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Originally Posted by Andrew
I am not a fan of Atkins as previously stated he probably should be gone
But we have made the playoffs quite a bit recently. Some years good teams miss. We had some injuries. We changed lots of coaches (they can go stale). Prospects are coming up slowly. Initially we traded a bunch not so much recently.
One bad year doesn't ruin a team they have a chance his year. Lots of up and downs. Vlad amd bo still young we have a solid rotation and some other pieces.
The rest of off-season will be interesting. I will be thrilled if they sign vlad and a few others and go on a run. It's hard to compete against these high spending teams. We have a lot of flexibility in next couple years for payroll it's not that bad. Atkins has been smart with long term contracrs
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Man, you must be one of the happiest people in the world. Glass half full!
Anyway, I disagree with a lot of what you mentioned, personally. Atkins hasn't been terrible, but I'd rate him pretty bad generally. He locked in Springer to a long term deal. But he can't sign Vlad or Bo. With their payroll they should've done way more over the Atkins tenure. Rotation and Bullpen generally I'd give a very good grade most years - they've done a generally good job there. Drafting, terrible. Trades, picking guys who outperformed, they've done alright, but nobody truly groundbreaking like AA picking up Bautista. Instead they've done IKF who overperformed but wasn't an impact player. Having financial flexibility is great but they've missed signing their stars and haven't drafted well enough. Tough position to be.