OFF SEASON MOVES ????

[grampahol]

Kevin, you've watched baseball enough over the years to know that sometimes, even more than sometimes a player can get drafted really low like in the 43rd round and nobody even knows their name or anything else about them and suddenly that same player is in the running for league mvp at 34 years old. The window for success in baseball seems to stay open far longer in baseball than in football. 

Now I have little to no confidence in Price, but strange things happen in baseball that just don't typically happen in football. The easiest thing in the world to do is to place all the blame for the teams woes on the manager, but if nobody on the team can hit over 270 consistently and none of the pitchers can have an era under 3.xx consistently no manager is going to turn them into contenders.
We know that Jokety screwed the pooch a few years back with the huge contracts for Votto, Baily and Bruce, BP and others only to be forced to trade away the core in order to just make payroll. 
Anyway, I'm confident that this team will likely remain at the bottom part of the standings for the foreseeable future, but the minor leagues will produce enough quality players to put us back in contention in my lifetime. Price won't, like Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis live forever, but he did come along as manager right as Jokety's plan unraveled which really left him with very very little to work with. I seriously doubt that any manager, dead alive or anything in between could have had the 2016 team in contention for anything other than getting high draft picks in 2017.