If JB does not flip these “place holders”, providing they are worth something at the time and the IR isn’t overly full of bodies, I will hop off this fence and take up a pitchfork and jeer this management, as they’d deserve.
This TDL better had provide for an exceedingly fruitful aqusition of picks/prospects after consecutive stays at the draft podium with a less than desirable purse. Last TDL was the Orca finally coming up for air. This one better be as good or better because “the plan” that I hear JB has been sticking to willl be exposed for the Swiss cheese-like strategy is has been mocked of, for years running.
This leaky vessel of managerial wonder will run aground if JB doesn’t start to cull the roster and trade what he can. Coincidentally, when he does nothing for the roster, it works out best too, so I give up on this strategy, but sure like some of the previous few picks they did have and used.
Hutton, Barcheese, Virtanen, Gaunce (I’d have kept pizza over Gaunce), etc., these are all mediocre, young, trade-bait types. JB better find some playoff warriors to exchange these parts with, though I am in no hurry to see Virtanen go. My worry is that this insulating support group for the emerging core, at glacial speed it seems, is not the type of players built for the playoffs. Why keep them then? Why not begin the process of trading for the best role players? I expect there to be opposing thoughts and opinions on this, but I hope we can agree on the roster vision and what type of players win cups.