My greatest concern is that we've seen the best of Fister that we're ever gonna see.

Could just be that his dominance was the result of his being able to reach for a little more, with his mechanics, and that little 'bit' extra might have been compromised with this injury.

one thing is certain, given his line of work his prognosis cannot be nearly as optimistic as for a desk jockey having the same affliction.

Once Fister starts throwing hard, the opportunity for re-injury worries me

Agreed.

That's priobably because the strength of our system is supposed to be starting pitching.

We pay market price for hitting, but we do have some depth in pitching.

Depth?

How long has Fister been sidelined now?.. and THEY STILL HAVE NOT found a competent fill in for him?

The "depth" is of a highly questionable, even suspect, nature.

I think it has more to do with dollar signs and zeros. Committing big bux to guys who only play every 4 or 5 games scares these people.

Is ju99 an alternate screen name of your or something?

No i didn't realize that i wasn't allowed to chip in on questions made to others. Is that a rule here?

No. You just seemed incredibly in lock step with the OP.

God why does everyone think I'm some sort of board na.zi?

I should just learn to shut up, I get myself into this all the time.

well, go back and read some of the exchanges we've had on the other threads. I'd ask you a question and itiger would answer it, or RKLEWIS would answer it, and it didn't prompt me to start calling 'doppleganger'...lol!

Sign CJ Wilson
Trade for Gio Gonzalez

Two things we could have tried to do instead of signing Prince Fielder.

Two things that would have had us, overall, more prepared to win a World Series.

I really wanted Gio Gonzalez. Although I wanted to trade Smyly for him, so we wouldn't have been much further than we are right now.

yeah, i was with ya on that.

he is doing very well for the Nats (as is CJ in LA)