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Originally Posted by eazyb81
You keep saying this but you really have no clue if it's true. Did you conduct a survey of everyone in baseball?
"Everyone" also roundly mocked Moore for signing Frenchy. Can we blame him yet for that brilliant acquisition or is too early? What about Yuni Betancourt, who might literally be the worst position player in the game? We acquired him not once, but twice.
Clearly Brian Sabean thought Cabrera was capable of a repeat performance. But he has a WS ring so I guess he is content to not just go with what "everyone" else thinks about player evaluation.
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Everyone - hyperbole on my part, I admit. The press reaction to the trade - including reaction from scouts - was either positive or neutral. That's part of where my perception on this comes from. The other part... I talk regularly with some people who are still "in" the sports-writing industry (occasionally as a scouting source but more often just shooting the sh*t) that speak to a lot of execs and etc. Again, reaction was either positive or neutral. So it really should be "Everyone I talked to."
I think I mentioned this below, but the treatment of Francouer and Betancourt is maddening - and much more frustrating than Cabrera to me. Baseball execs are going to make mistakes. Lots of them. The key is taking action to rectify the mistake once it is clear.
I was fine/neutral on signing Francouer. I'm NOT fine/neutral on insisting to run him out there every day when it apparently blocks the best hitting prospect in baseball.
One year of Betancourt was fine with me, assuming he was a utility infielder and platoon style player against good lefties. Playing him every day is asinine (even though he's been better that I expected, at least with the bat), and I think it's past time to give Gio another shot/real shot.