10-01-2023, 01:41 PM
(10-01-2023, 09:44 AM)bengalfan74 Wrote: That's the whole key if they seriously are gonna try and contend next season. It's really amazing they stayed in the hunt with the crew they had this season.
We need a true Ace, 15 game winner+ 3.something ERA, a stopper. We need another top starter, 12 game winner+ high 3's ERA, inning eater. We can't go on with starters averaging 4 innings, burns up the bullpen. See Diaz getting rocked to end this season.
I think the young starters would be just fine if they could actually stay in the rotation.
Their health has been volatile at best.
They need at least one veteran starter, preferably two to stabilize.
They won't, but if the organization signed two good vet starters int he offseason, they'd become instant contenders. I'm thinking like Sonny Gray and Blake Snell. Guys who would be costly, but not necessarily long-term.
They have a laughably low payroll. It could be done easily. One day the clowns that own this team will realize what the Browns and Blackburns did: When you spend money to build a good team, people want to spend money to support them. Stop bitching about people not coming to games when there's no real effort on ownership's end to boost the product. As with the Bengals, the large amount of cheap talent early int heir careers affords them the opportunity to spend and enhance.
I anticipate that the mantra of the offseason will be: "Follow the Plan", second only to "New York and San Diego Spent Big and Lost".
