The Dodgers just acquired Chris Heisey regardless of the fact they have 4 big money outfielders and prospects knocking on the door.
It's about depth bruh. Last year we had Jamie Romak, Miguel Rojas, Carlos Truinfel, and I'm sure some other terrible option filling in when our regulars went down. Having Barney and Heisey are supposed to improve the overall depth of the team so we're not relying on some career minor leaguer come summer time.
With the current roster it doesn't make a ton of sense, but we'll see. It feels like this might be a precursor to another trade, most likely something involving Kemp or Joc (or both). Either way, Heisey is a more typical 4th OFer than anyone we currently have.
Let's blindly defend the new guys, they are geniuses. I'm overjoyed at our new depth. World Series, here we come!
i'm growing impatient as well i'm sure guessing our front office has a plan, but until they do something even moderately significant, we don't really know what those plans/goals are so i'm trying as best i can (with not much luck) to remain patient now if the winter meetings pass, and we still have the same team ullhair: and no... nicasio/ogando/heisey/martin/bolsinger/barney do not qualify as moderately significant
It's funny, the more I think about this, the more I love this trade. Friedman went and got us a guy who can play all outfield positions, most importantly, he can play Center and play it well. We had no true Center Fielder, and it's pretty obvious we needed one. Puig/Ethier/SVS in CF obviously doesn't work.
good points d and let's say joc/heisey play center and puig moves back to right... leaving kemp unhappy and/or ineffective in left... makes a little more sense why the front office might be shopping him
The Heisey signing is the classic "what-if" signing. There's a difference between a crowded outfield and an effective one. We don't know if Joc is ready, and frankly, even though we're talking small sample size, I didn't see anything that impressed me. He was hesitant when he needed to be aggressive, and looked nervous and raw out there. Compare that to the instant impact Puig had on the team. I think Friedman needs to have options open to (a) provide trade flexibility if Joc doesn't work out, and/or they want to package Kemp and Crawford. SVS might be able to play left to fill in, Heisey might step in, and we might either get needed bullpen help, and other SP or possibly a SS that can field and/or hit. That being said, what I'm concerned about is that last year we had a team that could hit and score runs in spurts (although clutch hits are lacking.....but clutch is difficult to "acquire".....Sandoval could stink all year long and still be clutch, do we want that?) We had decent starting pitching (albeit Kershaw had a brain fart for two games....yet we were one bad bullpen away from being tied going into at 5th game with Greinke starting at home....I'd take that any day). Our problem was a haphazard and inconsistent bullpen. Now, with Hanely gone, we have a hole in the lineup, no really good answer at SS, might be losing Crawford in LF, a bench player in Ethier, no improvement in catcher, and no improvement in SP or bullpen help to show for it. So again, WHAT IS THE PLAN?
Can they get another manager for depth? That would be cool...when DBB sucks, (how soon will it take actually?), sit Donnie down a few months. Maybe he can be our catcher. The Dodgers are innovators right? Always have been...let's push the envelope. Can't get worse than 0-26 years. What's one more chef throwing some BS ingredient in the stew? There's more than enough now; one more doesn't matter.
Uh...trade Kemp, increasing the hole to an even larger degree. But maybe prospects will be good...better than the guy who should have been MVP and pretty much we don't get to the NLDS to lose in 4 without... makes too much also. Catcher is not a problem I have been told; "the team will pick up these guys that can't hit their weight". Didn't you read that we got Peralta for the BP? He's got to be better than...uh...Perez, right? And the SP situation will all be taken care of soon I read...and, well...you know what? You're right....WTF is the plan?
You're right...it's depth move. No problem...it's OK in theory, definitely. It just made me think of depth in manager...I guess that's what bench coach is. But like everyone says, "can't be too deep"...
