What you just hit upon without saying it is that the injury that really hurt was Greg Reynolds. That was the contingency plan. He was the insurance for the starting rotation, so when he went down it was as big a blow to the ML roster depth as losing Rodrigo or Hirsh.
I'm all for depth and making moves that make you better, Newman. I just don't think it's helpful to criticize in the abstract when there is nothing abstract about roster moves and deadline trades.
If you want to criticize DOD or anyone else for not adding a quality starter at the deadline, that's absoutely your prerogative. But be fair about it. Rather than referring to some amorphous "veteran arm" or "#3 starter type" tell us exactly who you would have brought in. Which veteran starter that was available at this year's deadline would you have liked to see in Rockies' pinstripes? And beyond that, let's see you make the case that acquiring him would have been worth the price in terms of the talent that we would have had to surrender to get him.
If you're unwilling, or unable, to do that then the whole conversation is kind of moot. I know you're going to slam me for being a Monfort apologist or defender of DOD, but that's really and truly not what I'm trying to do here. I'm just expressing my earnestly held opinion, which happens to differ from yours. That's it...
|