Dan and Buck's "Next Man Up" strategy is kind of amazing

[wildcard]

Hardy goes down: Cabrera is next man up

Wieters can't start the season: Joseph is ready and there are three guys with majors league experience fighting over the backup spot.

The Tampa's announcer today was talking about Webb making 2.75M being sent to AAA. His comment - Its good if you can do it.

Wow

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2015/03/duquette-on-whether-os-need-shortstop-we-signed-one-just-before-camp-opened.html

[brianod]

We were better than the Royals with Chris Davis. Next man up isn't a strategy. It is putting lipstick on a pig. We lost Nick and Cruz, Wieters and Hardy are out. It's nice to have good backups but there is nothing amazing about any of them

[brianod]

oops, i meant to say, with Davis and Machado

[CA-ORIOLE]

We were better than the Royals with Chris Davis and Machado. Next man up isn't a strategy. It is putting lipstick on a pig. We lost Nick and Cruz, Wieters and Hardy are out. It's nice to have good backups but there is nothing amazing about any of them

Yeah, building quality depth is a strategy. "Amazing" or not.

[Nevermore]

Yeah, building quality depth is a strategy. "Amazing" or not.

It's a fact of baseball life. Players get injured or else fail to perform. That's why good backups are necessary for a winning team. Remember, the Os won the East without Davis, Machado, and Wieters. They also won the ALDS. I'd say that they did pretty well with "next man up."

[El Gordo]

If none of our starters could play this would be our back up team:

Lavarnway C

Pearce 1B'

Flaherty 2B

Cabrera SS

Navarro 3B

Reimold LF

Paredes DH

Lough CF

Alverez RF

Won't get us to the WS but not bad.

[Frobby]

What's probably more amazing is that we made insufficient efforts to do this before Dan Duquette arrived. It's kind of an obvious thing to do, but we weren't doing it. I look at some of the backups we had -- heck, even starters we had -- and shudder. Dan's team knows how to find decent talent that is cheap; Andy's team didn't.

[mdbdotcom]

If none of our starters could play this would be our back up team:

Lavarnway C

Pearce 1B'

Flaherty 2B

Cabrera SS

Navarro 3B

Reimold LF

Paredes DH

Lough CF

Alverez RF

Won't get us to the WS but not bad.

Better, at least defensively, than some teams we put on the field during the Dark Era.

[Camden_yardbird]

If none of our starters could play this would be our back up team:

Lavarnway C

Pearce 1B'

Flaherty 2B

Cabrera SS

Navarro 3B

Reimold LF

Paredes DH

Lough CF

Alverez RF

Won't get us to the WS but not bad.

I would include Caleb in there.

[weams]

What's probably more amazing is that we made insufficient efforts to do this before Dan Duquette arrived. It's kind of an obvious thing to do, but we weren't doing it. I look at some of the backups we had -- heck, even starters we had -- and shudder. Dan's team knows how to find decent talent that is cheap; Andy's team didn't.

Remember how we signed Chris Gomez? And then lost him?

[mdbdotcom]

Remember how we signed Chris Gomez? And then lost him?

But then we got him back.

[weams]

But then we got him back.

And he still wasn't good.

[mdbdotcom]

And he still wasn't good.

But he had a cool name, though not nearly as cool as Woody Held. Remember Woody Held getting thrown out at Memorial Stadium trying to stretch a triple into a home run? Then there was Ed Temple. Saw him in a cow milking contest in-between games of a Friday twi-night double header. Utility players should add a little personality to the team. Maybe Flash should get himself a personality transplant.

[birrman54]

We gave Brandon Fahey 250AB in 2006

[Frobby]

And he still wasn't good.

Chris Gomez was okay, and he was on Beattie and Flanny's watch. How about the SS merry go round of 2008? Garrett Atkins?