07-21-2024, 11:43 PM
(07-21-2024, 10:51 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: To me, its like drafting in the 50's. Do we really care about late seconds and 15th players on the roster?
If that's all it is, no argument. That guy would be insurance (Dinwiddie), OR insurance with some potential developmental upside (DSJ or THT). No issues.
I just don't think that's all it is.
For one thing, I feel almost 100% sure that Morris will be the last guy on the roster. I guess we don't know that FGump's "cushion" is even a thing, let alone his $1 million target for it, but I agree with the logic of it, so I'm low-key frightened that doing something like this might require more than just releasing the non-guaranteed year of Lawson. And, even if that is all they do (this guy replaces Lawson, Morris slides into the 15th slot), I really, really want to see Hardy in the rotation. I know that's not a popular opinion, but it's what makes sense to me.
Stein's words "desperately searching" and even just that this seems to be a real consideration have me low-key worried that they're going too far into "win-now" mode. Green is gone now in favor of a 34 year old (I'm ok with that, in a vacuum), and now it really seems like they're trying to give themselves a way not to play Hardy.