The problem is I was told in freaking October payroll was going up. We had 4 holes on the team: LF, starting pitching depth, middle relief and SS.
AA decided to blow the whole wad on LF while lying the entire offseason about payroll. He could have had Alex Verdugo, Andrew Heaney, Brent Suter and Tommy Kahnle for maybe $2M more than what Profar got and this is a deeper, better baseball team. The problem is AA can’t work around the margins, which this season required with the payroll cut, and it’s showing.