Quote Originally Posted by striker42 View Post
Staying out of FA RPs is often the right move. But again, we have no idea who was on the trade market and what the prices were. It makes answering the question of "who should we have gone after" completely impossible. I could come up with a list of relievers and the response would be "There's nothing showing that guy was available." It's a pointless exercise.

Since we don't have eyes on that, all we can do is look at results over time and see how AA does addressing needs over the course of several offseasons.

AA failed to improve the pitching staff last offseason. That's not in doubt. Whether it was his fault or just the way the market worked out is a different question.
so your criticism is that AA didn't maybe trade for guys that may or may not have been available. your criticism is based on absolutely nothing but total speculation. and you sincerely don't see how dumb that is?

i'm sure AA was relying on organic improvement from the young staff and staying out of the RP mess until it was more settled and he could get guys in trades on shorter deals. it's worked out pretty nicely.