what a wonderful self-fulfilling prophecy: this team sucks bad, so it makes sense that we spent no money on free agents to improve it.
how is that not the same argument that can be made this winter? we are not ready to spend because - you guessed it - the team sucks bad, in part because we spent no money on free agents to improve it.
Harris has a 2023 payroll less than the major league average and is $13M less than last year when they had a historically bad offense.
as a a fan, it is NOT my job to correctly identify the players that can help this team in free agency, the draft, through trades, Rule 5 draft or any other way. Harris and Co. are paid - literally - millions of dollars to do that.
what would this team look like with Jean Segura, Wil Myers and Brian Anderson? I have no effing clue!
solutions are NOT coming from the farm. Through 2024, Keith might be up as a major league starter.
but everyone else (Malloy, Meadows, Jung, ...) looks like more of what we have a lot of (outside of Green and maybe Baez): 1-2 WAR bench, platoon, and complimentary guys.
I also see you stopped referencing the Rangers pointless FA spending spree in the winter of 2021, now that they are in 1st place.