7 hours ago, Jeff Fletcher said:
I don’t know if anyone addressed this in the next four pages, but this is all still related to trying to climb out of the farm system hole.
If you aren’t producing your own players, you take what you get from other teams. And they are often old, broken or both.
JC Ramírez, Blake Wood, Parker Bridwell... all acquired for nothing because the Angels were desperate to fill holes.
Guess what: all broken.
You cant produce your own everyday players and you can’t pay for prime free agents (because you spent it all on Pujols, Hamilton, which also cost you draft picks), so who is left?
Espinosa, Valbuena, Cozart, Kinsler, David Murphy, Yunel Escobar, Matt Joyce.
All have something wrong with them because the players who don’t a) require good prospects to acquire or b) cost a lot of money.
Oh, and the reason you all hate Scioscia is because he never plays his young players, but it’s maybe because those young players are no good and he knows it.
It all goes back to a bad farm system.