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Originally Posted by ScareCrowe
I just don't understand the thought process behind wasting significant money on pitchers of the Lynn/Gibson caliber. If you can't call up a pitcher from the minors to put up innings with a 5+ ERA then your minor leagues are a miserable failure. Why not spend a little more to get something that you have a decent chance to get a quality performance out of & fill in the "replacement level" players from the minors for low salary. It's something they constantly do, like paying Corey Dickerson $5 million when he'd had an OPS in the low .700's for 2 seasons. You should have been able to use a minor leaguer for the minimum salary to post a sub .700 OPS & spent the remainder to get an actual good player.
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Cheap bullet catchers. That's all.
Grist for the mill; meat for the grinder. In a way it's a positive development in that they're NOT doing anything stupid to save Mozeliak's job in a short-term push for relevance.
No, they're all but acknowledging that the 2024 Cardinals aren't going to win anything and never were going to.
Now the counterpoint to that is if this team actually believed that, they'd trade Goldschmidt rather than enter into extension talks with him.
A combination of these two things really only yields one conclusion - they're just stupid. Or they think we are. Frankly it's probably a bit of both.