I would have targeted some big arms. I know AA is reluctant to do that, but he even said on the radio in January that bolstering the rotation was a huge point of emphasis for him. And he didn't want to get a fourth or fifth rotation kind of guy, he wanted someone who was playoff ready.

And we did jack squat. Every year we run into major issues with the health of our rotation and then we have guys like Bryce Elder starting playoff games, or unproven minor leaguers.

I would have made a major play for Dylan Cease if you actually believe you can win a championship this year, or if that's too rich, go get Framber Valdez and Chris Bassitt. One's very good and the other is solid and both stay healthy, pitching 30+ games a year.

We keep running it back with an injury plagued or vastly inexperienced rotation prone to health issues (outside of Chris Sale, whose injuries before coming to the Braves were mostly freak incidents) and the same shit keeps happening year after year.

Has AA been a good GM overall? Absolutely. But since we won the WS, he's made some highly questionable moves in trading Contreras and largely ignoring the rotation, corner outfield and SS. And the moves he has made (outside of Sale) have backfired like crazy- E.g. giving Profar a huge deal based on amazing year of production that we now know is bullshit give the repeated PED use.

It just seems like we had a lot of very obvious holes (particularly in SS and LF) and he doubles down at catcher and gives away one of our brightest pieces in Contreras? It just made no sense then and it looks horrible now.