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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Re: Melky/Sanchez...
Last thing I'll say on that topic is that it's easy to look back now and say they should have known something was wrong with Sanchez, or they should have evaluated and known Cabrera was going to continue to be good while Sanchez was never going to bounce back.
But... Sanchez cleared medical evals just fine (there's nothing structurally wrong with his shoulder/elbow/forearm)
Cabrera was an extreme risk factor. He'd just done something he'd never done before - hell, something he'd never come close to doing before - and few believed he would replicate his 2011 performance, let alone surpass it.
Both were high-risk, high-reward. The Giants just got the good end of it.
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Isn't Moore paid handsomely to be correct on calls like this though?
If he misses this badly on his player evaluations (and lets not pretend this is an outlier and he's been a great GM otherwise), shouldn't that be a sign that he's not good at his job?
I agree the trade seemed like a good gamble on paper, but the results are all that matter.