Dagagad

Its been obvious for years that this isn't a smart front office especially in the context of this division.

It is absolutely imperative that the front office that trades Vlad and Bo is not this front office. They have shown no talent at picking prospects or being able to develop them.

Fire the entire front office and start again. Trade vlad and bo right now to start it if you have to.

He'll be there ten years next december.

We don't need a people person. We need people who can build a development system and then acquire talent that we can develop. He's not bad at soft skills, he's bad at core skills. Just because he's bad at social skills does not mean he is smart.

Atkins genius is convincing fans he is smart when he isn't. Great.. he understands team control. So does everyone else. His FO cannot identify talent that they can develop. They are a mediocre ass front office that runs a pretty high pay roll. Should have been gone. Should be replaced now so that when we do have to trade vlad and bo, its done by a competent person.

We did this before and are now married to 9 years ongoing of the two guys from cleveland who can't do pitching. Maybe go for the guy who fell into our laps and be ready to fire fast as a change of pace.

I didn't say he is a pitching dev savant. He's available so he allows us to not let atkins to make any more dumb decisions. He also had an important role in two of the smartest franchises in baseball. He should know who to hire. Take a hard look in two years and see what we have coming, and our development, and then unlike atkins fire him if you need to.

Atkins has been here nine years and years ago on here people were telling me its too soon to know if we could develop pitching, you have to wait for the lab and so on. Click has been here a year and six months and he is not the boss, and he should have solved this? Ridiculous.

Hopefully, this is what happened.

I would just give Click the job, let him handle the trade deadline (which i think was an important deadline) and then he can hire his guys during the summer.

I kind of checked out waiting for Atkins to get fired and it almost feels like he won't be. It was so obvious so early that they can't develop pitching (they are from cleveland!) and should have been gone when that was obvious. He is so fake smart. Yes, we have all heard about team control. It was the cutting edge 15 years ago. Not good enough in this division.

I think the thought process of which catcher gets more is flawed if that is how the FO approached it. Moreno obviously has a ceiling (and to me it was obvious at the time) that could effect a teams window. A long term under control elite catching prospect is a prize. If the front office went into it thinking who is available that fits what we need, and will they take one of our catchers.. that’s already a weak bargaining position. I think they overrate control except the one time it absolutely really matters. I’m not even saying that Varsho is a bad player. He’s obviously very valuable but Moreno isn’t the kind of chip you use there. It also violated just the rule of common sense that trading for a guy right after a big breakout season for a top prospect who just had a little shine taken off by his first exposure to the bigs….might end up backfiring.

The Moreno trade where just doing what the rays would have done and trading Jansen would have made way more sense.

If this is literally true, he should be fired tomorrow.