Zduriencik, you would think, would indeed be pulling out all the stops -- perhaps including Bobby Valentine .... perhaps your V-Mart type move... and how does he fix SS if *not* Nakajima?
This is actually a concern of mine. We can't - CANNOT - rely only on the kids all working out to fix us. Bavasi was a terrible judge of player ability and he left us with very little immediately usable talent. I find myself doubting Saunders and Moore simply because Bavasi chose them and hung on to them.
But regardless, nobody wins with an entire roster of first and second year players, and some dirt-scrubs and last-year vets to fill out the back end. I'm pretty sure we proved that this year.
Which means Jack needs to spend his cash, whatever of it he's given, wisely. There is zero veteran leadership on this team. There are zero vet power bats for the MOTO. He's gonna have to find some. Pat Burrell is getting big props in SF for growing up and taking control of that clubhouse. We need a vet like that.
But we saw what happens when a GM HAS to make a splash. Bavasi did it once with Beltre and Sexson, and again with Bedard. I am at least comforted that Zdurienczik seems free-spending with the prospects he believes are not stars - and that he's been proven right a lot of the time.
I just worry that the need to add quality players might add more Figginses that we don't need, or more Sexson-like contracts. Jack gets to show us what he's learned about adding major league players this year. He's been good with judging the minor leaguers, and with the can't-miss Cliff Lee types, but we need quality vets who can play a full season as an above-average bat, and so far Jack has come up with exactly none of those for the lineup.
We need at least two to have a chance.
I wish him luck. If Nakajima is one he's definitely not gonna be leading the locker room in anything but he might be able to boost us a large amount on the field, which is one of our two problems.
They say winning cures all ills. I'd like us to prove that.
~G