Around The Majors 2019

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He couldn't possibly be looking to acquire anyone to delay their prospects' timelines? Singer has an ERA over 5 in 7 starts since being promoted to AA, Kowar has made 4 AA starts, and Lynch and Bubic are still in A+. Glenn Sparkman (yes, who???) is in their rotation right now, and their AAA rotation consists of great prospects like Eric Skoglund (6.51 ERA) and Foster Griffin (7.38 ERA). Jake Kalish may be their best Pitcher currently in Omaha.

Montgomery certainly isn't good, but he'll serve the same purpose Harang and others did when we were rebuilding - you run him out there and hope he gives you enough innings that he keeps you from rushing the prospects.

They could effectively accomplish the same thing by signing some replacement player that is still a free agent or just calling up some more of their triple A filler. Montgomery might be marginally better than one of those guys, but who the hell cares when you're 30 games under .500?

One of the beauties of being a terrible baseball team is that you aren't forced to do anything. You don't have to rush your prospects if you don't want to. You can just call up the next warm body and continue being terrible because, what's the difference?

Just go sign Boone Logan or AJ Ramos or Joaquin Benoit for the league minimum and get a future asset whenever you're gonna make a trade, however marginal he is.