Looks like someone forget this is baseball instead of football or basketball.knoxtom said:
Do you want a list of the misses? Do you want the 1.1 misses, the top two rounds and already gone misses, the bullpen misses, the free agent misses, or all of the above? It's easy to cherry pick a few hits, its even easier to pick top end misses with this guy.
Ho. Lee. Chit. A year before the WS. Just brutally moronic.knoxtom said:So let's look at those...Quote:
Luhnow has...
- Drafted Carlos Correa, one of the best under 23 in the game.
- Drafted Lance McCullers Jr, who's flashed 1/2 type stuff in his short career.
- Drafted Preston Tucker and Tyler White who look like they will be above average hitters in their prime.
- Plucked Collin McHugh off the scrap heap.
- Still has the #3 ranked farm system according to John Sickels (even after trading all that talent last year for the playoff run)
- Signed Jose Altuve to one of the most team friendly deals in the league.
- Traded Brett Myers for Chris Devenski, who appears to have BOR stuff and at least be a good bullpen arm.
- Plucked Will Harris off waivers (he's been an absolute workhorse in the pen).
- This: http://www.sportingcharts.com/mlb/stats/mlb-cost-per-win-by-season/2015/
- Built the team that took the World Series champs to 1 damn out away from elimination.
But by all means. Losenow sucks. He's obviously a moron who needs to be replaced.
Correa is a nice player, but Lunhow also drafted Appel and Brady Aiken with the 1.1 One for three on number ones overall is awful, especially when the consensus number one in those drafts was better. Correa has worked out nicely.
McCullers is nice but he has 20 games under his belt and shoulder problems. Don.t make him into Clemens yet
Tucker is in the minors after going for .170, Tyler is hitting .230. Both are very negative defensive players with Tucker being historically bad defensively.
McHugh had a good year last year but would you really trust him in a playoff game? ERA sits around 5 right now.
The farm system will be dropped in the new rankings. Also, if you had the highest number of high picks in the history of the game wouldn't you expect to have a decent farm system? In fact, shouldn't it be much higher than it is?
Altuve's contract was right where it should have been, he has outplayed it
Devenski will be back in the minors soon enough, he is not special
Will harris has played great
And let's not forget these stellar decisions...
Scott Kazmir
Outright release of JD Martinez, you know the 38 homer, 100 rbi, gold glove runner up
Giles trade
Gomez trade
Deshields released
Foltynewicz for Gattis
Marisnick on the team (wouldn't you rather have Deshields in that role or any other player in the history of the game?)
Valbuena still plays
The backup catcher situation
The first base situation
Hate to break it to you all, but this is a BAD team. 3 guys hit over .240. Not a lot of pop, huge strikeout numbers, horrible baserunning, bad pitching, horrible defense. Clueless team that is being taught stats win games. Masters of the runners in scoring position, less than 2 outs strikeout.
