Melancon to Nats
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 8:50 pm
12352437247078787970410 wrote: Everyone knows if you put a big amount of chips in and go for it (like KC, Baltimore, Cleveland) you're just mortgaging the future.
Stay small, pay little, never trade top prospects. Be happy with a pennant once a generation
The Pirates easily had the horses to win the division or the World Series last season. They just happened to play in the only division in baseball where the team ahead of them was better.
I think they had a team that could have won it each of the last two years as well. They just didn't.
I also think there is enough talent on this year's team to put them in the conversation. Too bad the talent's not performing. You can blame the FO for a bad offseason and a bad year in general, but if everyone is playing the way they are capable of playing or even in the ballpark of it, this a team that's a lot closer to the Cubs.
Excellent point Steve. I have been through a few more seasons like this in my 58 yrs rooting for the Bucs. It is not easy to accept that some of your major talent and team leaders are performing way below the level we fans are used to seeing.
I get the idea that guys like Cutch, Kang, Liriano should be hitting like .400 or hitting 50 HRs and driving in 100 runs each for them to have a good season. And pitching, we expect one starter to go 20 - 0 and win the Cy Young in both leagues.
But they have not been doing it. I have no idea what has happened to them. Skills decreasing? Injury not disclosed? Trouble off the field? What?
This is a game and things like this will happen. As most of you folks remember the 20 yrs of losing. The Bucs made bad decisions during those years. Bad draft, bad trade of a star when they had one, bad signing of FA, bad trade for a washed up vet. I think we saw some of that this off season.
Yet the team is set to have a big comeback next season because they have drafted well in the recent past, they have signed a couple good FA (most likely most will be gone this off season) and they still have some guys in the lower minors that will take care of many seasons ahead when today's stars are long gone.
No matter how hard the team try on the field, no matter how hard we fans root them on, no matter how much analysis the media makes and we fans do on message boards, there is still the fact that they won't win every game. At least this team of 2016 although very disappointing do show some big time possibility for 2017 and beyond.
So let's sit back, toss down a few more beers, relax and think about that stock of youngsters that will propel this team into the playoffs and hopefully the WS in the near future.
Stay small, pay little, never trade top prospects. Be happy with a pennant once a generation
The Pirates easily had the horses to win the division or the World Series last season. They just happened to play in the only division in baseball where the team ahead of them was better.
I think they had a team that could have won it each of the last two years as well. They just didn't.
I also think there is enough talent on this year's team to put them in the conversation. Too bad the talent's not performing. You can blame the FO for a bad offseason and a bad year in general, but if everyone is playing the way they are capable of playing or even in the ballpark of it, this a team that's a lot closer to the Cubs.
Excellent point Steve. I have been through a few more seasons like this in my 58 yrs rooting for the Bucs. It is not easy to accept that some of your major talent and team leaders are performing way below the level we fans are used to seeing.
I get the idea that guys like Cutch, Kang, Liriano should be hitting like .400 or hitting 50 HRs and driving in 100 runs each for them to have a good season. And pitching, we expect one starter to go 20 - 0 and win the Cy Young in both leagues.
But they have not been doing it. I have no idea what has happened to them. Skills decreasing? Injury not disclosed? Trouble off the field? What?
This is a game and things like this will happen. As most of you folks remember the 20 yrs of losing. The Bucs made bad decisions during those years. Bad draft, bad trade of a star when they had one, bad signing of FA, bad trade for a washed up vet. I think we saw some of that this off season.
Yet the team is set to have a big comeback next season because they have drafted well in the recent past, they have signed a couple good FA (most likely most will be gone this off season) and they still have some guys in the lower minors that will take care of many seasons ahead when today's stars are long gone.
No matter how hard the team try on the field, no matter how hard we fans root them on, no matter how much analysis the media makes and we fans do on message boards, there is still the fact that they won't win every game. At least this team of 2016 although very disappointing do show some big time possibility for 2017 and beyond.
So let's sit back, toss down a few more beers, relax and think about that stock of youngsters that will propel this team into the playoffs and hopefully the WS in the near future.