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Hard to blame him for either though. Both fell off a cliff as soon as they signed.

Winning in a loaded AL East with no second wildcard and an uncompetitive payroll was a ridiculous task. Him and AA worked in two very different contexts.

Ricciardi was a good GM. You were like 5 when he left.

Almost every player on Clevelands's roster was either drafted or acquired as a prospect. What killed him was that Cleveland's payroll hasn't left the bottom-10 in 13 years, and often sat bottom-5. He was basically given Friedman's TB mandate. If Rogers is going to have payroll in the bottom-5, he's probably not going to be very successful. But AA wouldn't have been able to function in that context either.

Rentals in general are inefficient wastes of assets.

Shapiro needs to make splash with an 8-year Donaldson extension.

It's very possible that these guys just don't like each other. They've had a business relationship for 6+ years now. One, or both, could have been aware they wouldn't gel. I highly doubt this has anything to do with one meeting.

I'm in Toronto mid-November. Can you host?

No, it isn't. He said the shine of the trade was lessened by the fact that the money didn't actually get reinvested into the on-field product. He didn't blame that on AA.

AA probably had free reign to to whatever he wanted under Beeston, who probably couldn't have named 10 players outside of Toronto. I'm assuming he hated the idea of being second in command when it comes to actual player decisions.

f*** yes. Hurl, we're back buddy.

O2...

You can also lol at the fact that he probably lives in the Midwest.

Works for St. Louis

Huge outing from Cueto to give the pen a rest. Looking good for KC.

Thought it would be interesting to take a quick and dirty look into the Marlins trade 3 years later because it's come up a lot over the last few days. Assuming a flat 7M/win over the three years because it's close enough. In Buehrle = 8.4 RA-9 WAR, 43.5M salary = 15.3M surplus value Reyes = 6.2 fWAR, 48M salary = -4.6M surplus value (through 2015) Johnson = 0.4 fWAR, 13.8M salary = -11M surplus value Bonifacio = who cares Buck = who cares total surplus value acquired = about 0M. Out Escobar = 5.6 fWAR, 15M salary = 24.2M surplus value Alvarez = 4.2 fWAR, 6M salary = 25.2M surplus value Desclafani = 3.3 fWAR, 1M salary = 22.1M surplus value Marisnick = 2.4 fWAR, 1.5M salary = 15.3M surplus value Hechavarria = 1 fWAR, ~4.25 salary = 2.75M surplus value (with pretty dubious defensive metrics) Nicolino = who cares Mathis = who cares total surplus value traded = about 90M + whatever Alvarez, Desclafani, Hechavarria, and Marisnick accrue over their remaining years of team control. So probably a net loss of value in the $100-150M range.

You're suggesting that objective evaluation of past moves should be thrown out the window because the team had a 93-win season?

That doesn't really mean anything.

That was definitely a concern. Johnson was one of the biggest injury risks in the league.

He's actually being 100% sarcastic.

I have no idea. I don't know the first thing about mechanics. He definitely has the pitch mix to succeed though.

Keeping Osuna in the pen would be a pretty defensible decision. Cashing in 1-2 win seasons over 60-70 high leverage innings is far from a worst-case outcome for him, and i the team is at all concerned about his mechanics they should leave him where he is.

You were very upset with me for saying the Tulo trade might not be a heist.

I'm the Bernie Sanders of mod candidates. Ahead of my time, and possibly a commie.

I'd like to amend my rule so that's it's not automatic. Someone (me) should get to decide. You, for example, should be banned monthly as a matter of course until the end of time.