2025-2026 offseason thread

[Southcack77]

There was a measure of arrogance in the manner that Anthopoulos approached last off-season. Arcia ran out of horseshoes and we were left with the worst hitter in MLB manning the SS position. Things maybe look different if Profar doesn't get caught sniffing metaphorical performance enhancing glue and there isn't the avalanche of pitching injuries, but a lot of significant assumptions were made and there was no back-up plan when one was clearly needed.

could have?

 

[Southcack77]

100%. You could make a strong argument that the best allocation of the remaining resources should be spent exclusively on pitching

to some degree the die is cast with the rotation and the rest of the team's injury risk.

They put together their team and now they got to live with it.

I do think it's obvious they need at least one SP of average or better quality, but there just isn't a realistic way of protecting themselves from injuries to everybody.

When that happens it just has to hinge on the farm and whatever you can put together from trades or the waiver wire.