Let me be clear, I am not down on most of Eppler’s moves this off-season. Trevor Cahill is cool, I guess. Harvey is fine or whatever. I have made it known that I like Bour. La Stella is pretty good at getting on base. It’s been a very bland and bleak winter overall, but the prerogative does not lie in the pieces we’ve attained.
The real problem is that the front office has fallen into a pattern of stopgapping. Everyone that gets signed has either one or two years left and is meant to “hold us over” until the prospects that Eppler has stockpiled can make it to the show.