Posted by tato526 on 3/21/2016 5:18:00 PM (view original):
I Am lost with the cream puff goals
I'll probably rework them. But there's a restriction separate from the goals. The Puffs have to overspend on some mediocre late-career Jason Bay or Cespedes type. For one of their goals, they have to take this mediocre fielding non-SS and stick him at SS long enough to win two games. He has to start those qualifying games for it to count, so errors could make the Puffs lose a bunch of games trying to win the two they need. It's a Wilpon king of thing to do: Pay big for a fourth OF and then realize in March that you don't have a shortstop.
The other goal forces a Wilpon-ish trade of whoever is the team's best major-league-ready pitching prospect, and they might not even get top value back because they have to trade him to someone.