Interesting to see that most Dodgers fans seem to like this deal. What I'm wondering is whether the excitement is for this year or for the future? Gonzalez is obviously a huge upgrade, and I can see Beckett being successful in the NL for at least short stints. So in the short term this gives them a better chance of making a run this year.
But is there excitement about the long term as well? it's funny b/c Sox fans perspectives are so jaded at this point that I think most of us consider Beckett a case of addition by subtraction, and Crawford is irrelevant. He hasn't played, and won't play for a long time - and when he has played he's been pretty awful. The player that dominated games for the Rays is long gone, from our perspective. But maybe there's even hope that he could turn it around?
I don't know, I guess I'm just looking for the Dodgers fans' perspectives on why this makes sense beyond this year. If you have tons of money to spend wouldn't you want it to be spent on guys who have potential to get better as time goes by--instead of Ramirez, Beckett, Crawford etc? Not trying to be a d*ck, it's an honest question b/c the reactions have been more positive than I would have anticipated.
