It's Jerry's job to know who can make our team better and go get them. He came up short and the holes were pretty obvious going into the season- not to mention for the last two seasons when he also chose to wait and not add readily available talent that could help when the team came together.Seattle or Bust wrote: ↑Sat May 14, 2022 4:51 pmTo be fair, looks like Jerry made the right move in not offering major contracts to Schwarber, Marte, Semien, Bryant, Story, Baez, Correa, Seager... they've all been really bad and we'd be hating him for spending that money. The only guy he maybe whiffed on not landing is Seiya, but even he has returned to earth after a hot start.
You can make an argument for Jerry going hard after a Freeman or Castellanos to DH, but it's pretty clear their minds were set on joining some very established rosters... the odds of them coming here to DH at this stage in their careers was pretty small.
The gem of the current FA class has been Rizzo and not one person here wanted him.
Good news is they've got a lot of money to spend still and it's not locked up in 8 years of Semien, Story or Bryant.
Dipoto has information available to him and a team of nerds crunching numbers. It's his job to know what the team needs and the players that could help.
It's not our job to be right predicting how players will do here. It's Dipotos job.
Although even a low production 2022 Schwarber, for example, represents a .300 OPS improvement on paper over the guys like Toro and Kelenic that eventually took the at bats he would have had.
And, yes, Schwarber cost too much. Dtrain mentioned Josh Bell who looks like he would have been a big upgrade.
If Dipoto exhausted every avenue, ok then. If he called it good because he didn't think any of them represented an upgrade over the guys he brought up from the minors, it's on him.
I still think we could win well over 90 games, and likely come up just short of the playoffs, again. It's just glaringly obvious that Dipoto didn't do enough to help the team succeed, especially given how the competition improved their teams.