{2023 Thread Bumped} Underhill Giving No Quarter to Nick Wright

new city champ said
My exit comment on this interesting thread is more of a concern than an observation and one based more on general human nature than hard facts.

There is at least some chance that these decisions by Loomis are short-medium term gambits because Mickey knows he's not going to be around to have to clean things up. That will be somebody else's problem. So while he's running the ship, Loomis is happy to mortgage the future to some extent to help his chances to succeed in the present before he retires. Seen that way of thinking in business and politics often...

That feels like a somewhat cynical take. The simpler explanation in my mind is he and the front office want to work to sustain some of the level of success they've had over the last 15+ years. In order to keep the team competitive in the short term, he's leveraging player contracts to try and sustain that success over not just the short term, but also medium and long term.

I'm not in his shoes though, so I could be wrong, but he just doesn't seem like a guy who would intentionally hurt the team's longer term goals.