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Originally Posted by eazyb81
You're ignoring many other options, including:
1) keeping Melky this year;
2) increasing our multi-year contract offer to him;
3) trading him for someone who didn't end up being the worst pitcher in the league.
I sure would have liked Cabrera's 3.3 WAR this year over Frenchy's -0.9. No one held a gun to Moore's head and told him to trade Cabrera instead of Frenchy.
At what point does the fanbase stop making excuses for why Dayton Moore fucked up?
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1) This would have been fine, though trading from a (seeming) surplus is good baseball roster management, most of the time.
2) Could have done that, but would have been roundly mocked if Cabrera was offered a Gordon-like contract.
3) Teams were not beating down the door for Melky. He was available at the deadline last year and no one really wanted him.
I won't make excuses for Moore on a lot of the things he's done, but when he's being criticized for something that 99 percent of baseball thought was a good move at the time, something that almost every exec in his situation would have done, I'll defend that.
No one saw this coming for Cabrera. No one. Heck, no one even really saw Cabrera duplicating his efforts from last year.