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The major complaint I've had about Zduriencik is that he hasn't been able to add the veteran bat(s) that we need. We've been through a ton of placeholders (I made a list on another thread that included the luminaries like Cust, Bradley, Griffey, etc) but almost none of them have made any kind of (positive) impact.
Jack's one long-term deal was for Figgins, who promptly threw up his liver on the field and thereafter was just a ghost of himself.
Jack knows we don't have a real power OF who could come off the farm in the next couple of years (unless Peguero gets Lasik, I guess) so he tried to trade for one in a long-term solution and couldn't land him.
So rather than overpaying for a vet who might fail at a high price, we went the 1-year option again, except with far better hitters than we've tried it with before. Morse is no Cust.
If you're bad at something, then limit the amount of damage you can do to yourself when attempting it.
Conversely, Jack has always been GREAT at adding minor league talent. He could have coughed it up and has not done so (though he did offer to with Upton - how serious a play that was is up for debate). If he's supposed to get a winning record this year in order to keep his job, and doesn't want to flush the minors a la Bavasi in an effort to make that happen, then check that box off.
Now we just need all this talent to turn into production.
No more up-in-Smoak performances.
~G