You said "he chose not to throw money at the problem."
With the staff he had when, exactly?
I mean, if your point is that he shouldn't have stopped at spending over $200M on an ace and non-trivial talent costs for two top relievers, OK, but implying that he decided to stand pat on pitching last winter is alternate-universe stuff.
You're right, I should have said "more" money. If you think I'm trying to say he "stood pat" on the pitching staff, when obviously he spent on Price and traded for Kimbrel and Smith, then you're not reading my words or I'm not typing them effectively. And I think I clearly have stated I'm talking about the rotation.
To be clear - the post I responded to was blaming BC for the pitching staff. DD has been the GM for close to a calendar year now. He made the choice to go into the season relying on Clay and Kelly (and the AAA fodder behind them). You can't blame him for ERod getting hurt, but you also can't give him credit for Wright, so those wash out in my opinion. Ymmv.
Clay is what he is. He's hurt and good, or healthy and sucks. Not a new development.
Kelly looked good his final handful of starts last year and was a decent gamble. It crapped out.
Either way - right, wrong or indifferent - the pitching staff is the direct result of DD's decisions in the offseason.
It is not the result of anything BC did, which is what I was replying to. If you want to cherry pick and ignore the rather obvious and stated point - and make it seem like I am suggesting he fiddled while Rome burned - knock yourself out.
But yes, he could have signed another starter with more reliability or made another trade. There's a perfectly reasonable argument to be made that he should or should not have. That's not my point.
My point is and was that the current state of pitching is not to be laid on the shoulders of Ben Cherington. It is Dave Dombrowski that is responsible, as he was the one running the show and could do what he wanted. He chose this staff and its results are his to own. There were avenues to address it and he didn't. That was a choice he made - a reasonable one - but not something he was forced into by his predecessor.