http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/25/the-notion-of-being-mired-in-mediocrity/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/25/the-notion-of-being-mired-in-mediocrity/#comment-1454 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:03:17 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=4093#comment-1454 The root cause for demise of this organization is Reinsdorf. His refusal to make changes in the front office and sticking with status quo, allowed the mediocrity to swell and grow like cancer within the entire organization. This includes from not spending money on the draft for almost a decade, to not allocating better resources for elite free agents and not embracining sabermetics as the rest of MLB has. Agree that a rebuild is needed and would be welcomed. But a total rebuild from top to bottom is what called for at this point. But I don’t trust Reinsdorf or anyone from his group to bring in the right personnel to make the right decisions. Mediocrity will rein as long as Reinsdorf and his ownership group remain.

]]> http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/07/25/the-notion-of-being-mired-in-mediocrity/#comment-1450 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 21:29:32 +0000 http://southside.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=4093#comment-1450 If the front office remains the same, I predict we’ll see the same floundering and smokescreen dishonesty, whether it’s a total rebuild or not. I could be wrong. The Larry Himes rebuild that began in ’87 was a great success, although once the team became good, JR fired Himes.

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