I'm on the less cynical side of this. I think the Lerners believed Bowden when he said he could field a competitive team on the cheap. Between Bowden and the snake oil salesman Kasten, I feel they got an assload of bad advice. Of course, they chose to follow that bad advice so they're culpable and ultimately responsible for this team losing more games in three years than any other team in the history of the world. That situation was inexcusable and they're responsible for that.
But I'm hopeful they've learned and will spend on payroll when the time comes. I'm not so concerned with payroll now, but when it comes time to extend Zim, Zim2, Strasburg, Harper, etc., that's when they'll really have to pony up. Can only wait and see at this point.
When push comes to shove, I hope they prove people wrong.
agree to disagree.
they should be extending our core guys but at the same time looking to improve by going outside the system. it was a nice start with werth (despite his poor offensive numbers this year), but we need more moves.
