I haven't heard what his issue is that keeps him from catching, he can bat and run and act like he did when he played for the Cub's. Anybody know that the deal is?
He has been in the league 8 years.
It's all about pitch selection. Apparently he and the pitchers have trouble agreeing on what pitch to throw. When they shake him off the pitch clock is putting them in hurry up mode. I guess they complained enough to get him removed. They obviously don't have enough confidence in him to throw what he calls.
Problem is, they've seemingly run off the remaining guys that teach that philosophy.
Yeah there's a lot of strange with this one. Including Waino saying WC could catch his next start. Can't imagine Mo and Oli liking to hear that after they've just said he won't be catching for awhile. What a clusterF Mo and Oli have turned this year into. Starting with not getting any proven starting pitching over winter, to throwing TON under the bus, to now throwing WC under the same bus. I'll say this for WC, he's handled it much better than the brass has. But this has to be severely damaging their ability to get veterans to want to play here in the future.
Cluster F is a great way to put it. Completely on MO's shoulders too. He put Oli in the role. He fired Shildt. He put this pitching staff together. He freaked out about the price for Murphy to pivot to Contreras. That pivot cost them the budget for FA pitching help. Granted, MO's history of signing pitchers isn't exactly great. I think, what hopefully everyone is starting to see, is MO isn't really all that fantastic at his job. An he's been pretty pedestrian at it since Luhnow left.
True story. Season is about 40% over, team is hard to listen to or watch. I know we have been spoiled for about 20 years with the success, but man how they have fell.
Heck they have GM that you NEVER hear about. When the press talks to someone about possible trades it's MO not the guy that is the GM.
Keep hearing folks say they should trade Goldy. I haven't figured out what anybody would give for him in return and take on his contract. If you send him out you better be able get someone that can help. I ain't figured out who that would be right now but trading Goldy won't get enough of it.
So you see systematic issues, but earlier call me out on another topic why then? This is one of many reasons I did so.
Well, yeah...Goldy won't get enough. But Goldy, Flaherty, Montgomery (unless they think they can resign him, but given Boras is his agent they're never going to get a read), Hicks, Helsley, and possibly even Contreras and Arenado and then you've got something. Problem is, I have ZERO confidence in MO and his merry bunch of protractor carrying nerds to get quality returns that I hope they don't fire sale. Which I pretty much think they won't do. They'll do what they've always done under BDJ and MO, which is try to find as much low-hanging fruit as possible and hope it turns into a plump juicy treat. MO just isn't worth a damn at evaluating young talent, and that's a serious issue. The payroll is competitive. The product on the field isn't, in the second worst division in baseball. And it isn't going to change anytime soon if they stay the course. They view this as the anomaly. I hope it is, but personally I see it as the result of a steady decline and now they've reached a flatline of sorts.
Who do you guys think they can get that are any better than these mentioned here?
