Green deal alive again

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Nice to know Diamondbacks fans are devoted. Why wait until we lose 112 games in a year? Why not hop off the bandwagon now? It's been three whole years since we won the World Series, after all.

Honestly, I bet if we traded Chad Tracy for Ben Sheets half of you would bitch about the fact that his k/bb ratio drops every second half and he's arbitration eligible next year and we'll never be able to afford to re-sign him, and Tracy is the next Wade Boggs after all.

I just don't understand the pessimism at us trying to improve. We sucked last year, and we're trying to get better. Let new management put the team together as best it can and wait on the season and quit assuming the world is coming to an end, for crissakes.

Oh yeah, I forgot--Conor Jackson and Carlos Quentin are both definite 30/100 guys within the next two years just like every other good AA corner outfielder in history, so we don't need a right fielder.

Yeah, I think that the pessimisim is really disheartening considering all of the great things this franchise has done in a very short time. However, it is sad to see that after a couple years of absolutely nothing prospect-wise, we build up a nice supply and just as they are about to contribute to the team we block the door with long contracts. Im not worried about the salaries we are giving some of these guys, right now it stands at about $60M (in comparison to $80M Opening Day 2004), but I thought that our farm team was going to have a real impact for the Diamondbacks. Now it seems like this new direction management is heading in just isnt very clear. It could end up working out, but its just such a strange heading these guys are going in.

 

[moviegeekjn]

but they still don't have to throw so darn much money at guys on the downside of their careers and sign them for 3-4 years. That means 2009 before we can start building a genuinely competitive team.

Exactly ... the Dbacks are structuring for almost guaranteed mediocrity for the next 3 years minimum. It's already affected where I'm putting more time and money into the coming season--looking at the out of town schedule, I'm putting prioritites on away trips to see Bo-Sox-Yanks and Cards-Cubs rivalry series.