It could be a grim post-trade apocalypse pitching staff for sure. I made a similar comment on an article in The Star recently, but I distinctly remember that before the 2016 season Mark Shapiro commented about the state of pitching depth at Triple A saying 'Right now we've got 5 starters named blank'. He was basically chastising AA, but I thought he had a point. The problem is that fast forward 8 years and nothing seems to have changed. Lack of starting pitching depth has been an ongoing problem. Sure we've traded some pitching prospects away, but our pitching development seems so poor that we have to rely on waiver wire retreads instead of dipping into the minors for reliever help. That seems to me to be a pretty damning indictment of this front office.
It could be a grim post-trade apocalypse pitching staff for sure. I made a similar comment on an article in The Star recently, but I distinctly remember that before the 2016 season Mark Shapiro commented about the state of pitching depth at Triple A saying 'Right now we've got 5 starters named blank'. He was basically chastising AA, but I thought he had a point. The problem is that fast forward 8 years and nothing seems to have changed. Lack of starting pitching depth has been an ongoing problem. Sure we've traded some pitching prospects away, but our pitching development seems so poor that we have to rely on waiver wire retreads instead of dipping into the minors for reliever help. That seems to me to be a pretty damning indictment of this front office.