If I was to pretend to be smart enough to get into AA's mind, his train of thinking must be this in my mind.
The idea was to to improve this offseason with pitching, feel somewhat comfortable that playoffs might be a possibility. You go after Josh Johnson and out of nowhere, Jose Reyes falls into your lap along with Mark Buehurle. You sign arguably the best contract of the offseason in bringing on Melky Cabrera and now you're looking at a really good team. He's talked about having a Jose Bautista might speed along the process at some point. Well you've got one of the best bats in baseball who's going to be leave a huge hole when he's done. If you think Dickey pushes you over the hump and you can win a world series the next 3-4 years, you go for it. You're going to have a high 1st round pick again this season and the years following to keep stockpiling young talent.
I just have to much baseball on the mind and am trying to understand AA in all of this. It's exciting at least, let's see what happens tomorrow
|