Being a "former top prospect" will keep you from completely falling off the face of the earth, and someone will give you another shot. Someone will give you a minor league roster spot or an NRI to spring training to see if you can capture whatever it was that got you noticed to begin with.
It won't help bring up your trade value as a big league player.
You know - the one thing that I want to give Getz credit for is that "Project Birmingham" experiment he did 2 years ago.
I'm a huge critic of the Sox's minor league development program basically treating the minors like a warehouse rather than a factory... but that Project Birmingham thing, to me, was the right approach. Identify things to work on during games, then shift your focus to developing your game through deliberate practice and training.
But generally, I completely agree with you on this quoted portion.
Ha.
It's not like putting wilson in there was a bad move or anything (he's actually been good), but the bullshit quote to try to justify it and make excuses like thisil is just embarrassing.
By my calculation, the Sox should lose the next 2 before winning one more.
Started the season by losing 4, winning 1.
Then lost 5, won 1.
Then lost 6, won 1.
They've now lost the next 5, so we have 2 more to go.