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<blockquote data-quote="FollowTisdale" data-source="post: 1401279" data-attributes="member: 619279"><p>They've continued to have a top 10 farm system after Luhnow, and that's while picking at the back of the 1st round. It's just hard to draft the no-brainers when you're picking that low year after year.</p><p></p><p>This team was projected to win 88-89 games at the start of the year, and unfortunately, 84 wins and no playoffs (current ROS fangraphs projection) is within the standard deviation of that. </p><p></p><p>But the organization is fine. They need to oust Matheny, but other than that it's hard to really find faults. You could fault them for not having that 5 to 6 win guy, but again that's hard to do absent luck and drafting in the top 5 picks. You could fault them for some of the reliever contracts, but that's small potatoes, relatively. They have what seems like unlimited good starting pitching depth and a farm system that churns out competent, 2-3 win position players. They have close to $30MM in dead money leaving this offseason (Wainwright and Holland), so plenty of money to add one of those 5 to 6 win guys as a free agent and shoot right back into the 90 win projection range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FollowTisdale, post: 1401279, member: 619279"] They've continued to have a top 10 farm system after Luhnow, and that's while picking at the back of the 1st round. It's just hard to draft the no-brainers when you're picking that low year after year. This team was projected to win 88-89 games at the start of the year, and unfortunately, 84 wins and no playoffs (current ROS fangraphs projection) is within the standard deviation of that. But the organization is fine. They need to oust Matheny, but other than that it's hard to really find faults. You could fault them for not having that 5 to 6 win guy, but again that's hard to do absent luck and drafting in the top 5 picks. You could fault them for some of the reliever contracts, but that's small potatoes, relatively. They have what seems like unlimited good starting pitching depth and a farm system that churns out competent, 2-3 win position players. They have close to $30MM in dead money leaving this offseason (Wainwright and Holland), so plenty of money to add one of those 5 to 6 win guys as a free agent and shoot right back into the 90 win projection range. [/QUOTE]
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