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Originally Posted by KevB
But, what if he's being told not to add material $ to payroll right now? What if he wanted Edwin Jackson in the off-season but Glass wouldn't allow it? We're never going to hear about that, because the underlings aren't going to bite the hand that feeds.
I have no idea if that is or isn't happening, but it's plausible. There's clearly a systemic problem with the organization, and at this point blame has to fall at the feet of the owner, period. [Not that there isn't enough blame to be spread around of course]
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Wishing someone would make move A or move B isn't criticizing Moore, necessarily. Most of the criticism is about the moves he does make, when there are moves he can make INTERNALLY within the organization that are just so stupuidly obvious and BETTER, yet he still sticks to his guns.
Example A.
Everyone and their mother complained about the frenchy signing a year and half ago. He has a good year, and people think... he found an acorn... Dayton runs out and signs his guy that had an above average year for a ridiculously bad contract extension... everyone starts bitching again.
The only way he could screw up the Frenchy acquisition after the year he had was to do what he did and put Frenchy in a position (with the contract) to force the fans and organization to have even more elevated expectations from him.
Frenchy fails, and he fails badly... now we're stuck. He's the face of Marketing, they've got promotions surrounding the guy, and he's the worst statistcal every-day player in the Majors (even with Yuni still in the big leagues). There is a phenom knocking on the door being blocked by this guy.
Dayton has pissed down his leg through this whole ordeal.. and this is just with ONE FREAKING PLAYER. The errors in judgement are all over the place.
- Yuni.
- Yuni a second time.
- I try not to give Dayton a difficult time on the Sanchez trade because no one saw that coming. But you still have to take it into consideration.
- Vin Mazzaro
- Kyle Davies
- Sean O'Sullivan
- Brian Bannister
Note: These last 4 pitchers are guys Dayton TRADED FOR... he went out and got from another organization because he wanted them.
This list can go on endlessly.
Dayton is a very, very bad GM.