I think Arnold has had a really really awful year as GM. He traded arguably the best pitcher in baseball two weeks before the season starts for an extremely mediocre, if not lousy return. Why not hold on to Burnes at that point and he either a) helps the 2024 team win a pennant, or b) wait until the trade deadline and get a much better return? We should either be a legit World Series contender with Burnes, or received a king’s ransom at this year’s trade deadline. Instead we got neither and now we’re stuck in no man’s land. He followed that up with adding a bunch of reclamation projects at the deadline instead of legitimately trying to help the team win a division. It’s very frustrating as a fan.