Baseball, more than any other professional sport, is a game of delayed gratification. In football, when you draft a player, he’s able to be a starter in the very next season. In basketball, top draft picks are routinely studs, and the league is led by guys who have recently turned pro.
In baseball, prospects marinate for years and years before they’re ready for the pros. That waiting time can be excruciating, and is filled with boring stopgaps, mediocre seasons, and 7-2 losses, the most boring score.
For a team in baseball purgatory, there’s little a team to do.