Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
No - he really isn't.
Here's his track record of late:
All contracts in excess of $5 million over the last 10 years:
2012
Ty Wigginton 2 years, 5 million
Randy Choate 3 years, 7.5 million
Jake Westbrook, 1 year, 9.75 million
Yadier Molina, 5 years 75 million
2013
Jason Motte, 2 years, 12 million
Allen Craig, 5 years 31 million
Adam Wainwright, 5 years 97.5 million
Jhonny Peralta, 4 years, 53 million
2014
Matt Carpenter, 6 years, 52 million
Jordan Walden, 2 years, 6.6 million
2015
Lance Lynn, 3 years, 23.5 million
Jon Jay, 2 years, 11 million
Mike Leake, 5 years, 80 million
2016
Brandon Moss, 1 year, 8.25 million
Trevor Rosenthal, 1 year, 5.6 million
Brett Cecil, 4 years, 30.5 million
Dexter Fowler, 5 years, 82.5 million
2017
Carlos Martinez, 5 years, 51 million
Yadier Molina, 3 years, 60 million
Miles Mikolas, 2 years, 15.5 million
Luke Gregerson, 2 years, 11 million
2018
Macell Ozuna, 1 year, 9 million
Paul DeJong, 6 years, 26 million
Greg Holland, 1 year, 14 million
Andrew Miller, 2 years, 25 million, 12 million option
2019
Marcell Ozuna, 1 year, 12.25 million
Miles Mokolas, 4 years, 68 million
Paul Goldschmidt, 5 years, 130 million
Matt Carpenter, 2 years, 39 million with vesting option
Adam Wainwright, 1 year, 5 million
Kwang-hyun Kim, 2 years, 8 million
Adolis Garcia traded to Tex for cash considerations (Just throwing that in there)
2020
St Louis declined 12.5 million option for Kolten Wong
Andrew Miller vested 12 million dollar option
How many of those worked out? Carpenter's first deal (which was immediately immolated by the worst extension ever). A couple of the later Wainwright deals. Maybe Jon Jay for a year before we had to dump him?
Look at that array of shit. He's, what, $400 million underwater there in terms of the value the team got out of those guys over what they'd have been able to get internally? Or by not trading away guys that were cheaper/more effective?
He's a BAD general manager. He's done a bad job building this team. The only reason anyone has EVER thought he was worth a shit was the work that Luhnow did in re-stocking the 2010ish era Cardinals and now some of the key picks Flores has made.
Mike Shildt made chicken salad out of this roster for 162 games and Mozeliak axed him for it.
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