Post by INVINCIBLE 2023 Fantasy Champ on Sept 25, 2022 23:18:07 GMT
I'll close by honestly saying, I am being a bit hyperbolic, but I still firmly contend with any semi-decent GM our accomplishments would have been the same. A good GM would have seen us at the top of the table because they'd have given Schmetzer a stronfee roster.
Even I can't be that hard on him.
The reality is we went from irrelevance to MLS champions to CONCACAF champs during his reign. Yes, a lot of that is Schmetzer, but a lot of it is also seriously upping our transfers. Remember Shalrie Joseph, Gspurning, Tiffert, and Traore? Remember drafting Andrew Duran, a man who never played an MLS minute, when Dom Dwyer was still on the board AS A GENERATION ADIDAS PICK??
Lagerwey was great when spending real money on Lodeiro, Ruidiaz, and JP (although that deal was structured stupidly). Draft picks were as good as could be expected; Cristian Roldan was a masterstroke. He was also able to get bargain players who were instrumental in our success like Torres, Kim, VRod, Leerdam, Jones, Goose, etc. My beef with him was always the lies to the fan base, goofy use of the third DP spot, and refusal to push Hanauer to spend, not with who he was actually bringing in.
But yes, everything started collapsing in 2019 and it's clear Lagerwey has given up. As Ariana Grande would say, thank u, next.
