Correct, I guess I should've been more specific to the baseball ops side of things. There is no real plan there because the main theme is about cost-cutting not about winning games.
Wait...you mean changing virtually nothing other than the manager didn't cause wild changes to the way the organization operates?
I'm shocked sir. Shocked I say!
Also...the answer is obviously Rocco. You should follow along better.
This is a good article and what I appreciate being pointed out is that the team seems to recognize that they don't play defense at a high enough level but their actions over the last 9 months have been the polar opposite of a team trying to fix that problem!
We added a bunch of corner IF/OF types with limited mobility. We have a sketchy middle infield. Almost zero team speed. And, maybe worst of all, a bunch of guys that have been moved around that dont' appear to be very good at being moved around.
The only thing that might have actually belonged on this list is the Pohalds selling the team.
Maybe we'll be so bad that they'll bail? Can one dare to dream?
Waddle and Pittman are pretty similar players the last three years. And Waddle has had Tua most of that time while Pittman was playing with the corpse of Matt Ryan, a literal grandfather, and Gardner Minshew through most of it.
I see those dudes as pretty similar. Waddle busted into the league like a rockstar, but he's been pretty middling for awhile now.
A few guys I like:
Jihad Ward and DJ Wonnum both know the defense and likely come cheap.
AJ Epenesa is a solid rotation guy.
Greg Dortch or Jahan Dotson at WR
I thought, for a guy that had never played there before, that he handled it pretty well. An offseason of being that guy, figuring out protections, etc. and maybe we have that guy.
It does mean we are perilously thin at OL depth then.
Right. Allen was hot garbage against the run but the man did get an interior push. At this point it feels like Smith is back at safety and this team is investing a lot of this draft at DT with positions like RB, C, WR, CB, and (hopefully) LB.