I have a strange feeling that there is something management knows about our pitching staff. Why else have all of the rumors of adding another arm.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have another young, cost controlled arm like Danny Salazar who has all the potential in the world especially come playoff time. It's not a bad statedgy to add another arm but if it takes Soler then we need a center fielder. I also think that Baez will be a huge asset to the team as a young zobrist!
They know more than I do I trust them to do what's best!
What do you think? Salazar or keep Soler or Baez?
I don't think that they specifically know of anything wrong with the pitching staff. I think that they're just trying to be cautious for a few reasons. For one our pitching staff was pretty healthy over the course of last season, so I can see them wanting to hedge their bets by making sure they're covered in the event something should happen as far as injury, ineffectiveness, or something else unforseen. Arrieta did have a big bump up in innings pitched, so the can be one reason for their wanting to be cautious. Also while I think they believe that Hendricks will continue to develop into a steady and solid pitcher, Hammel showed us last year that in the second half he tends to fall off some, so we will likely need another pitcher for that reason. They also are looking at the makeup of our team, and we have a slew of young hitters that look to be real good for a number of years, they likely would like to add some young pitching to go along with them to keep up with that youth instead of having to buy veteran pitching year after year. Personally I'd like to see us add another young type of cost controlled pitcher and to move Hammel out. I just don't trust him to hold up injury free all year, and to be effective all year. I really see Warren becoming a starter for us at some point next season, and Hammel out of the rotation. I really like this Warren guy, he's young and cost controlled, and he seems to be a pretty effective pitcher that I think will be really good when Bosio gets hands on him. but all in all we need to trade Hammel, save some cash there, and get us a good cost controlled young starter in a trade.
I'd actually love to see us try to land Dylan Bundy. He was extremely highly ranked a few years back, but injuries have kept him out the past two seasons. I don't think it would cost nearly what it once would have to get him, but still we'd lose some good talent from the farm system. Bring him over, put him in the pen for a year to rebuild his arm strength, and let Warren go into the rotation, then the following season put Bundy back into the rotation. We can probably get Bundy for a package of Hammel, Edwards and Voglebach. We can add a player if needed, but that's not really too much to give, and it would shed us of Hammel's salary. It helps them by adding a veteran arm to the rotation, a good promising arm to the pen, that could start as well, and a young, promising first baseman that actually can hit, for a guy who's got a lot of promise, but had some injury issues. It gives us a promising guuy, that if we can get healthy can be similar in impact to what Arrieta is, if not more, or he could be nothing more than a promising kid derailed by arm issues before his career even took off.
I'm sure I'll get bashed for saying i wanted Bundy for a number of reasons, but I really don't thinnk its that far fetched, or it's just late and i'm wishful thinking, who knows right now, lol.
