Bars - I always appreciate your statistical insight. I haven't spent the time I should have learning them and I always get something I didn't know out of your posts.

Do you think they might have said to themselves, "we aren't going to win yet but we need to appease the fans. What do fans want? Home runs. Let's get a lot of those."

They didn't really leverage our future to construct this current team so it might be a "no harm no foul" in two years when the prospects replace all these guys we just got. Even Crane has to admit that without fans this is just a hot dog recycling facility with a company softball team.