Why the freak do we want Todd Frazier?
How about we simply trade our prospects for a closer? I really DGAF about anything beyond 2018. Win a freaking WS now and you can be a 100+ loss team in 2019 for all I care.
I'm so freaking tired of knowing EXACTLY what the problem is and doing NOTHING to fix it. Trade away Fedde and Robles, get the bullpen you actually need, and stop worrying about the 2021 roster.
Because smart organizations aren't knee-jerk and completely wreckless the way fans like you want them to be. How many people, probably including you, would've said we need to trade a top prospect to replace Zimmerman with someone at 1B this offseason? We have the best record in baseball. We have a bullpen full of guys this organization likes and believes in, just like they believed Zimmerman could bounce back like this. We'll see what needs to be done as the season progresses. Trading away future center pieces of the organization right now is foolish.
There is urgency to win now, as there has been since 2012, but there is no need to mortgage the future entirely. You can act with balance on winning now while protecting the future. Rizzo has done that 5 years running now, and that is the plan going forward. I expect this franchise to continue to compete year in and year out and retool each offseason. We have Max and Strasburg locked up for a long-time and Roark and Ross also controlled. We'll have to retool around Turner in the lineup down the road with questions surrounding if we can extend Harper, what the future holds for Murphy, can Zimmerman continue this resurgence into his mid-30s, etc.
