Yesterday, 10:33 AM
There are a few things about this that make me uncomfortable.
First, if we have Matt McClain, who will very likely be our starting 2B, then why are we adding a 2B so similar to the one we just traded off? Is McClain not recovering as well as we would hope? Is there another nasty surprise on deck? Think back to the Candelario signing. Nobody understood why they signed an infielder while they were hurting for OFs. Then we find out about the Marte PED suspension. Does the team have some unpleasant news that they don't want to disclose until they have to?
Second issue for me here is the potential continuation of shifting infielders to the OF. They did it with Steer, they tried with CES. May still. I think McClain took reps in center during the fall league. If McClain is 100 percent healthy and they shift him to center to make room for Lux, then I dunno what to say about this ownership group. It's a move that reeks of being extraordinarily cheap. Matt might be a good OF, but why? The payroll is a joke. There's zero reason they couldn't afford an outfielder better than what Lux will bring to the plate without playing musical chairs with the lineup. We wouldn't be talking Soto or Teoscar here, lol.
Lastly, I think it cements what this organization will always be under Bob and crew: painfully cheap with no desire to win.
The Francona signing was an early sign that things may have changed. When it happened, I worried that Bob brought Tito in due to his success with tiny payrolls in Cleveland. It didn't make a lot of sense to me that Francona would give up a comfortable (and possibly much needed for health purposes) retirement without some commitment from ownership to be a bit more aggressive. Maybe he just doesn't care and needs to be around the game. Even so, I'd think he'd want to do it in a place with actual resources as opposed to a declining baseball once-was organization like Cincinnati.
I guess time will tell.
First, if we have Matt McClain, who will very likely be our starting 2B, then why are we adding a 2B so similar to the one we just traded off? Is McClain not recovering as well as we would hope? Is there another nasty surprise on deck? Think back to the Candelario signing. Nobody understood why they signed an infielder while they were hurting for OFs. Then we find out about the Marte PED suspension. Does the team have some unpleasant news that they don't want to disclose until they have to?
Second issue for me here is the potential continuation of shifting infielders to the OF. They did it with Steer, they tried with CES. May still. I think McClain took reps in center during the fall league. If McClain is 100 percent healthy and they shift him to center to make room for Lux, then I dunno what to say about this ownership group. It's a move that reeks of being extraordinarily cheap. Matt might be a good OF, but why? The payroll is a joke. There's zero reason they couldn't afford an outfielder better than what Lux will bring to the plate without playing musical chairs with the lineup. We wouldn't be talking Soto or Teoscar here, lol.
Lastly, I think it cements what this organization will always be under Bob and crew: painfully cheap with no desire to win.
The Francona signing was an early sign that things may have changed. When it happened, I worried that Bob brought Tito in due to his success with tiny payrolls in Cleveland. It didn't make a lot of sense to me that Francona would give up a comfortable (and possibly much needed for health purposes) retirement without some commitment from ownership to be a bit more aggressive. Maybe he just doesn't care and needs to be around the game. Even so, I'd think he'd want to do it in a place with actual resources as opposed to a declining baseball once-was organization like Cincinnati.
I guess time will tell.
