to consider the list of good major league players in this core is literally already twice as long as the one they had then, and likely to got a fair bit longer.
I really think this is all they NEED to do. Sure I’d love a big a sexy name, but I truly believe at this point all they need are competent major leaguers that prevent you from relying on, well..... Dane Dunning.