10-08-2019, 11:18 AM
(10-01-2019, 05:30 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: 5. You said the Reds should keep looking for players on the cheap, but that just leads to more losing seasons, which is what I thought you wanted to avoid with this whole rant. You want to open up $50m in payroll, but not spend it on anybody good because you don't want $100m contracts being offered. Your plan would end up with the Reds having an ~$80-90m payroll, and Bob C banking tens of millions while the Reds win about 50 or 60 games. You need good players to win games, good players cost money or prospects. You don't want to spend the former, and the Reds don't have many of the latter.
This.
If you keep dumping every player worthy of a good contract you end up being a consistent 90 loss farm team for the rest of the league.
I agree that we should trade Votto if we could, but it is not going to happen. So people like you who obsess over Votto and claim we can never win with him might as well start looking for another team to root for. His contract is a problem, but it will not make it impossible for us to win.
